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New York-based boutique broker Rosenblatt Securities is moving into listed options.

Electronic bond trading in Brazil is set to increase after MarketAxess, the operator of a fixed income trading platform, gained approval to offer trading in local currency debt instruments.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has passed its final rules for market participants who clear customer trades.

As market participants hunt beyond large-cap equities for alpha generation, accessing small caps is becoming easier in some markets but harder in others.

A new soon-to-be-launched trading platform will offer the buy-side a new and innovative means of sourcing non-standardised swaps that may become more expensive to trade and fund under new laws.

Using electronic trading tools to source liquidity in the fixed income markets across a number of counterparties can significantly reduce trading costs, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.

Financial technology provider SunGard has developed a service that it says can help banks, broker-dealers and asset managers to organise their collateral in the most efficient way possible, ahead of the global shift towards central clearing of OTC derivatives.

The Bank of England has set out its suggestions on how to determine which OTC derivatives can be made eligible for central clearing, as part of the government’s G20 commitment to reducing systemic risk in financial markets.

Market participants have advised Europe’s securities watchdog to keep the specifications for deciding which OTC derivatives can be cleared as broad as possible to avoid circumvention of new regulations.

Banking regulation Basel III could breathe new life into the securities lending sector, market participants claimed yesterday at a forum in London.