Services
Fimat has established Professional Trading Group Solutions, offering global clearing, execution and financing services across all asset classes for professional trading groups worldwide and offers cross border, multi asset class margin financing. www.fimat.com.
Indexes
The U.S. Futures Exchange will launch derivatives products based on the following International Securities Exchange Sector Indexes: the Water Index, Homebuilders Index, Gold Index, Revere Natural Gas Index and the SINdex, composed of alcohol, tobacco and gaming companies. Also, USFE will list seven contracts derived from NORDIX financial wind indexes. www.usfe.com.
Standard & Poor’s and the Chicago Board Options Exchange are now publishing the CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Index. Also, the CBOE Futures Exchange has launched two new volatility index futures contracts on the CBOE Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index and the CBOE Russell 2000 Volatility Index. www.cboe.com.
CME Group and Standard & Poor’s launched three S&P equity index derivatives products: The E-mini S&P SmallCap 600 index futures, the S&P SmallCap 600 index futures, and options futures on the E-mini S&P MidCap 400 index. www.cmegroup.com.
FTSE Group and Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC) now offer The FTSE IDFC India Infrastructure Index Series to access the Indian companies listed on the National or Bombay Stock Exchanges in India that generate revenue from infrastructure. www.ftse.com/india.
Deutsche Börse launched two new indexes: the new DAXplus Minimum Variance Germany strategy index and the DAXplus Minimum Variance Germany. www.deutsche-boerse.com.
Technology
EminiForecaster.com has released PivoTracker, a cycle analysis product that predicts future market pivots in stock indexes using a proprietary algorithm. www.EminiForecaster.com.
RTS Realtime Systems Group now offers access to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange. www.rtsgroup.net.
ICAP has enhanced its EBS Live data feed to include improved processing latency, improved EBS Live communications latency and soon will pilot Fast FIX, which further reducing transmission latency. Also, ICAP plc now offers a GBP/JPY tradeable currency pair. www.icap.com.
Interactive Brokers LLC’s global direct access platform now includes Australian Stocks and Swedish Stock Options. www.interactivebrokers.com.
Energy
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has added gasoil crack differential, settled on 1st line ICE Brent crude and ICE gas oil futures, and 1st line Dubai swap, Platts settlement OTC contracts. Also, several new bilateral contracts were listed, including the Dubai, Oman, Tapis, Upper Zakum and Minas delivery points. www.theice.com.
The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) now lists two cash-settled ethanol swap contracts on NYMEX ClearPort: The Chicago Ethanol (Platts) Swap and New York Ethanol (Platts) Swap. Also, Nymex now offers RBOB gasoline and heating oil options on CME Globex. Also, Nymex has launched a Brent crude oil last day futures contract. Also, Nymex will introduce 21 new petroleum product swap futures contacts. www.nymex.com.
Exchanges
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange launched dollar-settled world currency options on the Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and Canadian and Australian dollars. www.phlx.com.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange launched options on the HealthShares Emerging Cancer ETF. Other new listings include: Barnes Group Inc, Crane Co. Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd., Xinhua Finance Media Ltd., FCStone Group Inc., The Blackstone Group L.P. Alliance One International Inc., Associated Banc-Corp., Belo Corporation, DepoMed Inc., National Financial Partners Corp., Teledyne Technologies Inc. www.phlx.com.
Alyuda Research announced integration between Tradecision trading software and FOREX.com/GAIN Capital brokerage services. The new version of Tradecision also supports tick data and Time & Sales from eSignal. www.tradecision.com.
The American Stock Exchange and Ameristock Corporation launched five new U.S. Treasury exchange traded funds based on one-,two- five-, 10- and 20-year Treasuries. www.amex.com.
