Derivatives News
EU Defends NYSE-Deutsche Boerse Merger Block ($)
Wall Street Journal European leaders defended their decision to block the high-profile proposed merger between NYSE Euronext (NYX) and Deutsche Boerse (DB1.XE) Thursday and promised heightened vigilance in the future.
3 February 2012
CME Group creates $100m fund after MF Global ($)
Financial Times CME Group, the US’s biggest futures exchange operator, is creating a $100m protection fund for farmers and ranchers as it attempts to restore confidence in futures markets after the collapse of MF Global.
3 February 2012
UPDATE: Futures On Credit-Default Swaps Seen As Natural Evolution ($)
Wall Street Journal
2 February 2012
Previous Derivatives News
2 February 2012
- CME sees no need to revamp futures regulation in post-MF Global market (Crain's Chicago Business)
- Alts. Honchos Give Millions To Romney Group (FINalternatives)
- MF Global Bankruptcy to Shape Managed Futures Regulation in 2012 (Marcum)
- NYSE Is Niederauer Dilemma as Deal Fails (Bloomberg)
- Euroclear: Overall Good Results; Mixed Bag at Subsidiaries (ISS)
- Eris forges ahead with cross-margining (IFR)
- Macro Trader Finds Opportunity in Super Bowl XLVI (CNBC)
- Class War 2012: Why Both Parties Are Flying the Anti-Wall Street Banner (TIME)
- Global Strategists Abandoning Bearish Views (Bloomberg)
- CME Profit Surges, Revenue Falls ($) (Wall Street Journal)
- Q&A: NYSE Executives on the Merger's Collapse ($) (Wall Street Journal)
- Block points to future of global alliances ($) (Financial Times)
1 February 2012
- Advent's Stephanie DiMarco Will Leave a Strong Legacy (Wall Street and Tech)
- Exclusive: MF Global triggers regulatory rethink at CFTC (Reuters)
- Gross Says Rates at Zero Leading to Death of Abundance, Birth of Austerity (Bloomberg)
- Niederauer Keeps NYSE Board Support as Deutsche Boerse Backs CEO (Bloomberg)
- NYSE-Börse in discussions to terminate merger ($) (Financial News )
- Uniting Asia a matter of ESP (The Trade)
- After Veto, Europe's Exchanges Gird for Derivatives Battle (Institutional Investor)
- On second thought, low volume not so bad for stocks (Reuters)
- NYSE CEO: Appeal Possible, Clearing Strategy Again a Focus ($) (Wall Street Journal)
- After a Delay, MF Global’s Missing Money Is Traced (DealBook)
- Hedge funds brace for euro zone break-up (Reuters)
- Icap to cut jobs and clamp down on bonuses ($) (Financial Times)
- Nasdaq shakes off weaker trading ($) (Financial Times)
- NYSE and Deutsche Borse Plan to Call Off Merger (DealBook)
- U.S. to charge ex-Suisse traders on subprimes: sources (Reuters)
- NYSE board stands by Niederauer ($) (Financial Times)
- TPG Agrees to Purchase Hedge Fund Administrator GlobeOp for $800 Million (Bloomberg)
- Goldman Sachs Is Said to Be in Talks to Hire Former Geithner Aide Siewert (Bloomberg)
31 January 2012
- Ex-JC Flowers U.K. CEO Fined, Banned For Fraud (FINalternatives)
- John Reed on Big Banks’ Power and Influence (Bill Moyers.com)
- Malaysia Relaxes FX, Interest Rate Derivative Rules ($) (Derivatives Intelligence)
- Going to the MAT with the CFTC (MarketsReformWiki)
- Goldman Sachs Runners Step Up for Empire State Building’s 86-Floor Climb (Bloomberg)
- Sarkozy Tax May Drive Investors From Stocks (Bloomberg)
- Breach of fiduciary duty still No.1 investor charge (InvestmentNews)
- Persistent trade failure problem gets partial fix (Reuters)
- FSA warns on Mifid review proposals ($) (Financial Times)
- Nasdaq OMX makes clearing house pledge ($) (Financial Times)
- D Börse and NYSE challenge block to merger ($) (Financial Times)
30 January 2012
- Taming the Market Data Beast (Advanced Trading )
- Janney Hires Ex-MF Global Employees in U.S. Capital Markets Expansion (Bloomberg)
- MF Global Told S&P It Had ‘Never Been Stronger’ One Week Before Collapse (Bloomberg)
- CFTC to Examine Rapid Trading ($) WSJ (WSJ)
