Derivatives

Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, will launch the world's first exchange-traded credit derivatives contract on 27 March 2007, a future based on the iTraxx

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed CLS Bank International (CLS) to provide central settlement of payments for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives contracts housed in the Trade Information Warehouse it launched earlier this week. The aim is to provide an integrated global payment processin

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a Trade Information Warehouse, which it claims will reduce the manual component in post-trade processing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions. DTCC announced its plans to build the warehouse in February this year. Since then, a DTCC team ba

New York-based Global Electronic Markets (GEM) has licensed the trade comparison component fof its FpML Mediator software to T-Zero, the credit derivatives trade affirmation platform. The integration of the software will enable T-Zero's buy-side clients to perform trading activities such as assignments and early term

The Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for US hedge funds, has pledged its support for the recommendations on equity derivatives practices set out by a group of 17 US broker dealers in a letter of 21 November to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and other US securities and derivatives markets re

Markit Group, which provides OTC derivatives valuation and trade processing services, has extended its pricing service to loan credit default swaps (LCDS). Markit says LCDS was launched in response to strong interest in the nascent LCDS market from dealers and institutional investors wishing to take synthetic exposur