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Lovas: Big data in finance

30 January 2012

How Big Data is key to meeting demand in the explosive growth in US options volumes. More »
Casey: 2012 and the cult of inverse equity

26 January 2012

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. More »
Johnson: In defence of contingency futures

11 January 2012

Why creativity in the industry should be allowed. More »
Grob: Poachers turned gamekeepers

05 January 2012 | This article has 1 comment

Fidessa's Steve Grob responds to CME chairman emeritus Leo Melamed's defence of HFT. More »
FOW Person of the Year: CBOE's William J Brodsky

23 December 2011 | This article has 1 comment

William Brodsky, chief executive of CBOE Holdings, reflects on a remarkable year for the exchange. More »
Moulange: New markets and new rules will dominate 2012

22 December 2011

Next year will be the year regulators bear their teeth. More »
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20 December 2011

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Casey: 2012 and the cult of inverse equity

26 January 2012

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.
Grob: Poachers turned gamekeepers

05 January 2012

Fidessa's Steve Grob responds to CME chairman emeritus Leo Melamed's defence of HFT.

CRD 4: Out of the frying pan and into the fire for pension funds

23 December 2011

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.
Review of the year: exchange mergers

23 December 2011

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.

CRD 4: Out of the frying pan and into the fire for pension funds

23 December 2011

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.
Johnson: The true "secret" of the Shad-Johnson Accord

23 December 2011

Philip McBride Johnson looks back on a key moment in derivatives regulation.