Photo: Leaprate The derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced four new Japanese electricity futures contracts and two new LNG futures contracts will be available for trading on Feb 8 2021, pending regulatory review. The addition of four new electricity futures contracts expand CME Group’s su

Photo: Leaprate The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that the court entered a consent order permanently banning Mark N. Pyatt from trading commodity futures and retail forex contracts for fraudulently soliciting individuals to place funds in a commodity pool and to misappropriating

Photo: Coindesk Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is “working on” a pre-listing futures market for Coinbase after the U.S.-based exchange announced its S-1 filing Thursday. In a direct message with CoinDesk, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said his team has plans to offer Coinbase futures once it gains clarity

Photo: Market London-based brokerage firm, Tickmill is expanding its product portfolio with the launch of futures trading to capitalize on the growing popularity for such instruments outside their traditional users. “After partnering with CME, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, we’re givin

Photo: Sao Paolo, Brazil (Bloomberg) Infinox appointed as market maker for S&P 500 Micro futures by Brazil’s B3 exchange London-based Infinox, the first UK company to make FX futures trading possible in South America, is now offering Brazilian investors affordable access to the benchmark S&P

Photo: FM FxSpotStream announced that it has onboarded Caryn Kim as its new Business Development Manager, effective immediately. Recently announced in a press release, Kim, a professional with experience in institutional Banking leadership and management, has been named by FxSpotStream, the aggregat

Photo: financebrokerage The history of the National Futures Association (NFA) dates back to the 1970s. More than 45 years ago, the U.S. Congress established the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Interestingly, the same legislation authorized the creation of registered futures associations

The move means that UK firms can qualify for time-limited relief from certain regulatory requirements. Photo: Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has provided further relief to UK firms, as well as their swap counterparties and affiliates, to resolve any issues that may arise in

Photo: Bloomberg Invast Global recently launched a new Index CFD product utilising market data derived from the trading of the highly popular Cboe Volatility Index® (the VIX® Index) futures contract offered by Cboe Futures Exchange℠. This is additive to the suite of equity services which Invast Glob

Photo: Reuters The cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bybit is launching quarterly futures contracts to expand its crypto derivates offerings. At present, the exchange has more than one million registered users, and the Bybit CEO Ben Zhou expects that these services will create a better trading exp

Photo: Coinbase Digital currency exchange, Coinbase announced that it will no longer offer margin trading services on Coinbase Pro. The company mentioned that due to the recent guidelines from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Coinbase Pro will disable new margin trades starting from