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How Big Data is key to meeting demand in the explosive growth in US options volumes.
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What does it say of equities that inverse ETFs have become good long-term bets? Flawed construction aside, Theo Casey notes short EURO STOXX funds gained steadily in 2011. Here he shares a short selling candidate for the year ahead.
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Why creativity in the industry should be allowed.
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Fidessa's Steve Grob responds to CME chairman emeritus Leo Melamed's defence of HFT.
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Pension funds were about to celebrate their exemption from the costly clearing of OTC derivatives trades, when the banks pointed out the increasing costs of non-cleared trades that were heading their way finds Dan Barnes.
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William Brodsky, chief executive of CBOE Holdings, reflects on a remarkable year for the exchange.
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Philip McBride Johnson looks back on a key moment in derivatives regulation.
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In the depths of the coldest European winter for 300 years, the announcement in February of the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext sparked a storm of debate and set the scene for a deal jamboree across global exchanges. However the merger mania was soon met with the cold wind of reality as deals collapsed in the wake of protectionism and competition concerns.
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The demise of MF Global hit the futures industry like a mack-truck. Allegations that the firm used customer money to cover its own financial shortfall in its last days, has left the industry and investors without knowing who can be trusted, finds Elise Coroneos.
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2011 was intended to be the year that reforms to the derivatives industry took shape. However, it will be remembered as a year of delays and confusion as regulators struggled to get on top of complex issues within the industry, write David Wigan and William Mitting.
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In periods of great uncertainty the ability to take directional bets on markets is valuable. When those bets can be made in a highly commoditised and price-competitive environment, as is the case with US equity options, it is priceless. finds David Wigan.
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The fungibility that regulations will deliver in derivatives markets could trigger an arms race in algorithmic trading. However, algo traders will have to reassess their strategies for the new market writes Dan Barnes.
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Next year will be the year regulators bear their teeth.
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If governments insist in central clearing for illiquid contracts, they must accept the consequences.
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How new European regulations will lead to both increased competition and increased data requirements in exchange traded derivatives.
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The changing business model for banks in the new world order.
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Why a central repository for client funds might be the answer to prevent problem of missing funds.