Quieter Trading Tilts Broker Ranks - Wall Street Journal

Quieter Trading Tilts Broker Ranks Wall Street Journal EBS, a unit of broker ICAP PLC, controls more volume than Thomson Reuters in the Swiss and Japanese currencies, where trading has slowed sharply since central-bank interventions in September and October. Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters is stronger in ...

Insight: Two firms flourish in frenzied MF Global aftermath - Reuters

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Insight: Two firms flourish in frenzied MF Global aftermath Reuters The fact that MF Global's client base was vast, diverse but typically quite small - from retail speculators to professional energy traders to agriculture hedgers and "introducing brokers" - meant that no single broker could or would take on all those ... CME Will Protect Farmers' HedgesWall Street Journal CME Group needs to break Wall Street's tight gripCrain's Chicago Business U.S. farmers, ranchers owed $100 million by MF GlobalThomson Reuters News & Insight New York Times all 11 news articles »

MF Global risk chief urged caution on trades - Financial Times

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MF Global risk chief urged caution on trades Financial Times MF Global's former chief risk officer “highlighted the increased default and liquidity risks” associated with its $6.3bn “repurchase-to-maturity” trades in written and oral presentations to the futures broker's board of directors at its August meeting, ... MF Global Cut European Exposure in August, Risk Officer SaysBusinessWeek Burned MF Global customers may be out of luckCBS News MF Global Began Cutting European Risk in August, Stockman SaysBloomberg Reuters UK -Wall Street Journal -FINS all 327 news articles »

Aritas Ranked #1 "Tough Trades" Broker Again - MarketWatch (press release)

Aritas Ranked #1 "Tough Trades" Broker Again MarketWatch (press release) has issued its new global ranking of broker execution quality which, for the period Q4 2010 - Q3 2011(1), shows Aritas: Ancerno calculates that Aritas' trades had the greatest average degree of trade difficulty, as shown by the Day Placement Strike ... and more »

Australia Foreign-Exchange Trading Volumes Slump - Wall Street Journal

Australia Foreign-Exchange Trading Volumes Slump Wall Street Journal On Friday Interdealer broker ICAP PLC reported that average daily spot currency volumes handled by EBS slumped 23% in January compared with a year earlier. In Sydney, total average daily trading volume in all over-the-counter foreign-exchange ...