• Speculators in the crosshairs
  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is considering implementing position limits for buy-side players trading energy products, potentially restricting the number of positions traders can take on futures exchanges. Stewart Eisenhart reports




• Dabbling in the dark
  Dark pools started to appear as early as a decade ago in the US market, but it has only been over the course of the last two years that they have attracted sufficient liquidity – perhaps as much as 12% of US equity orders and 4% in Europe – to make them a significant player in the global equity markets.

Ignis chooses Eclipse for listed and OTC derivatives processing

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AGF Management opts for integrated Eagle offering

State Street extends alternative investment capabilities through Mourant acquisition

Greg Conley has taken the reigns at Swiss front- and middle-office technology developer Odyssey Financial Technologies. He discusses efforts he’ll lead to manage the firm’s growth across private banking, wealth management and asset management client bases. Interview by Stewart Eisenhart

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Progress Apama’s Giles Nelson speaks to Victor Anderson about high-frequency trading in the US markets, and how this practice is currently polarising opinions on both sides of the Atlantic. He also explains how his firm’s technology supports such strategies and questions the appropriateness of regulations curbing such practices.

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