DERIVED VALUE Global Finance brings together a group of industry leaders to discuss the prospects for the exchange -
traded derivatives market.
At the highest level, 2017 looks like an unexceptional year in the global exchange
traded derivatives markets.
Not exact matches
Christopher Yoshida, the chief strategy, sales and
marketing officer at
trading firm trueEx, has been busy with client meetings following the company's announcement that it is launching a
derivatives platform for digital currencies.
It also offers a diversified fund that invests in crypto
derivatives, cryptocurrencies, and initial coin offerings
trading in secondary
markets.
Led by the strategist Bram Kaplan, the firm's equity
derivatives team has five
trade recommendations — one that applies to the whole US
market and four addressing single stocks.
«There are two things driving the
market: Earnings and the news flow out of Washington,» said Randy Frederick, vice president of
trading and
derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.
«
Trade friction in and of itself has tended to be a
market negative,» said Julian Emanuel, chief equity and
derivatives strategist at BTIG.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group said last week that it wanted to start
trading bitcoin futures — a move that appeared to give the cryptocurrency greater legitimacy, but that also prompted some to express fears over the implications of bitcoin
derivatives, given the low level of regulation in the
market.
Derivatives were
traded entirely over the phone until post-financial crisis regulations required the
market to go electronic a couple of years ago.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- A group of small brokerages and large commodities companies convinced lawmakers to tweak a rule that they say would have made
derivatives trading more expensive for them and sent more business to Wall Street banks that already dominate the
market.
Besides the Toronto Stock Exchange, which primarily handles equities of some of Canada's biggest companies, the company also operates the TSX Venture Exchange, the TSX Alpha Exchange and the Montreal Exchange, which is Canada's largest
market for
trading derivatives.
Even as
derivatives trading may demonstrate a certain sophistication among millennial traders, it could also reflect their outsized stomach for risk, since they have a longer runway to earn returns from the
market.
It's a «myth that Jamie Dimon is a good risk manager,» she said, noting that a couple of years ago J.P. Morgan lost «hundreds of millions» due to speculative
derivative trading in which they «monopolized the entire global coal
market.»
The agency, which argued that the London
trading position was so large that it manipulated the
market for financial contracts known as
derivatives, sought an approximately $ 100 million fine and an acknowledgment of wrongdoing from the bank.
CBOE Global
Markets, the Chicago - based options and
derivatives exchange, announced Monday it'll offer
trading of its bitcoin futures product on December 11.
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traded and cleared
derivatives markets.
Figuring out ways to regulate
trading by sophisticated investors in
derivatives, which go by exotic names such as «currency forwards» and «credit default swaps,» is a hot topic in international policy circles, largely because failures on this murky side of the
market are blamed for the 2008 global credit meltdown and the recession that followed.
France's financial
markets regulator has said that online platforms which support cryptocurrency
derivative trading must receive approval to offer such services, report
trades to a central repository, and may not advertise their digital asset
derivatives.
I would not exclude another LTCM style episode of systemic risk given the risk of unraveling of highly leveraged carry
trades and the end of easy liquidity: triggers could be a disorderly move of the US dollar, perhaps following
trade war threats to China, leading to a 1987 - style stock
market crash; or MBSs interacting with a housing slump and the hedging activities of GSEs; or greater corporate distress or a Ford / GM entering into Chapter 11 triggering a massive sell - off in the murky, non-transparent and untested credit
derivatives.
As traditional exchanges announce bitcoin
derivatives, the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission shared an update about its oversight of cryptocurrency
markets.
The commodity
trading industry is starved for easy - to - read and entertaining, futures and options
trading books focused on translating the complex
derivatives markets.
On October 16, 2017, cryptocurrency
derivatives trading platform LedgerX began listing swaps as well as put and call options for BTC / USD, financial instruments that are available to the institutional
market in the US.
It's been over a week since cryptocurrency
derivatives began
trading in the US
market.
Financial assets and liabilities whose values, based on unadjusted, quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in an active
market, examples include active exchange -
traded equity securities, listed
derivatives, most United States Government and agency securities, and certain...
In a statement issued by Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF), the nation's financial
market watchdog, regulators said they had noticed a growing trend in unregulated futures and
derivatives trading involving cryptocurrency.
During this time he developed experience in asset management, portfolio construction,
derivative and cash
markets trading, and credit and risk analysis.
«What concerns me the most is that we've had spectacular earnings and the
market is just shrugging it off,» said Randy Frederick, managing director of
trading and
derivatives at Schwab Center for Financial Research.
In addition, Morgan Stanley structures, underwrites and
trades the full range of collateralized securities, including those backed by residential and commercial mortgages, in both the cash and
derivatives markets.
