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OCC March 2025 Monthly Volume Data

Date 02/04/2025

OCC, the largest equity derivatives clearing organization in the world, reported an average daily volume of 57,730,992 contracts year-to-date as of March 2025. In addition, the total trading volume for March 2025 reached 1,234,912,399 contracts.

CME Group To Launch Spot-Quoted Futures, Providing Innovative New Trading Opportunities For Retail Investors

Date 02/04/2025

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced plans to launch Spot-Quoted futures on June 30, pending regulatory review.

Every Second Counts – The Challenges Facing Compliance Chiefs

Date 02/04/2025

• Survey of 400 senior compliance leaders highlights major pain points - delayed critical data updates, incomplete information, and high false positive rates.
• Research shows that a complex and rapidly evolving risk landscape is making compliance more challenging than ever
• Financial consequences of non-compliance with global AML, can be severe
• More than half plan to invest in AI and machine learning

Verisk Acquires Nasdaq Risk Modelling For Catastrophes To Further Expand The Global Extreme Event Risk Assessment Ecosystem - The Combined Technologies Will Provide (Re)Insurers And Brokers With Access To Wider Views Of Risk, Facilitating Global Resilience For Individuals, Communities And Businesses

Date 02/04/2025

Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading global data analytics and technology provider, and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that Verisk has acquired Nasdaq subsidiary Simplitium Limited, which owns and operates Nasdaq Risk Modelling for Catastrophes (NRMC), a SaaS platform that supports an open ecosystem where specialized model partners make their models, hazard data and analytics available to the industry to help assess and address the global insurance protection gap. The acquisition will provide Verisk clients with access to 300+ third-party models, providing unique, niche views of risk across the globe. 

LME Data Highlights: Q1 2025

Date 02/04/2025

Overview

In Q1 2025, LME average daily volumes (ADV) were up 5.9% on Q1 2024. This quarter registered the second highest quarterly ADV in the last 11 years, while March 2025 saw the third highest monthly ADV in the last 10 years.

CFTC Commissioner Goldsmith Romero To Speak On Panel At 2025 Trilateral Commission Global Meeting

Date 02/04/2025

BlockFills Leverages Fordefi To Enhance Secure DeFi Access, Empowering Venture Capital And DeFi Communities Across Blockchains

Date 02/04/2025

BlockFills, a premier destination for digital asset trading and market technology leveraged by institutions and professional traders, and Fordefi, a self-custody multi-party computation (MPC) platform built for institutions to securely access decentralized finance (DeFi) across multiple blockchains, announced that they have partnered to enable BlockFills to access Fordefi’s cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure. Expanding its token coverage and meeting clients’ growing interest in DeFi trading opportunities, BlockFills will leverage Fordefi’s extensive supported blockchain networks. Customers of Fordefi – including venture capital (VC) firms investing in blockchain projects and the DeFi community – will also have access to BlockFills’ comprehensive trading capabilities across a broad range of digital assets.

DTCC Announces New Platform For Tokenized Real-Time Collateral Management - New Platform Marks Industry-First Use Of AppChain Financial Infrastructure To Support Institutional Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Date 02/04/2025

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced a digital collateral management platform. DTCC and industry leaders will demo the new platform in a live event, “The Great Collateral Experiment” on April 23, representing a diverse cross-section of financial market assets and participants. It’s the first industry demonstration developed on DTCC’s digital ecosystem that launched last October – DTCC Digital Launchpad.

Unique Off-The-Shelf Timestamping And Tap Aggregation Solution For Capital Markets Announced By LDA

Date 02/04/2025

LDA Technologies (LDA), the leader in developing advanced ultra-low latency FPGA and network solutions for capital markets, is announcing today NeoTap X, the only off-the-shelf timestamping and tap aggregation solution on the market to provide this level of enhanced bandwidth, extensive memory capacity and unique set of features, responding to the growing challenges of increasing data volumes. It is also unveiling its Neo X FPGA platform, which delivers uniquely high processing powers, enabling clients to develop highly sophisticated products.

CME Group Sets New, All-Time Quarterly ADV Record Of 29.8 Million Contracts, Driven By Growth Across All Asset Classes

Date 02/04/2025

• Second-Highest March ADV of 30.8 million contracts, up 27% year-over-year
• Record quarterly ADV for interest rate, equity index, agricultural, foreign exchange and cryptocurrency products
• Record quarterly ADV in U.S. Treasury and Henry Hub Natural Gas complexes
• Record quarterly international ADV of 8.8 million contracts