First Read Yesterday's Top Clicks Our top read link yesterday was the, MarketsWiki Education Job board, a collection of job openings from the top exchanges and firms in the industry. The second most read item was Career Opportunities at Deutsche Boerse Group, which is...
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Pipelines: Nick Solinger Talks Market Infrastructure for SEFs
It's been a historic year for swap execution facilities as more were launched in the wake of Dodd-Frank rulemaking by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Nick Solinger, head of product strategy and chief marketing officer of Traiana, said that its been a good...
Jeffrey Maron of MarkitSERV Talks Plumbing: How SEF Reporting Infrastructure Works
With the official launch of swap execution facilities (SEFs) on October 2, a new trading structure for OTC products is underway. Today, with almost 20 SEFs operational or in the works, the question for many market participants is: how will all the trading and...
Hurry Up and Wait…Now Hurry Up!
In less than two weeks, the CFTC will require compliance with its final rules regarding swap execution facilities (SEFs), and there is concern among industry participants that the budding SEF world is not ready. We believe these concerns are real enough and the risks...
JLN Options: Options Week in Review Jan. 31, 2013
The International Securities Exchange renamed its product development group ISE ETF Ventures, to emphasize its expanded efforts in the ETF business, Barron's reported. The ISE calculates a number of indexes used as the basis for various ETFs, the most widely owned ETF...
SURFACExchange CEO Evgeni Mitkov Discusses the Potential for FX Options
Evgeni Mitkov, CEO of SURFACExchange, launched the FX options ECN in August 2011. Just over a year later, they’ve attracted almost 50 firms by offering the ECN to currency options traders through a no-install browser-based platform. Mitkov spoke with JLN...
Five Minutes with Jim Rucker
Jim Rucker is the credit and risk officer of MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (MKTX). He joined the company at its inception, after a 20-year career with Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the three financial entities that founded MarketAxess. Earlier this month, MKTX issued a...
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