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Crude price surges past $95
Crude oil futures closed at a new record high Wednesday, driven by U.S. crude inventories dropping to the lowest level in two years and a falling dollar following the Federal Reserve’s rate cut.
ICE and Platts partner on pricing
Commodities information provider Platts is to integrate OTC market data from IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) into its forward curve data products for North American gas and power markets.
CFTC asks Congress for greater powers over ECMs
Oversight of trading on regulated futures markets and exempt commercial markets (ECMs) is generally satisfactory but some legislative action is still required, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has concluded.
Global firms face increased pressure to address potential risks
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Reuters launches Mifid best execution software
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Mifid is new compliance priority, says report
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Swiss Re appoints new chief risk officer
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Movie Gallery in credit event auction
Troubled US video store chain Movie Gallery has seen the price of its loan derivatives fixed at 91.5% following a credit event auction.
Kroszner: “Investors less informed than they originally thought”
Investors in structured credit assets, such as collateralised debt obligations, recently “realised they were much less informed than they originally thought”, according to US Federal Reserve governor Randall Kroszner.
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Raging California wildfires trigger transmission emergency
The California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), which operates California’s open-market wholesale power grid, has issued a transmission emergency warning following four days of wildfires that have sparked the biggest US evacuation since…
JWG-IT highlights Mifid record-keeping risks
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UK FSA approves Omgeo transaction reporting
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Banks buy into TradeWeb as shift to electronic broking continues
Nine major banks have invested a total of $180 million in Thomson TradeWeb, as part of a deal that will see the Connecticut-based online fixed-income and derivatives marketplace expand into new areas.
Reuters launches new structured products platform
Trade and risk management vendor Reuters has launched the Kondor+ Structured Products (KSP) platform which enables users to design, price and manage the risk of structured products.