Intercontinental Exchange (Ice)
Clearing house of the year: LCH.Clearnet
Risk awards 2012
Derivatives law firm of the year: Allen & Overy
Risk awards 2012
How the CCP location debate helped split the EU
Location, location, location
Middleware vendors face turf war with Sefs
Cutting out the middleware?
Block trade allocations: FCMs and CCPs prepare for new regime
Block around the clock
BofE's Tucker: weak CCP recovery plans risk mayhem
Panellists at an EC conference in Brussels this morning warned CCPs have made little progress on detailed survival plans - leaving the system exposed
CCP interoperability not achievable in near term, say clearers
CCP interoperability will not resolve fragmentation in the OTC markets, say panellists at Isda Europe conference in London
Obstacles facing dealers' dream of a global OTC data repository
The database race
CME, Ice to launch repositories rivalling the DTCC
Banks have picked the DTCC to build a series of new derivatives repositories, but overlooked rivals CME and Ice vow to fight on
Risk waterfall at CME, Ice makes porting harder, dealers say
The need to provide portability could pressure CCPs to lean more heavily on initial margin than default funds to absorb losses
SunGard’s Jackson moves to ICE
Ben Jackson, formerly senior executive vice-president of energy and commodities at technology vendor SunGard, has taken up a new role at the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)
Lamb discusses CME Clearing Europe's goals
A clear goal
CFTC defends clearing membership capital requirement
Commissioners argue open access is necessary, but might consider raising the $50 million minimum for CCP membership at the end of the consultation period
Energy Risk Exchange of the Year Award: IntercontinentalExchange
Exchange of the Year: IntercontinentalExchange
Dodd-Frank puts market manipulation on the radar
Dodd-Frank regulation could usher in more market manipulation cases such as the recent CFTC case against Arcadia Petroleum, Arcadia Energy and Parnon Energy, say market experts
Algorithmic trading will come to coal and natural gas, says exchange president
When coal and gas futures reach the liquidity levels of oil, algorithmic traders will enter the marketplace
Brent-WTI spread broken: analyst
Brent-WTI spread causes concerns about oil benchmarks to resurface; Ice and Nymex defend use for futures contracts
CFTC proposal sparks scrap over CCP membership
CFTC proposal sparks row over CCP membership
The debate over CCP central bank liquidity
The liquidity access debate
Last-minute power plant hedging will push up carbon prices
Prices for European Union carbon allowances (EUAs) will rise sharply in 2012 as companies hurry to hedge their emissions compliance requirements by the end of that year.
MarkitServ updates novation process after two-month delay
Middleware provider MarkitServ now in line with industry standard - two months after initially planned and more than three months after rival Ice Link.