Lukka, a leading institutional crypto software and data provider, announced that it will now be available through Bloomberg, in Terminals and through Bloomberg’s enterprise redistribution platform, B-Pipe. The Bloomberg Terminal has chosen Lukka as the first institutional provider of Fair Market Value (FMV) crypto asset data to offer to its global customer base. In an increasingly scrutinized industry where standards and rules are still developing, topics such as price manipulation and data quality are in the spotlight. Lukka’s proprietary methodology provides FMV of actively-traded crypto...

StoneX Group’s subsidiary StoneX Financial will now give clients access to a full suite of physically deliverable environmental futures and options contracts via the Nodal Exchange. A story in The Trade news said the move will allow StoneX Financial’s clients to adopt and maintain environmentally conscious business practices, manage risk effectively and achieve regulatory compliance. StoneX said the contracts span markets including sustainable energy, carbon emissions, renewable fuels, and pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. With increasing interests in corporate...

Goldman Sachs has launched a new tool for options price discovery and trade idea generation, named Visual Structuring, which is available through Goldman Sachs Marquee. Initially with FX options, the new tool offers a mobile-first approach to speedily price variations, assess scenarios, conduct back-testing analysis and enhance collaboration between colleagues. “We genuinely believe that Visual Structuring will revolutionise the way that people seek to price, understand and structure FX options. More than that, we believe it could transform the way that people collaborate on options trade...

The bank says the new service’s functionality has been “purposefully designed to better enhance services, solutions and automation, allowing institutions and applications to speak to each other through an integrated dashboard, yielding cost savings while maximizing trading and workflow efficiency.” Clients will have the flexibility to build custom tailored workflow solutions while leveraging a user interface for a smart, consistent user experience throughout the client journey, it adds. A dedicated toolbar summarises, monitors and informs users about what needs attention, thus bringing an...

Jordan & Jordan, a Veteran Owned financial technology company that provides Market Data solutions, technology and industry regulatory and research collaboration through FIF (fif.com) and RIXML (Rixml.org), announced the promotion of Jim Sudol to Managing Director of the Market Data Services, Kathy McGovern to Managing Director of Marketing and Human Resources, and Kathleen Callahan to Director of Market Data Services. Jim’s responsibilities focus on the management of the market data practice with a core objective of meeting customer market data needs through specific client assignments...

The New York Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. announced a new agreement to support cross-border investment between the U.S. and Japan by collaborating in areas including product development, marketing, and information sharing. The two exchanges signed the memorandum during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the NYSE. The agreement was finalized in a ceremony on the NYSE trading floor. The NYSE and TSE have developed a cooperative relationship over decades, including the signing of an agreement on cooperation in February 2000 and the establishment of a...

MSCI and Bloomberg have announced that they have teamed up on a new suite of ESG indices covering China fixed income. Bloomberg and MSCI said that this would comprise nine ESG indices that track the performance of the renminbi-denominated and US dollar-denominated bond markets. The newly launched indices include three flagship ESG indices based on the Bloomberg China Aggregate Index, the Liquid China Credit Index and the China USD Credit Index. The Bloomberg MSCI China ESG indices are an expansion of the Bloomberg MSCI ESG fixed income index suite, which comprises a range of investment...

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced the continued expansion of its S&P 500 Index (SPX) options suite with additional expirations for SPX Weeklys Tuesday and Thursday options, beginning September 19 and September 28, respectively. Total volume in SPX Tuesday and Thursday options have surpassed 44 million contracts since their launch in second-quarter 2022, reflecting strong customer interest and trading activity. The additional expirations for SPX Tuesday and Thursday options will align with the number of expirations currently available for SPX Monday and Wednesday options and meet...

Bringing liquidity and greater access to crypto trading, global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. has announced a partnership with Coinbase, offering interoperability between Coinbase Prime and Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions' NYFIX order-routing network. Coinbase Prime is a comprehensive solution that provides an advanced trading platform, secure custody and prime services to manage crypto assets in one place. Coinbase Prime not only offers aggregated access to the majority of the market's crypto liquidity via a...