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First snowfall trade cleared on CME
Choice Environmental, a portfolio company of OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH), has brokered the first CME-cleared snowfall hedging risk instrument – a snowfall binary option contract for Detroit.
CME accepts gold as collateral for trades
The clearing house of global exchange CME Group - CME Clearing - has announced it will now accept gold as collateral for trades on the exchange.
Exchanges disagree over position limits plan
The CME Group has pre-empted long-awaited action from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to implement position limits for energy trading, publishing its own suggestions for a regime.
US House Ags Committee reviews Treasury derivatives plan
Members of the US House Agriculture Committee voiced concerns today that government proposals for regulating over-the-counter derivatives would negatively affect end users.
CME calls for limits across markets
Chicago-based CME Group has published details of a proposed hard-limits regime, calling on all exchanges to adopt the same measures.
Derivatives exchange volumes still declining
Derivatives trading volumes continued to fall across several leading exchanges in July.
Ice clears €5.9 billion of CDSs in first week
Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange’s (Ice) European central clearing facility, Ice Clear Europe, has cleared €5.9 billion of credit default swap (CDS) index trades in its first week of operation.
New head for CME's proposed European clearing house
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has named Andrew Lamb as chief executive of its European clearing house, CME Clearing Europe, subject to regulatory approval of the venture.
Race against the clock for European CDS CCPs
With just two weeks remaining until the European Commission’s deadline for central counterparties (CCPs) to begin clearing credit default swaps (CDSs), two of the competing platforms are still waiting for regulatory approval.
NYSE Liffe’s CDS clearing platform in doubt
The central clearing service for credit default swaps (CDS) offered by London-based derivatives exchange NYSE Liffe is “under review”, an official at the firm told Risk .
Net benefit
Meant to minimise counterparty risk, the idea of clearing for credit derivatives has been riddled with questions from the outset. But new research suggests the plans might actually increase counterparty exposures. Mark Pengelly investigates
In the clear
The trend away from uncleared over-the-counter trading to cleared OTC trading has prompted exchanges to list a greater range of OTC cleared products. But to what extent can the OTC markets ever become completely cleared? Katie Holliday investigates
Ice clears $71 billion of CDSs
Atlanta-based derivatives exchange IntercontinentalExchange (Ice) has cleared $71 billion notional in credit default swaps (CDS) in the four weeks since the launch of its central clearing platform. The exchange cleared 613 transactions and reported open…
CME’s CDS platform approved
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) received the green light from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 13 to clear credit default swaps (CDSs), but now faces the hard task of getting customers to sign up to its platform.
CME Group one step closer to CDS clearing
US exchange operator Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group has come one step closer to entering the credit derivatives market by signing a deal to clear credit default swaps (CDSs) on financial information services company Markit's CDX and iTraxx…
All Clear?
Despite a recent large increase in volumes, clearing for commodities remains a contentious issue, with little agreement on what the best business model should be, and insufficient standardisation, say market participants. Rachel Morison investigates