The American CSD, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), says its Deriv/SERV OTC derivatives order routing and matching business has had a record year, with transaction volume tripling in 2006. As a result, DTCC is providing a first-time rebate of $3 million to its dealer customers.
Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, yesterday announced it will use a new Bloomberg model to calculate the final settlement prices of its new credit index future, to be launched on 27 March. These prices will be displayed and can be analysed on the Bloomberg Professional service.
Trading Technologies International (TT) yesterday announced plans to offer energy traders connectivity to the Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME) when the Middle East's first energy futures exchange begins operations on May 1, 2007. It is a joint venture between Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
OTC derivatives valuation provider SuperDerivatives has launched an online multi-asset class derivatives platform that it says offers a combination of accurate pricing, analytics, trading, risk management and compliance reporting. It is aimed at hedge fund managers in particular, and fund managers in general.
TSX Group CEO Richard Nesbitt and International Securities Exchange (ISE) president and CEO David Krell yesterday announced the creation of DEX, a new derivatives exchange which is scheduled to begin operations in March 2009 and will list and trade options, futures and options on futures on a range of Canadian securities.
Eurex Repo, the electronic repurchase agreement (repo) market of the international derivatives exchange Eurex, reached a new peak on 23 February; the daily outstanding volume in the Euro repo market totaled €57.5 billion. The previous record was €55 billion reached on 10 November 2006.
Bursa Malaysia has granted UBS Securities Malaysia authorised borrower status under its reintroduced regulated short-selling and securities borrowing and lending activities scheme.
"We are delighted at being allowed to participate in the Securities Borrowing and Lending (SBL) framework," says Joe Cavatoni, head of equity swaps, Asia, UBS. "The re-introduction of these measures will contribute strongly to greater liquidity and enhance the attractiveness of the Malaysian market," he adds.
GL TRADE, a provider of integrated solutions for financial institutions, working in partnership with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and its derivatives business EDX London, will hold its first joint trading forum in Moscow on 29 March. The forum will give an overview of the LSE's International Order Book (IOB) and the newly launched EDX Russian IOB Equity Derivatives Services.
The International Securities Exchange announced yesterday that it set a new record daily trading volume of 5,531,875 equity and index options contracts on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. The previous record for contracts handling was 4,580,678, and was set on January 20, 2006.
Derivatives pricing software provider NumeriX yesterday announced a strategic partnership with ClusterSeven, a developer of enterprise spreadsheet management and control software.
The combined technologies give customers the capability to quickly and accurately price and execute financial products without leaving Excel, the trader’s preferred technology tool.