Derivatives

Mark Donlon, a former Citi veteran and head of the bank’s US swaps business, joins RJ O’Brien as it launches a new OTC swaps trading desk.

David Howson, president of Cboe Europe, joins The TRADE to discuss the exchange group’s recent acquisition of EuroCCP, and how the takeover will expand Cboe’s reach in the European equities and equity derivatives markets.

OTC Clear, HKEX’s CCP, has cleared the first HONIA-based interest rate swap with Bank of China and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.

The NDF Premium data feed from TP ICAP will include data from the broker’s hybrid trading platform for electronic and voice liquidity.

ICE Benchmark Administration has started publishing beta term SONIA rates for testing, using data from BGC, TP ICAP, and Tradition’s Trad-X central limit order books.

HKEX confirmed in May it would expand its licensing agreement with MSCI to launch Asia and emerging market futures and options contracts.

Institutional investors will have access to crypto derivatives in Europe for the first time, following Kraken’s approval from the FCA to operate a crypto futures MTF.

Trad-X launched its electronic D2C CLOB platform earlier this year and has expanded participants with UniCredit and ACTIAM.

TP ICAP will replace 85 trading systems in London, New York and Paris with Trading Technologies’ order management system.

David Collins joins First Derivatives from GFT Group to lead its managed services and consulting operations.