Tagged: derivatives

April 21, 2024 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced that its quarterly international average daily volume (ADV) reached a record 7.4 million contracts in Q1 2024, up 2% year on year. Reflecting all trading reported from outside the United States, volume was driven “largely by 38% growth in… Read More

April 21, 2024 @ 4:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ISDA has released a whitepaper from ISDA Future Leaders in Derivatives (IFLD), its professional development program for emerging professionals in the derivatives market. The whitepaper, GenAI in the Derivatives Market: a Future Perspective, was reportedly “developed by the third cohort of IFLD participants, who began… Read More

April 12, 2024 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Derivatives says its primary goal in launching new crypto futures contracts is to create markets that offer retail traders diversification, price discovery, risk management, and margin. Since launching their futures contracts for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC), they claim to have “seen deeper… Read More

April 9, 2024 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, a provider of institutional trading technology for digital assets, announced its integration with Coinbase Derivatives, LLC, a futures exchange registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), “expanding the avenues available for a growing number of institutional investors seeking to gain exposure to digital… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 5:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SmartStream Reference Data Services (RDS), a provider of financial reference data, has announced the launch of an enhanced derivatives data service, providing in-depth insights into futures related transactions. This expansion is said to be crucial for “meeting EMIR Refit reporting requirements.” The EMIR Refit initiative… Read More

March 1, 2024 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SynFutures V3, the latest version of the decentralized derivatives trading protocol, is live on Blast mainnet. Now that they’ve brought permissionless perps to Blast, users can reportedly “earn up to 3x the rewards potential through Blast, Blast Gold (Big Bang developer airdrop allocation), and our… Read More

February 20, 2024 @ 3:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini are pleased to announce the immediate availability of cross collateral on the Gemini derivatives platform — providing clients with more flexible funding options. With the introduction of cross collateral, clients are no longer “limited to only posting GUSD as collateral to trade derivatives on… Read More

December 26, 2023 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish, which claims to be among the “fastest-growing,” regulated, institutional digital assets exchange, recently launched perpetual futures for eligible customers following approval from its regulator, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). The growing dominance of the global crypto derivatives market, which “accounts for approximately 75%… Read More

December 11, 2023 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GFO-X announces that M&G Investments has led a $30 million Series B funding round for the company and will join the Board of Global Futures and Options Holdings. The investment will fund GFO-X through its forthcoming launch and “support future innovation in the regulated digital… Read More

December 1, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, which claims to be one of the world’s leading derivatives marketplaces,  announced that open interest in its deeply liquid U.S. Treasury futures “set a new record of 21,428,757 contracts on November 24.” This year, the notional value of open interest “in CME Group… Read More

November 19, 2023 @ 9:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

X-Change Financial Access (XFA), a division of Marex and an execution broker for exchange-traded derivatives, and Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, announced a partnership to automate quoting for flexible exchange options (FLEX options). Called FLEX-FA, the new platform… Read More

November 14, 2023 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At Gemini, they claim to be dedicated to delivering the “best possible” crypto trading experience for their users. Gemini says it is pleased to unveil “an important update to our derivatives trading ecosystem: mobile app trading.” In August, Gemini had unveiled the ability “to view… Read More

November 5, 2023 @ 7:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Derivio, a Binance Labs incubated institutional-grade decentralized derivatives trading platform, is thrilled to announce their mainnet launch on zkSync Era, a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Derivio seeks to unlock the full potential of decentralized trading and enhance how users engage with DeFi derivatives,… Read More

October 16, 2023 @ 4:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, a provider of institutional digital assets trading technology, announced its integration with Coinbase International Exchange, a licensed digital assets exchange that launched earlier this year. The integration allows mutual clients of Talos and Coinbase International Exchange based in eligible jurisdictions outside of the US… Read More

October 3, 2023 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset provider of real-time trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, and Cassini Systems, the provider of pre-and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives market participants, announce a strategic partnership that “will see enhanced, intelligent margin and collateral… Read More

August 18, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Modulus, a US-based developer of “high-performance” trading and surveillance technology that powers global equities, derivatives, and asset exchanges; government agencies and laboratories; and research universities, announced that the company was set to release new white label crowdfunding and private placement platforms for non-accredited investors. From… Read More

August 16, 2023 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has secured regulatory approval from the National Futures Association (NFA) to operate a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).  This will enable it to provide access to crypto futures trading for eligible customers. The NFA is a Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) designated self-regulatory organization…. Read More

August 7, 2023 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

D8X, an institutional-grade decentralized exchange (DEX) for derivatives on Polygon zkEVM, announced a $1.5 million pre-seed round with support from Polygon Ventures and various other investors. The capital will help D8X launch “a decentralized derivatives trading platform in the second half of 2023 that provides… Read More

July 26, 2023 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FalconX, which claims to be the most reliable digital assets prime brokerage for the world’s leading institutions, is releasing the only crypto derivatives offered by a CFTC-regulated swaps dealer. These contracts are settled “against indices administered by CF Benchmarks, the FCA regulated cryptocurrency index provider.”… Read More

July 16, 2023 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX, which claims to again have become the world’s “leading” crypto derivatives exchange, introduces a new concept in social trading for professional traders, Guilds . Currently in βeta (testing), Guilds is accessible “to all BitMEX users – new, existing and returning, offering them the opportunity… Read More