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OCC September 2024 Monthly Volume Data

Date 02/10/2024

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through September 2024 was 47.7 million contracts. Total monthly volume for September 2024 was 967,359,593 contracts.

CME Group To Launch Options On E-Mini Select Sector Futures And Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index Futures On October 28

Date 02/10/2024

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced plans to launch options on six E-mini Select Sector futures, as well as on Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index futures, on October 28, pending regulatory review.

Propellant Digital And FlexTrade Collaborate To Deliver Actionable Pre-Trade Insights To T. Rowe Price’s Fixed Income Trading Teams - T. Rowe’s Trading Teams Will Take Advantage Of Propellant’s Advanced Technology Solution

Date 02/10/2024

FlexTrade Systems (FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, and Propellant Digital (Propellant), a technology provider of transparency and trading data analytics, today announced T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (T. Rowe) is live and in production using Propellant’s extensive fixed income transparency data offering via FlexTrade’s EMS, FlexFI.

DTCC Appoints Andrea Gibbons As Managing Director, Chief Human Resources Officer - Gibbons Brings Over 25 Years Of HR Experience To Her New Role, With Her Last Decade Spent On DTCC’s HR Leadership Team

Date 02/10/2024

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Andrea Gibbons as Managing Director, Chief Human Resources Officer. Gibbons will join the DTCC Executive Committee and report to Francis (Frank) La Salla, DTCC’s President, Chief Executive Officer and Director. She replaces Anthony Portannese, who will serve as a strategic advisor to DTCC’s President and CEO, Frank La Salla, until he retires at the end of the year.

CME Group Sets New, All-Time Quarterly And September ADV Records Driven By Growth Across All Asset Classes

Date 02/10/2024

• Record quarterly ADV of 28.3 million contracts in Q3, up 27% year-over-year
• Record September ADV of 28.4 million contracts, up 25% year-over-year
• Record quarterly and September interest rate ADV
• Record quarterly SOFR futures and U.S. Treasury complex ADV
• Record international ADV of 8.4 million contracts in Q3

Innovation In Digital Assets In The Financial System And The Bank − By Sasha Mills, Bank Of England, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, Given At Digital Assets Week

Date 02/10/2024

In her speech, Sasha Mills talks about how recent innovations in digital assets and payments pose both opportunities and risks to the Bank in meeting its monetary and financial stability objectives. Sasha highlights the Bank’s recent work on innovation, including our Discussion Paper on our approach to innovation in money and payments, the launch of our Digital Securities Sandbox, and experiments on wholesale payments.

Euroclear ESES CSDs Appoint Geert Desmedt As Chief Executive Officer

Date 02/10/2024

Euroclear ESES CSDs (Euroclear France, Euroclear Belgium and Euroclear Nederland) are pleased to announce the appointment of Geert Desmedt as Chief Executive Officer.

ESMA Publishes Latest Edition Of Its Newsletter

Date 02/10/2024

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its latest edition of the Spotlight on Markets Newsletter.

SIMEX 24 – A Major Market-Wide Simulation Exercise To Test The UK Financial Sector’s Resilience To A Major Operational Disruption

Date 02/10/2024

The Bank of England, in partnership with UK Finance, the financial sector and the other UK financial authorities (HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority), has undertaken its latest UK market wide simulation exercise, SIMEX 24. The simulation set out to exercise the UK financial sector’s ability to respond to a major infrastructure failure that would require a total shut down and restart of the sector.

FESE: Twelve Exciting Companies Make The Shortlist For The European Small And Mid-Cap Awards 2024

Date 02/10/2024

EuropeanIssuers, the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), and the European Commission are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 12th annual European Small and Mid-Cap Awards.