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The departure of Garry Jones, global head of Liffe, which was announced today by parent company NYSE Euronext, comes after a tough start to the year for the exchange, says William Mitting.
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China is undergoing a process of liberalising its economy, and as the market opens up, new contracts will be launched and the hegemony of the dollar in commodity trading is under threat says Newedge’s John Browning.
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One of the biggest concerns over the implementation of the OTC clearing mandate is the vast amount of additional collateral that will be required. In the latest in our OTC clearing series, William Mitting explores how the collateral squeeze could be mitigated.
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Sungard's Marcus Cree looks at similarities between the story of VaR and Star Wars and how an imperfect risk model is still the only one around.
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Submit your application for the FOW Awards and the FOW Awards for Asia.
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Allan D Grody looks at how to recover from MF Global, the smallest Too-Big-to-Fail Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) that was on no one’s radar screen.
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Fidessa's Justin Llewellyn Jones examines the pressures faced by mid-tier brokers in the modern trading environment.
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A review of industry legend Richard Sandor's autobiography.
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Fidessa's Steve Grob on why regulation of HFT is best left to the market.
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With a greater understanding of the hedge ratio, last year's market turmoil would not have been a surprise, says Richard Jones.
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In the third part of our series on the G20 mandate for clearing of standardised OTC derivatives, William Mitting looks at how the market can compete.
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As the US enters political season, Philip McBride Johnson offers a defence of sepculation.
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Chicago is experiencing a mini-boom in new, small prop shops, says Fintan Quill.
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In the second of the series of unanswered questions on OTC clearing, William Mitting asks who should decide what is eligible for clearing.
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A new study by FOW sister title FOWintelligence has revealed that 52% of new contracts launched in 2011 failed to trade. There are many reasons behind the failures but is a lack of innovation at the heart of the findings?
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The failure of the proposed merger between NYSE Liffe and Deutsche Bourse in February was one of a number of similar failed deals that cost exchanges dear in terms of lost time and fees. Now, strategies are shifting in favour of strategic partnerships and linkage deals with other exchanges.
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The G20 OTC clearing mandate has accelerated the race for domination among exchange owned clearing houses. Portfolio margining will be at the heart of success and the London Stock Exchange has taken an early lead.
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Long-only buy-side investment managers in the US expect the use of futures algorithms to take off in the next twelve months, will the volume of trading predicted to grow, finds Dan Barnes.
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Galen Stops looks at how exchanges are acting ahead of any regulatory mandate to address the real issues posed by high frequency trading.
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Amid the doom and gloom across Europe at present, Poland is an island of optimism, writes Galen Stops.
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Phil Lynch, President and CEO at Asset Control looks at what the changing regulatory environment means for data.
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Indian currency contracts are booming with the most traded contracts changing hands hundreds of millions of times a year. Galen Stops travelled to Mumbai to find out the reasons behind the success of the contracts and who is trading them.
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The German derivatives market operator is undergoing a technology revamp that promises to surpass the demands of a transformed industry. Dan Barnes reports.
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Theo Casey looks to Europe to hedge tail risk.
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The first part of a new series on the unasnwered questions on OTC clearing.
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Fidessa's Matt Grinnell looks at why hedge funds need to foster a culture of compliance.
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The "MF Global problem" remains unsolved and the appetite for change is waning, says Philip McBride Johnson.