Derivs - Equity

Infrastructure services provider Traiana has unveiled a new service to fully automate the post-trade lifecycle management of the global equity swaps market.

Members of the US House Committee on Agriculture reserved harsh words for a chief European regulator on Wednesday, in a sign that the cross-border spat over derivatives clearing has not yet subsided.

Singapore Exchange has unveiled a sweeping restructuring of its business as it seeks to grow across asset classes.

Another senior member of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has left the regulator, as its director of the division of Swap Dealer & Intermediary Oversight (DSIO), Matthew Kulkin, stepped down on Wednesday.

Capitalab, the compression unit of interdealer broker BGC Partners, has begun to offer compression for Nikkei 225 options in partnership with SGX.

Unless the EU extends equivalence status to Swiss exchanges before the end of the week, shares from firms in one of the two jurisdictions will not be able to be traded in the other one. This could cause disruption and market fragmentation, although the exact impact is unknown.

Eric Pan, director of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of International Affairs (OIA), is to stand down after nearly four years.

After extensive restructuring, interdealer broker Tradition is marketing a modular data product under its market data and information services division, TraditionDATA.

The Basel committee on banking supervision has agreed to allow banks to offset the margin posted by clients in calculating the leverage ratio, marking a hard fought victory for the clearing industry.

GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the nominees for this year’s Global Derivatives Awards.

KPMG UK has named Kay Swinburne, a central figure in the shaping of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, as its vice-chair of financial services. Her role will be to help shape the firm’s insights on risk and regulation.

Brian Bussey, director of the Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is to step down from his position after 22 years of service.