Competition between the dominant futures exchange and the major securities exchanges is driven by two new factors -- the death of LIBOR and the competitive insignificance of trade matching. The death ...
As a former commodities trader, Kent Horsacker says he’d embrace an electronic exchange for indexed corn and soybean futures and options “in a heartbeat.” So far, however, not a lot of other people ...
Electronic platforms continue to gain market share in the trading of equity futures and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in both North America and the UK, says new research from Greenwich Associates.
CHICAGO - CME Group Inc confirmed on Tuesday that it will extend the trading session for grain and oilseed futures by five minutes starting next month as part of a transition to nearly all-electronic ...
Some people may think this story is coming late, but not from where we stand. In the first years after I started on the trading floor in 1978, most of the computers we used were just for doing recaps ...
A Tabb Group report finds that nearly 90 percent of all US buy-side firms are expected to route their futures trades through electronic channels in 2012. Electronic trading technology provider ...
CHICAGO--U.K.-based interdealer broker Icap will start electronic trading of exchange-listed futures contracts on its BrokerTec platform by the beginning of the fourth quarter, say Icap officials who ...
New head of electronic trading and digital strategy at Barclays will be responsible for driving the bank’s BARX offering, The TRADE can reveal. The former global head of futures and options electronic ...
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2004--R.J. O'Brien and Associates, Inc. (RJO), one of the oldest and largest futures commission merchants, today announced it has acquired Zap Futures, a large ...
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Metals futures continued to move lower in electronic trading on Thursday. March copper fell over 2% to 2.5940 cents a pound, gold futures eased $1.10 at $628.70 an ounce and ...
The Chicago Board of Trade announced that it enjoyed its highest daily trading volume in its 158-year history on Tuesday. Total exchange volume was 6,522,607 contracts, surpassing the previous ...