Tagged: options

August 16, 2024 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has posted a Notice of Withdrawal of Proposed Rule Change to Amend ISE Options. Specifically, the NASDAQ has pulled its request to allow the exchange to list and trade options on units that represent interests in a trust that holds… Read More

May 12, 2024 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce plans to launch weekly single stock options for 10 Hong Kong-listed equities, the latest derivatives market enhancement that will give investors even more choice to manage risks and execute trading strategies. HKEX plans to… Read More

October 2, 2023 @ 3:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced that it will launch Micro Henry Hub futures and options on November 6, “pending all relevant regulatory reviews.” These new micro contracts will “be one-tenth the size of the company’s benchmark Henry Hub futures and options and cash-settled.” Peter… Read More

August 27, 2023 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TradeStation Securities, Inc., a self-clearing online brokerage for trading stocks, ETFs, options and futures, has announced its integration with Unusual Whales, an option flow platform and information service. This collaboration makes TradeStation “the first major U.S. multi-asset class broker dealer integrated into the Unusual Whales… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TradeStation Group, Inc., a Florida-based company whose operating subsidiaries provide self-clearing online brokerage services for trading stocks, ETFs, options, futures, and crypto that aim to offer the ultimate trading experience, has announced its integration with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. The… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Eventus, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced that SpiderRock Technology Services, a “high-performance” algorithmic execution and risk management technology provider to institutional trading clients, as well as agency broker-dealer and market data provider, has “deployed the Validus… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank has announced that it recently added new equity investment options to its C6 Invest platform. From now on, clients who were already able to trade mini dollar and index (Ibovespa) contracts since August last year “can also trade full futures contracts on the… Read More

March 8, 2022 @ 8:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Optiver Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) confirmed, earlier last month, that it took part in the Series A funding round for Paradigm, a trading platform for cryptocurrency options and futures. New York-based Paradigm is focused on supporting institutional-level liquidity for cryptocurrency derivatives through their chat-based multi-dealer… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 6:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FIA (Futures Industry Association) announced on November 2, 2021 that it has released a report calling on participants in the futures and options sector to work cooperatively on an initiative to enhance the overall efficiency of the trading and clearing process for exchange-traded derivatives. The… Read More

February 9, 2021 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

DASH Financial Technologies has announced that it has agreed to be acquired by ION Investment Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DASH is controlled by Flexpoint Ford, a private equity investment firm, that specializes in privately negotiated investments in the healthcare and financial… Read More

December 16, 2020 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

CME Group intends to launch Ether futures starting February 8, 2021, pending necessary regulatory review. CME states that the new contract will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate, which serves as a once-a-day reference rate of the U.S. dollar price of… Read More

November 4, 2020 @ 11:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services for the global capital markets, announced on Wednesday it has extended its Registered Vendor status to Cboe’s European equities market. Options noted it already holds Registered Vendor status for Cboe’s US equities markets. “In partnering with Cboe, one… Read More

September 4, 2020 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services for the global capital markets, announced on Friday it is further expanding into the cryptocurrency market through digital asset exchange, Gemini. Options reported that the announcement follows recent news of Options’ business operations growth across New Zealand, Australia,… Read More

April 14, 2020 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with the developers of the Atomic Asset Exchange (AAX), a Malta-based cryptocurrency trading platform that’s powered by LSEG technology, which is a part of the London Stock Exchange Group. Thor Chan, the CEO at AAX, explained why his company’s exchange platform… Read More

December 18, 2019 @ 10:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE) recently announced the first block trade of Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) Monthly Options (BTM) submitted to ICE Futures U.S. In a release, Trabue Bland, President of ICE Futures US, stated: “Based on our benchmark physically delivered bitcoin futures, these options contracts offer… Read More

December 9, 2019 @ 9:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OKEx, a Malta-based digital assets exchange, announced on Monday it is set to launch Options Trading, which will start on December 27th with simulation beginning on December 12th. “Options Trading is a type of derivatives trading that gives the buyer the ability to purchase or… Read More

October 24, 2019 @ 2:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Announced during the CFTC Fintech Forward 2019 today, digital asset exchange Bakkt will start offering Bitcoin options beginning this December. Kelly Loeffler,  Chief Executive Officer of Bakkt, revealed the news during a panel discussion on “Re-imagining Markets: What Digitization Means … for Transactions, Custody, and… Read More

September 23, 2019 @ 10:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

CME Group, also known as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has announced it is seeking regulatory approval to launch options on its Bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020. According to the relevant release: “CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it… Read More

May 22, 2017 @ 10:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ledger Holdings has closed on a $11.4 million Series B funding round. Ledger is the parent company of LedgerX, a Bitcoin options exchange that intends on operating a regulated exchange and clearing house for digital currencies.  The funding was led by Miami International Holdings Inc. (MIH)… Read More