Foreign exchange
JP Morgan launches LSE-listed certificates
JP Morgan has launched the first listed certificates registered on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), targeted at retail investors. The move follows the launch in November of covered warrants in the UK.
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S&P says Basel II helping to improve German banking
FRANKFURT – The proposed Basel II bank safety rules, weak operating performance and shareholder value considerations are behind a trend to more efficient capital allocation, prudent cost control and risk-adjusted pricing in German banking, a leading…
Wharton adds options data to online research tool
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is adding historical options data from OptionMetrics, a New York-based research and consulting company, to its web-based securities information service.
Basel II helping to improve German banking, says S&P
The proposed Basel II bank safety rules, weak operating performance and shareholder value considerations are behind a trend to more efficient capital allocation, prudent cost control and risk-adjusted pricing in German banking, a leading credit rating…
Nasdaq launches European tracker ETF
The Nasdaq Stock Market has launched a Nasdaq-100 European Tracker, an exchange-traded fund (ETF), on the Nasdaq Europe exchange today under the symbol EQQQ. The fund is designed to follow the Nasdaq 100 index and is composed of the top hundred non…
Deutsche Bank seeks plays on EU convergence
Deutsche Bank has launched a Central European foreign exchange (CEFX) convergence index designed to provide optimally weighted risk/return exposure to the Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovakian currencies. The index is tradable as a spot currency, with…
FXall adds liquidity providers
FXall will announce the addition of four new liquidity providers to its platform today, the multi-bank trading portal told RiskNews ’ sister publication FX Week .
Danske restructures FX sales
Danske Bank has reorganised its forex sales team in London into separate units for corporate and institutional customers.
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CLS Is Live. What Next?
CLS participants breathed a huge sigh of relief when the long-awaited system launched successfully. Is anyone ready to start expanding the system to new products?
STP Part 2: After Automation
A vice president of IT at Paine Webber predicts it won’t be enough to automate processes-they must be carefully coordinated.
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