March 11th, 2010 
Before You Invest Thursday, March 11, 2010 is the start of stock index futures roll-over at both CME Group and ICE Futures U.S.
Rollover is when a new contract month becomes the dominant contract in terms of new volume, for both pit (open outcry) and electronic trading sessions.
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Comments Off March 10th, 2010 Before You Invest Financial services provider UBS is to launch a “dark pool” Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) to allow cross trading in Europe.
According to the firm, UBS MTF will work alongside the existing UBS Price Improvement Network (UBS PIN) by offering a wider array of liquidity to its members.
The MTF is still awaiting regulatory approval and will be based on a Central Counterparty (CCP) model, which will allow investors to mitigate certain amounts of risk.
Dr Robert Barnes, head of Market Structures at UBS Investment Bank, said: “As we developed the architecture and interactivity model for UBS MTF, we were committed to greater simplicity, lower transaction costs and reduced market impact.
“As a global bank and one of the top equities trading firms, we aim to leverage our broad and deep market experience to help us to bring innovation, quality liquidity and a unique value proposition to our clients.”
All completed transactions will be reported in real-time to Markit Boat following the trade.
Previously, global investment bank Nomura announced the launch of NX MTF in December 2009, the first broker-owned dark pool MTF of its kind.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Central Counterparty, Cross Trading, Dark Pool, Dr Robert Barnes, Electronic Trading, Financial Services Provider, Global Bank, Global Investment Bank, Improvement Network, Launch, Market Experience, Market Impact, Market Structures, Multilateral Trading, Nomura, Price Improvement, Regulatory Approval, Ubs Bank, Ubs Investment Bank, Unique Value Proposition Comments Off December 16th, 2009 Before You Invest When Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme unraveled at the end of 2008, many in the industry wondered how he did it, how otherwise savvy investors were lured into it, and how regulators failed to stop it.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Advisory Business, Bernie Madoff, Broker Dealer, Brokerage Firm, Chicago Board Options, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), Classmates, Dealer Business, Electronic Stock Market, Electronic Trading, Fund Of Hedge Funds, Konig, Membership Deal, Money Deposit, Money Manager, Nasdaq Stock, Ponzi Scheme, S 65, Savvy Investors No Comments » October 2nd, 2009 Before You Invest Orange Business Services – Trading Solutions, the leader in convergent voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities, today announced the release of its innovative mobile call recording platform, which enables secure trading via mobile phones.
The call recording solution is designed with compliance requirements in the forefront and is both secure and cost effective. 
Henri Vautheny, Vice President
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Alliance Member, Anomalies, Asia Pacific, Business Continuity, Call Recording, Compliance Requirements, Disaster Recovery Plan, Disruption, Electronic Trading, Forefront, Fund Managers, Landlines, Legal Professionals, Pandemic, Private Bankers, Risk Alert, Secure Trading, Trading Solutions, Wealth Managers, Working Practices No Comments » August 28th, 2009 Before You Invest Getco LLC might not be a household name, but the private Chicago-based company with fewer than 250 employees is one of the largest players in high-frequency trading, often accounting for as much as 20% of daily trading volume of many stocks.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Accounting, Electronic Trading, Getco, High Frequency, Household Name, Llc, Money, Rosenblatt Securities, Schack, Stocks, Trading Co, U S Stock Market, Vice President, Wsj No Comments » June 24th, 2009 Before You Invest Smaller Gold and Silver Futures, More Possibilities for Your Portfolio
E-mini Gold and E-mini Silver futures are now available on CME Globex. The contracts are roughly 1/3 and 1/5 of the standard contracts, which serve as the global benchmarks for gold and silver pricing. At 33 troy oz.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Anonymity, Cash Settlement, Cme Globex, Contract Specifications, Customer Funds, Electronic Trading, Futures Market, Futures Trading, Global Benchmarks, Gold And Silver, Gold Futures, Gold Silver, Kilo, Liquid Metals, Market Participants, Platform Security, Price Transparency, Segregation, Silver Futures, Trading Platform No Comments » April 25th, 2009 Before You Invest Chicago Board Options Exchange profit fell 21% last quarter as CEO William Brodsky plowed money into developing an all-electronic trading outpost even as volume dropped on the CBOE’s existing platform.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: C2, Cboe, Cement, Chicago Board Options, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Doing Business, Electronic Exchange, Electronic Market, Electronic Trading, First Quarter, Last Quarter, Net Income, Options Market, Outpost, Rapid Fire, Recession, Rose 13, Stock Options, Straight Quarters, Volume Traders No Comments » April 23rd, 2009 Before You Invest In the midst of the global financial crisis, electronic foreign exchange experienced a boom in 2008, with overall e-forex trading volume surging 37% year-on-year.
Foreign exchange markets the world over have been lifted by historic levels of volatility and by the inflow of investors seeking liquid markets and “plain vanilla” assets.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Amario, Bank Transactions, Banking Crisis, Continental Europe, Electronic Systems, Electronic Trading, Exchange Volume, Foreign Exchange Markets, Foreign Exchange Trading, Fx Trading, Fx Volume, Global Banking, Global Financial Crisis, Global Foreign Exchange, Greenwich Associates, Inflow, Liquid Markets, Plain Vanilla, Severity, Volatility No Comments » April 22nd, 2009 Before You Invest The system was paid for with a $6.5 million grant from the U.S. government and has taken three years to install, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: 1 Million, 5 Million, Banks, Brokerage Firms, Electronic System, Electronic Trading, Foreign Investors, Hotels, Information Buyers, Iraq, Iraqis, Launch, Stock Certificates, Stock Exchange, Stocks, Turnover, Tv Screens, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal, Wsj No Comments »