But in the realm of finance, as much as we traders appreciate the opportunity to unpack and
trade complexity in securities, structures and
markets, we wonder if the overall impact of financial innovation, including
derivatives, structured products, high - frequency
trading and communication advances, is a net negative, albeit with a possibly long delay before the drawbacks become visible» Paul Singer
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has set a slew of strong daily
trading midpoints for the yuan, increased how frequently it has state banks sell dollars to support the currency and has conducted rare intervention in
derivative markets.
We believe that when clarity returns, the financial
markets of recent years will be unmasked to have been a comprehensive manipulation made possible by the alchemy of transforming real assets into hyperactively
traded derivatives, ETPs, and financial benchmarks.
Some traders believe such high - frequency intervention in the spot
market and the coming requirements in
derivative trading mark a step backward for China's currency reforms.
LONDON, November 29, 2016 — The Royal Mint, the world's leading export mint, and CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse
derivatives marketplace, today announced a collaboration to transform the way that
market participants can
trade gold.
A partial but not complete list of worries includes: China melt down, Yuan reevaluation after effects or Taiwan action, global biomedical epidemics, e.g. Avian Flu, or bioterrorism outbreaks,
trade wars (China, EU), major hedge fund bankruptcies, a PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.) shortfall crisis, major junk bond or emerging
market bond default, a bank
derivative blowup, Fannie Mae issues plus possible assorted natural disasters.
A publicly
traded company since 2005, ICE (NYSE: ICE) lists more than 12,000
derivatives and securities contracts on its
markets.
EnergyMatch Europe Built on Trayport's technology, EnergyMatch Europe is a leading electronic energy
trading platform that combines
market leading technology with GFI's deep pool of liquidity in both
derivative and physical energy contracts.
Markets GFI operates leading marketplaces, matching counterparties»
trading needs across credit
derivatives and fixed income, foreign exchange and financial
derivatives, equities, and energy and commodities.
GFI is a global leader in providing pricing, liquidity,
trading technology and post-trade services for a wealth of fixed income cash and
derivatives markets.
For example, if Bitcoin is not a currency, then Bitcoin forwards and Bitcoin swaps that involve the exchange of Bitcoin for another currency will not fall under the statutory definitions of the more lightly regulated foreign exchange forwards or foreign exchange swaps.10 Likewise, retail
trading of Bitcoin
derivatives will be limited to designated contract
markets, rather than subject to the retail foreign exchange dealer regulations.11 Treating Bitcoin as a commodity that is not a currency dovetails with the stances taken by other U.S. regulators such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)(virtual currency does not have all of the attributes of real currency) 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (Bitcoin investments are investment contracts because Bitcoin is a form of money) 13 and the Internal Revenue Service (treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes).14
Those cases include decisions addressing the jurisdiction of the SEC, the CFTC and bank regulators over newly created
derivatives and other financial instruments; the scope of the definition of a «security»; the availability of private damage actions; extraterritorial application of U.S. securities and futures laws; the standards of liability for fraud and manipulation; electronic
trading markets; and the scope of fiduciary obligations of brokerage firms and banks.
This method of
trading has been available since 2008 and is probably the most straight forward, easy to learn
derivative instrument on the
market.
In credit
derivatives a provider that is now known for low commissions and for not trying to make money on every single
trade is Deutsche Bank, which another Greenwich survey described as a
market share leader in US fixed income as of August this year.
On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000 - point losses, the House Financial Services» Subcommittee on Capital
Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative proposals to return to the wild west era of
derivatives trading on Wall Street.
Since the underlying index value and IIV are not calculated or widely disseminated during extended hours
trading sessions, an investor who is unable to calculate implied values for certain
derivative securities products in those sessions may be at a disadvantage to
market professionals.
[6] A month after its launch, however, the new clearing service for credit
derivatives, launched by London - based LCH.Clearnet and futures
market Liffe, had yet to execute a single
trade, despite expectation that banks would use the system following regulatory pressure to pare risk in the
market.
29th August 2017 - Cinnober's real - time clearing solution now handles post
trading process for both the equities and the
derivatives markets in Brazil
The lack of sufficient
derivatives trading oversight is largely credited with the
market meltdown of 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the $ 1 trillion - plus taxpayer bailout of insurance giant AIG and Wall Street investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.
In addition to the
Market Maker license that Orobouros
Derivatives Trading obtained from Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) back in 2008, now the company also has CySec license for Portfolio Management and Investment Advice.
The international
derivatives markets of Eurex Group, owned by Deutsche Börse,
traded an average of 10.2 million contracts daily in September, of which 7.5 million were Eurex Exchange contracts and 2.7 million were contracts
traded on the International Securities Exchange (ISE).
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