Asset Classes Archive

Nomura will develop new fixed income indices as part of new collaboration with S&P Dow Jones Indices, based on the Japanese investment bank's Bond Performance Index. read more>

Post-trade solutions provider Omgeo has launched a new tool that lets firms maximise their existing asset inventory for collateral when trading, ahead of new OTC derivatives rules. read more>

Barclays has introduced a 'toxicity framework' to its LX dark pool that it claims makes predatory trading easier to identify. read more>

Bloomberg today qualified its earlier announcement that it would set up a futures exchange if the Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed to amend an "arbitrary and capricious" rule it says penalises OTC swaps at the expense of futures trades. read more>

Asset managers' reliance on advice from third-party vendors and clearing brokers as they prepare for new swaps reporting and trading regimes could lead to significant compliance delays, an expert has warned. read more>

First-quarter figures for block trading venue Liquidnet have shown institutional investors in Europe again trading equities in size. The firm's Europe chief attributed the resurgence to regional stabilisation. read more>

Australia's new listed derivatives venue FEX Futures Exchange is set to launch mid-year, after receiving regulatory approval to trade by the Government. read more>

The Singapore Exchange on Thursday signed an agreement with the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) to collaborate on the development of the two countries' derivatives markets. read more>

BNY Mellon has upgraded its collateral management portal to include a link to Pirum's tri-party automation service in a move it says will minimise post-trade and operational risks. read more>

The buy-side may reduce its risk hedging activities as a result of clearing requirements for OTC derivatives under the Dodd-Frank Act, which will capture asset managers for the first time in June, an expert has warned. read more>