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This month, Nasdaq announced the first trade in its Custom Basket Futures (CBF), an innovative new contract designed to provide asset managers with flexibility, capital efficiency and counterparty risk mitigation.
Trump’s 2.0: What It Means for FCMs
With rising costs, regulatory complexity and increased client demands, the Future Commission Merchant (FCM) front-office is an arena of constant change.
The volatility that resulted from the initial spread of Covid-19 in the spring of 2020 led to record volumes in listed derivatives trades. Coming as the market transitioned to remote working in a matter of days, it is no surprise that post-trade infrastructures came under pressure.
Regulators across Europe are increasingly curbing activities in retail investing. Last year, Spanish regulators introduced a ban on CFD promotions and distribution, marking the latest move in a growing trend towards curtailing retail trading in OTC-based products such as CFDs.
In 2021, Acuiti was commissioned by HelloZero to conduct a study into derivatives reconciliations processes across the sell-side. In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic and the associated unprecedented level of volumes and operational disruption in listed derivatives markets, we found reconciliations were in need of investment.
A new report from Acuiti, produced in association with Nasdaq in conjunction with the launch of its Custom Basket Forwards, has found that investors are faced with a trilemma when it comes to the products they can leverage to execute their ESG, climate and thematic investments.
The current challenges faced by trade surveillance teams are likely to increase amid a rise in the volume of the types of alerts that are hard to detect and require the most time to investigate, the recent Trade Surveillance Market Review published by Acuiti and commissioned by Eventus, underscores these critical issues.
Crypto markets are set for further fragmentation as trading firms look to increase the venues they trade on, the Acuiti and BSO study into connectivity intentions amongst institutional trading firms has found.
A recent report by PwC predicted that one in six asset managers would close or be acquired by 2027 highlighted the challenges that the industry faces today.