Exchanges
Intercontinental Exchange’s Winnipeg Commodity Exchange subsidiary has transitioned trading in all of its products to the ICE electronic platform and changed its name to ICE Futures Canada.
Also, ICE Futures U.S. is implementing block trade capability for the Sugar No. 11, Coffee “C” and Robusta Coffee futures and options contracts, and for the Cotton No. 2, Cocoa and FCOJ-A options contracts.
Also, ICE Futures U.S. has implemented Trade At Settlement capability in the ICE electronic trading system for Russell 2000 Mini futures contracts. www.theice.com
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange now has penny increment trading for dollar-settled world currency options on the Euro, pound, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Japanese yen. www.phlx.com
NYSE Arca started new pricing for trading Nasdaq-listed securities and reduced routing fees for NYSE Arca and Amex-listed securities. www.nyse.com
Liffe-NYSE Euronext’s derivatives business will start listing daily options on the AEX index.
Also, Euronext launched a new series of strategy indexes, Leverage, Short and XBear, and opened its new broadband access service to members. www.euronext.com
The following ASPs will offer access to Liffe Connect: Bloomberg Tradebook, CQG, Fidessa, Ffastfill, GL Trade, RTS and Trading Technologies International. www.euronext.com
OneChicago is listing two new single-stock futures, PowerShares QQQ and iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund. www.onechicago.com
The Canadian Business Investor 500 and Tech 100 listings are now available in French on the TSX Group’s Web site. www.tsx.com
OMX Nordic Exchange will offer post trade anonymity in Helsinki and Iceland to all equity-related markets. www.omxgroup.com
The CME-Carvill Hurricane Index and CME-Carvill Hurricane Index cat-in-a-box futures and options on futures contracts’ first three events are now listed for trading. www.cmegroup.com
ISE Stock Exchange introduced a new fee structure, increasing its maker rebate to $0.0032/share. Also, ISE and Eurex completed their merger. www.ise.com
The SWX Swiss Exchange is introducing a new fee model, Directive 16, effective in April 2008. www.swx.com
NCDEX Spot Exchange, a subsidiary of India’s National Commodity & Derivative Exchange, now offers spot trading in sugar. www.ncdex.com
Forex
FXCM is in production with 29West’s messaging technology in its Forex System Selector. www.fxcm.com
FX Bridge Technologies launched an enhancement to its ProTrader Plus dealing platform. www.fxbridge.com
Options
OptionsHouse launched an application for online electronic funds transfers. www.optionshouse.com
UBS is launching a suite of algorithms for options. www.ubs.com
Indexes
Russell Investments added 121 IPOs to the Russell Global Index. www.russell.com
Other
PowerShares Capital Management is now listing three buy-write portfolios covering the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.www.powershares.com
Last Atlantis Capital Management now has LACM Long/Short Equity Share Class W, a 130/30 strategy that incorporates proprietary models to trade baskets of equities. www.lastatlantis.com
