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Will FTSE 100 liquidity shift to the continent?

Competition in European equity derivatives markets is like London buses – you wait years for one to come and two come along at once… So it is with FTSE 100 futures and options which in the coming months will see two launches seeking to wrest liquidity from ICE Futures Europe’s current monopoly of the market.

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We need to talk about post-trade

Back in April, a snap Acuiti poll in the wake of the unprecedented volumes on global derivatives markets found that 58% of sell-side respondents experienced major issues with back-office processing and trade reconciliations.

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What’s the endgame in the LIBOR transition?

No one expected the transition away from LIBOR to be easy. At the outset, in fact, some doubted whether the transition was even possible. However, with 14 months left before the expected cessation of LIBOR as a regulated benchmark, the transition certainly remains achievable on schedule.

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