Derivs - FX

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the exchange and clearing house operator, on Sunday revealed it had added Bank of America’s fixed income index platform to its ICE Data Services offering.

Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn has singled out clearing houses as “the next problem” that the financial industry will have to confront.

The European derivatives market has a combined notional value of $478tr, with 330m transactions outstanding, said the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) after it analysed data from six EU-authorised trade repositories.

Major clearing house LCH on Wednesday announced that its COO, Daniel Maguire, has been appointed CEO of the firm.

NEX Optimisation has hit a target in the roll out of its Infinity platform, signing up a third party service provider for FX spot transactions.

Vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Anneli Tuominen has said that the body could issue a warning on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), a method of capital raising using cryptocurrencies on a blockchain.

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has opened its first US office in Chicago, as it aims to meet institutional investors' demand for exposure to Asian markets.

A partner at Mayer Brown in New York has moved to Linklaters, which is pushing to expand its US capital markets business.

The CEO of NEX Optimisation has handed in her resignation from the firm after just over two years in the job.

European and US derivatives regulators have struck common ground in their approach to electronic trading and agreed equivalence in their oversight of the OTC market, a move that will reduce margin requirements for cross-border market participants.

Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Christopher Giancarlo on Wednesday announced his intention to postpone a decision on the derivatives threshold that forces firms to register as swap dealers.

The chair of the commodity futures trading Commission, Christopher Giancarlo, on Wednesday announced