Derivs - FX

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.

Citi will integrate its foreign exchange and local markets operations with its G10 rates unit, to form a single rates and currencies business.

The UK financial regulator has recognised Intercontinental Exchange’s data and analytics unit as a third-country benchmark administrator, more than two years ahead of schedule.

Taking a bespoke, advisory approach, at the same time as offering innovative solutions to its clients continues to prove a winning formula for Société Générale, all of which helped the bank mount a successful defence of its title of Americas Corporate Solutions House of the Year.

For its dedication to advocacy for the derivatives industry’s improvement, investment in meaningful technological change and its ability to adapt quickly to change, Citi is GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives House of the Year, as well as its Clearing House of the Year and Research and Strategy House of the Year.

For its success in executing large and sophisticated transactions, often while embedded within corporate treasury teams, and its commitment to market transparency, Chatham Financial is GlobalCapital’s Americas Risk Management Advisory Firm of the Year.

For its commitment to growing a complete derivatives offering, including newly bolstered enforcement capabilities, a leading structured products practice and dedication to helping clients understand cross-border dynamics, Mayer Brown is GlobalCapital’s overall Americas Law Firm of the Year.

For its commitment to finding innovative trading and capital efficiencies for its clients, a run of highly successful product launches and its leadership role in market transitions, CME Group is both GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives Clearing House of the Year and Americas Derivatives Exchange of the Year.

For its ability to sustain powerful growth in an increasingly competitive market, for its identification and execution of opportunities in new markets and innovation in analysis of derivatives data, Numerix is GlobalCapital’s Americas Data and Analytics Vendor of the Year.

For its commitment to advocacy for fairer and more transparent markets and powerful growth in market making across asset classes, XTX Markets is GlobalCapital’s Americas Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year as well as its Americas Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year for both equity and FX derivatives.

MEFF, the Spain-based derivatives exchange, is broadening its product range with the launch of FX futures contracts, adding itself to the growing number of derivatives exchanges adding speed bumps to their contracts.