Derivs - Equity

Mark Hemsley, president of Cboe Europe, is retiring early next year to be replaced by David Howson, chief operating officer of Europe for the exchange holding company.

As Elizabeth Warren’s chances of clinching the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 US presidential election increase, so have investors' needs to hedge the volatility that a free market sceptic will bring to the country's equity markets. Société Générale believes it has a solution.

CME Group has reported a strong set of third quarter results, with double digit growth in the trading of rates, equity and commodity products.

Deutsche Bank posted declines in investment bank revenue on the back of a fixed income trading fall in its third quarter results, released on Wednesday. But debt origination revenue grew. A change in the bank’s reporting structure to reflect its new capital release unit has allowed it to shield the investment bank from costly losses on unwanted assets.

Derivatives trading and OTC clearing have boosted Deutsche Börse in the third quarter quarter, with notable activity in its power exchange.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is setting up a new subcommittee in a bid to resolve concerns around margin requirements for non-cleared swaps.

Intercontinental Exchange has launched a new open architecture ETF platform, a move to to simplify the creation and redemption process for equity and fixed income ETFs.

An investor in Ping An Healthcare and Technology has bagged HK$1.25bn ($159.9m) after selling a chunk of shares in the company, according to a source close to the transaction.

BGC Partners has reported a third-quarter loss amid rising expenses, higher investment and currency headwinds.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has called for improvement in national regulators’ supervision of derivatives data.

The Index Industry Association (IIA) has pointed to growth in the fixed income and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) index segments, despite a fall in the overall number of indices globally.

The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) annual progress report, published on Tuesday, shows that during the last year there has been little progress in implementing agreed G20 reforms to over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.