Exchanges
SGX to launch world's first DRAM futures
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) plans to offer the world's first futures contract based on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips by the first quarter of 2003, according to the exchange.
Eurex to launch Europe’s first derivatives on ETFs
International derivatives exchange Eurex aims to launch Europe’s first futures and options on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in November.
Euronext Amsterdam hit by more technical problems
Euronext Amsterdam, the Dutch arm of the pan-European cash and derivatives exchange, halted derivatives trading for three and a half hours today due to a network problem. A Euronext spokesman was not able to elaborate on the matter, although he said all…
HEX prepares for weather derivatives launch
The Helsinki securities and derivatives exchange (HEX) will start trading weather derivatives from tomorrow.
Australia Stock Exchange to launch electricity futures
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is preparing to launch its electricity peak and off-peak futures contracts on October 14.
Euronext Amsterdam early for on-screen derivatives trading
Euoronext Amsterdam believes it will have moved all Dutch futures and options onto screen-based trading by December 9 – three months ahead of schedule.
eSpeed settles patent dispute with CBOT and CME
eSpeed, a subsidiary of interdealer broker Cantor Fitzgerald and developer of electronic trading technology, has settled its lawsuit against the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) over infringement on patented…
US single-stock futures venture lists more tradeable indexes
OneChicago, a joint venture of the three main Chicago derivatives exchanges formed in May 2001 to offer an electronic market for stock futures products in the US, has added seven 'narrow-based' equity indexes to an original eight it unveiled in March.
CME offers past derivatives data
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is offering a new service called CME E-History, a fee-based service that will automate the provision of historical price data for CME futures and options for analysing price trends.
Amex and Iverson to monitor ETFs
Iverson Financial has developed a new service, Amex ETF Monitor (AEM), for the American Stock Exchange as part of a two-month-old joint partnership agreement, RIskNews ' sister publication Inside Market Data has learned. Amex ETF Monitor is a published…
Macquarie to offer exchange-traded ELIs in HK by month-end
Australia’s Macquarie Bank is looking at listing Equity Linked Instruments (ELIs) on the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEx) by the end of August, according to Matthew Long, Macquarie's Hong Kong-based associate director for equity derivatives sales.
Ice to launch clearing for UK natural gas
Energy trading platform IntercontinentalExchange (Ice) is to begin clearing its UK over-the-counter natural gas contract on September 12.
WBOT eyes October launch
Atlanta-based Weather Board of Trade (WBOT) is set for a mid-October launch, according to Dan Parker, WBOT president.
FIA issues best-practice error trade recommendations
The Futures Industry Association (FIA) has released recommendations regarding the adoption of error trade procedures on derivatives exchanges, following a year-long special review committee investigation into the matter with principal international…
Euronext maps out derivatives systems migration
Derivatives traded on Euronext Brussels and Euronext Paris will migrate within nine months to Liffe Connect, the electronic trading system developed by the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) before its takeover of £555…
ICE to offer power clearing
Atlanta-based commodities market-place IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation (the Clearing Corporation) are to offer clearing services for the most actively traded over-the-counter US power products beginning at the…
Eurex gains control of a/c/e as alliance with CBOT is ‘restructured’
European derivatives exchange Eurex has acquired full ownership of a/c/e, the electronic trading platform it shared with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). The move restructures a partnership agreement with the Chicago exchange which has been in place…
Purple patch for green trading as EOR grows
CO2e.com, the Toronto-based environmental trading arm of broker Cantor Fitzgerald, has brokered the largest publicly announced green forward trade. The deal, which comprises a forward firm purchase of 6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2eq…
Borsa Italiana to launch single-stock futures
Borsa Italiana’s Idem market, the derivatives arm of the Milan-based Italian exchange, is to launch trading of single-stock futures on July 22.
Australian derivatives on the SFE now available in US
Two futures commission merchants, Carr Futures and Refco Group, will provide US-based customers with direct, electronic access to Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) listed derivatives.
Liffe debuts Schatz contract
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) says it is pleased with the turnover of its two-year Schatz German government bond futures contract which debuted yesterday. There were 16,020 Schatz lots traded on the exchange,…
CBOT to debut five-year swaps future
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will launch a futures contract on five-year US dollar interest rate swaps on Friday, following up on the success of its 10-year swaps contract, launched in October. The exchange also plans to offer options on the five-…
Battery failure caused HK futures trading stoppage
A dead battery led to the closure of Hong Kong's futures and options trading for than an hour on Tuesday, according to a preliminary investigation by the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx).