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December
The convenience of use that has made ETFs such a hit with retail investors is also making their derivatives attractive, to investors both large and small. Elise Coroneos reports.
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November
FOW can reveal the first part of the results of its Awards for Innovation 2009: the Awards for Exchanges, Clearing Houses and Law Firms. The Awards for Banks, Brokers and FCMs and for IT and Software Companies will be declared in December.
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Does it make sense that less than a year after CME Group was forced to close FXMarketSpace – an aggressive move to expand its foreign exchange business – it is trying to prise open the market again? Michael Halls investigates.
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Retail currency trading has grown from humble beginnings to connect with the highly sophisticated world of algorithmic trading. As Michael Halls reports, retail investors have arrived as a fully fledged segment of the foreign exchange markets.
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October
With international trade of nearly 900m tonnes a year, iron ore is one of the biggest bulk commodities in the world that is not traded on exchanges. Only recently has the market’s established pricing system come under strain, hastening the dawn of derivatives. Agnieszka Troszkiewicz looks at the nascent iron ore swap market, prospects for growth, and perhaps eventually a listed futures market.
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September
Other derivative markets have faltered in 2009, but carbon trading has gone right on booming. Participants are enthusiastic about the EU market, yet the real challenge is to implement these ideas elsewhere.
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July
Building an Islamic derivatives market has been
a slow process, and remains controversial with
some scholars. But the momentum is there – and a
new standardised agreement should be available
soon. As Siân Williams discovers, many firms and individuals are committed to the market and believe
a new phase of faster growth is not far off.