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July
Milan’s Italian Derivatives Exchange Market boasts a diverse customer base of local retail and institutional investors, prop shops and banks. Tom Osborn visits the exchange fast becoming the jewel in the LSE’s crown.
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June
Japan's derivatives market has not kept up with advances elsewhere. But now there are signs that the exchanges have realised the situation is desperate. They are performing long-overdue IT upgrades and launching new contracts – but is it too late? Colin Packham reports.
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Despite the enormous numbers of derivatives being traded on China’s exchanges, the authorities are intent on establishing secure, non-speculative markets than on promoting volume growth. Colin Packham reports.
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May
As Hugo Cox discovers, there is plenty of appetite for high speed trading in Asia and Brazil, from both the traders and the exchanges. All that needs to happen is for barriers to be cleared away.
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Frankfurt hasn’t half the glamour and hubbub of London – but when it comes to derivatives, it’s the gently pulsating heart of the European market. Tom Osborn reports from the banks of the Main.
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In a tightly controlled derivatives market like India’s, regulatory permission to launch a new product is like the starting gun in a race. As Benjamin Beasley-Murray reports, the hardest battle now is over FX derivatives.
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April
Islamic finance specialists gave a cautious welcome to the new ISDA/IIFM Tahawwut (Hedging) Master Agreement for Islamic derivatives, announced on March 1 by the two bodies that prepared it: the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the International Islamic Financial Market.
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The Nordic region has a vibrant listed derivative market with three financial exchanges. Nasdaq OMX's split with EDX and Oslo Børs has opened a new era of unbridled competition. Can all three can stay in the game? Colin Packham reports.
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March
India. Long on potential but often seen as short on delivery. But that traditional view of the country’s commodity derivatives markets is changing fast. Colin Packham reports on their rapid, if bumpy, ride to success.
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On March 2, FOW travelled to São Paulo to offer a unique forum for the key players in the Latin American derivatives market, exploring the opportunities and challenges currently facing in the region.
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February
Nasdaq OMX is unlikely to be too concerned by losing its stake in Nasdaq Dubai, a senior exchange analyst has told FOW.
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The New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) is confident that its whole milk powder future will establish itself as a global benchmark because it is not US centric, unlike the rival CME Group contract.