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...Eurex had a faster electronic system while CBOT, like Liffe, still relied on trading by humans in noisy pits....
...The bitcoin futures will be cleared via the Options Clearing Corporation, the exchange said....
...But authorities worried the move to electronic market has encouraged the behaviour, and it became illegal as part of the 2010 Dodd Frank Act....
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...New rules for trading swaps, which are used by banks and corporations to either hedge or take exposure to fluctuating interest rate and currency moves, have dramatically altered the market in the US....
...(Reuters) EA creates esports division Electronic Arts is pushing into esports with a new branch of the company: the EA Competitive Gaming Division....
...While most of the dealers have gone electronic, many of their customers such as asset managers and pension funds still rely on manual labour....
...BATS Global Markets, the second-largest US stock exchange operator by volume, has named high-profile trading executive Chris Concannon from Virtu Financial, the electronic market maker, as its new president...
...“The G20 rules are still being implemented but volume on the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation is bigger than the CME.”...
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Ms Fontan points to the example of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which tried to crack European equities clearing, as regulation demanded competition in equities trading....
...Swaps are typically used by banks and large corporations to hedge their risk, and is a market dominated by large broker-dealers....
...Regulators are pushing for more trades to move on to electronic trading venues and be processed through clearing houses, which guarantee trades between two parties if one defaults....
...Buying a DMM licence also gives the trading firms such as Knight direct contact with big corporations and fund management firms whose stocks they oversee....
...Bill Moggridge’s awakening to the downside of the electronic age came at 4am one day in 1983....
...As much a metaphor for bloated, consumerist America as it is a very good tale....
...‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’, V&A Museum, London, September 24-January 15, www.vam.ac.uk Exhibition supported by Friends of the V&A with further support from Barclays Wealth...
...Mr Bürkner says: “It’s not easy for emerging market companies when they come to Europe or North America or Japan....
...In 1939, he backed two star pupils, William Hewlett and David Packard, to start an electronics firm....
...US in Philips ’ global league table of consumer sales....
...“Our electronic trading clients will certainly benefit from UBS MTF and we are excited to use this new trading platform.”...
...(It also always reminds me of the great line from the comedian Emo Philips: “The president said children are our most precious natural resource. Let’s hope it never comes to that.”)...
...Lehman Brothers financed much of 20th-century America: Pan American Airways, Philip Morris, Hertz Corporation....
...Jana’s last significant foray into European corporate activism was in 2007, when the company, together with hedge fund giant DE Shaw, took a 1.6 per cent stake in Philips, the electronics company....
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