Observations & Insight FIA Asia-V: Asian Commodity Futures Bloom Despite COVID's Chaos Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News While the pandemic was a major economic disruptor in 2020, impacting global demand and the supply chain, the use of futures and options grew...
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Covid Is Resurging, and This Time It’s Everywhere; Australian Bourse Halts Trading in Longest Outage in Decade
As the deadline for the end of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) looms at the end of 2021, a host of legacy issues and alternative rate choices remain on the table, members of an FIA Expo panel on short-term interest rate rates agreed. But while the panelists...
Deborah North, partner at the law firm Allen & Overy, moderated the Wednesday morning panel titled “Is Market Fragmentation the Future?” at FIA Expo 2020.
Far from being felled by the COVID pandemic – or anything else that has happened in 2020 – the Intercontinental Exchange had its best year in history in revenue and earnings and made its largest acquisition deal ever – which is saying a lot – by buying Ellie Mae two months ago.
U.S. Stock-Index Futures Drop; Masayoshi Son’s Personal Stake in SoftBank Trading Unit Draws Fire
This week on The Spread – record-high options trading volumes, new products from Intercontinental Exchange and HKEX, and more.
SoftBank Reveals Details of Controversial Derivatives Trading; TP ICAP cautions on flat revenue growth as trading dries up
This week on The Spread – the VIX hits a 5-month high one week before the U.S. election, FIA Expo goes virtual, and more.
Global volume in futures and options is on track for a banner year in 2020, with growth fueled largely by equity derivatives amid unparalleled levels of volatility.
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The Financial Times says investors are anticipating a Joe Biden win in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. The Kremlin is increasingly alarmed about the prospect of a Biden win,...
Singapore and India exchanges end dispute over derivatives; CME, Nasdaq to Launch Water Futures Contract
Kicking Out Chinese Stocks and WeChat Is Another Nail in the Coffin of U.S.-China Links
Europe Is Heading Toward a New Financial Crisis; ETFs Could Rock the Bitcoin World
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Stocks edge back to kick off earnings week as Powell says U.S. economy at ‘inflection point’; Money managers flirting with all-time record CBOT corn long
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