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SGX claims it will be one of the first to adopt new international regulatory and risk management standards on derivatives clearing.

Trading technology vendor ConvergEx Group has hired Craig Reilly to join its LiquidPoint options team.

NYSE Euronext has laid out its plans for technology changes to venues, including new pre-trade risk filters for brokers on its derivatives market.

Post-trade tensions in the securities industry are likely to increase in 2013, according to Virginie O’Shea, an analyst with research and advisory firm Aite Group.

The cost of trading swaps is set to rise under new legislation, requiring the buy-side to reassess whether OTC derivatives can still meet their hedging needs in the most efficient way.

Ever since the Dodd-Frank Act came into law on 21 July 2010 the financial industry has tried to wait patiently for US regulators to issue the final versions of the Act's 398 rules. Entering into 2013, the process probably won't change, according to experts.

The former head of Knight Capital's algo business Joseph Wald has joined global trading services provider GAIN Capital.

Five financial market infrastructures from different parts of the world have joined forces to create the Liquidity Alliance, a forum to exchange information, identify common needs and extend global collateral solutions.

Proposals to impose variation and initial margin on OTC derivatives are "ill-conceived and unnecessary", according to George Handjinicolaou, deputy CEO and head of Europe at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.

Denmark's Saxo Bank has launched a prime brokerage solution that offers institutional clients, retail brokers and prop trading firms direct access to FX liquidity providers and venues globally.