OTC Derivatives

UK electronic trading tools provider FFastFill has bought 100% of Exchange Technology, an Australian middle-office software vendor.

Pension funds, fund managers and hedge funds are increasingly using commodity derivatives to diversify their portfolios, according to a new study.

Eurex, the European derivatives exchange, has reported that customers’ average roundtrip times for futures contracts halved to five milliseconds following the introduction of its Enhanced Transaction Solution last month.

European central securities depository Euroclear Bank has linked its DerivManager OTC derivatives service with the Trade Information Warehouse, an OTC derivatives processing facility provided by the US’s Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

Research and strategic advisory firm Tabb Group has released a new paper predicting considerable challenges ahead for options market makers.

Accounting firm KPMG’s Turkey operation has chosen SuperDerivatives’ multi-asset options pricing and analytics platform for foreign currencies and interest rates.

SuperDerivatives, a derivatives pricing and trading technology firm, is to provide the liquidation price (or ’exit price’) of all derivatives held within clients’ portfolios.

ICAP, A UK-based interdealer broker, has agreed to buy Link Asset and Securities Company, a global equity derivatives broker.

OTC derivatives processing remains manual, making trades slow to confirm, according to a new research report.

Tabb Group, a research and advisory firm, has launched Tabb Derivatives Service, a research offering that, according to the company, grants users access to information on critical business issues and trends confronting firms and professionals trading derivatives.