Anglo-French clearing house LCH.Clearnet has enhanced its US OTC interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear, to accept a broader range of collateral for initial margin, offering increased connectivity and variable notional swaps.
Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading has adapted the risk-balanced strategies of MS PORT, its multi-asset-class portfolio execution algorithm, for the fixed income and equity futures markets.
SPDR ETFs, the exchange traded funds platform of asset management firm State Street Global Advisors, has issued 11 new physically-backed equity and fixed income ETFs on the London Stock Exchange's main market, offering exposure to fixed income, global and emerging equity markets.
Buy-side firm AXA Investment Managers has selected the TradingScreen execution management system to provide a single platform for multi-asset trading and to reduce connectivity burdens.
Electronic trading of fixed income and foreign exchange products has increased significantly over the past two years, encouraging a greater adoption of multi-asset trading strategies by institutional investors.
Derivatives trading technology provider FFastFill, has launched a new service, FFastFill Horizon, that enables sell-side firms without direct membership to access over 60 trading venues, covering equity, fixed income, futures, FX and options, via other member firms.
FlexTrade Systems, a supplier of multi-asset execution management systems (EMS), has launched a new cross-currency spread programme for trading equities in the US, Europe and Asia.
Commodities futures and options broker Sucden Financial has launched a multi-asset direct market access (DMA) platform for its institutional and corporate clients using solutions from technology provider SunGard.
Agency broker Bloomberg Tradebook has launched a suite of US options algorithms, called PegTo, which allow users to trade based on their view of whether certain option price measurements – known as greeks – are cheap or expensive