Derivatives

Short term interest rate traders at BNP Paribas can now access futures listed on the CurveGlobal Markets exchange.

After launching client clearing at ForexClear, Barclays was the first bank to process a client trade through LCH’s international clearing broker model.  

SPX and VIX options on the Cboe Options Exchange will be tradeable for almost an almost 24-hour trading day under the extension.  

Peter Ward, global head of futures and options electronic execution at JP Morgan, tells Hayley McDowell that buy-side adoption of its reinforcement learning FICC futures algorithms has surged in recent years, accelerated by the market volatility in 2020.

The Micro Bitcoin futures will offer traders another tool to hedge their spot Bitcoin price risk or execute Bitcoin trading strategies.

BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered supported the first match aligned with quarterly international money market dates on startup matching engine FX HedgePool. 

All Athens Stock Exchange derivatives products are now available to trade on the Trading Technologies platform including stock and index futures and options.

The Micro-DAX, Micro-EURO STOXX 50 and Micro-SMI futures will begin trading at Eurex on 19 April this year.   

A survey by FIA has found that 23% of firms see fragmentation of markets as the most concerning impact of Brexit on the derivatives market. 

The pair said the newly expanded product offering emphasized their commitment to connecting markets globally.