Derivs - FX

Société Générale has extended its clearing and sales offering to enable clients to trade FX futures on Eurex Exchange.

Futures brokerage R.J. O’Brien has appointed Simon Prangnell to head up its new affiliate company in France.

Heath Tarbert this week took over the reins as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, becoming the 14th chairman of the CFTC as he succeeded Christopher Giancarlo.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined trade repository Regis–TR €56,000 for failing to provide direct and immediate access to details of derivative contracts to regulators.

Former Lloyds Banking Group trader Christophe Coutte will join RBC Capital Markets as head of macro trading Europe.

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.

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.

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.

SSA issuers are increasingly looking towards the Norwegian krone market as a hawkish Norges Bank, against the tide, raises rates. The European Investment Bank in particular has sharply increased its Nokkie issuance this year.