Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Tom Groenfeldt
In the continuing drive to stay ahead of the markets and technology, it’s hard to remember what the front office of financial services looked like 20 years ago, never mind the back office infrastructure.
In Plumbers and Visionaries, Peter Norman writes the history of securities settlement and Europe’s financial markets, a project sponsored by Euroclear. […]
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Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Tom Groenfeldt
In the US, the futures exchanges in Chicago and New York have their own regulator…the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. And despite the fact they have moved into financial instruments in a big way that dwarfs pork bellies, they are beyond the purview of the SEC. In Congress, they fall under agriculture committees, and you can […]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Sherree DeCovny
Despite the gloom and doom, the beat goes on this side of the pond. Plans are in the works to start an electronic futures exchange, known as Four Seasons, to rival the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Among those said to be backing the platform are Bank of America, Barclays Bank, Citadel Investment, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, […]
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