Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced that Cboe DataShop is offering customers access to its market data and trade analytics through a suite of four application programming interfaces. The APIs allow easy interaction with other websites or programs, facilitating customization of access for trading firms’ specific needs and budgets. The new Cboe DataShop APIs include: 1) Market Data API – which gives customers the ability to pull market information on demand with an API subscription; 2) Time & Sales API – the data used by every U.S. options exchange and by several large...

To cope with the ever-increasing number and complexity of cybercrime cases, enhanced international judicial cooperation is required. on March 6th and 7th, 2018, participants from more than 60 countries around the world met at Eurojust to gain a better understanding of the assistance available to practitioners in the pursuit of a common criminal policy toward cybercrime and the gathering of electronic evidence. The conference was co-organised by Eurojust and the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) within the framework of the Global Action on Cybercrime Extended...

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced the appointments of Andy Lowenthal and Bryan Harkins as Executive Vice Presidents and co-heads of the firm’s newly formed Markets Division. The new Markets Division unifies product, sales, business development and account coverage personnel across the company’s U.S. equities and options, ETP listings, global derivatives and FX businesses. They will be supported by multi-asset resource teams. Prior to this role, Mr. Lowenthal led Cboe’s global derivatives group, which included the exchange operator’s four options exchanges, Cboe...

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced that it plans to migrate Cboe Options Exchange to the company’s proprietary Bats technology on October 7, 2019. The planned migration of Cboe Options Exchange to Bats technology follows similar migrations for Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) and C2 Options Exchange. CFE was successfully migrated to Bats technology on February 25, 2018, while the planned migration of C2 Options Exchange is on track for May 14, 2018. Upon completion of the planned Cboe Options Exchange migration, all of the company’s equities, options and futures markets will...

Intercontinental Exchange, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, agreed to buy the Chicago Stock Exchange. As part of the deal, ICE will acquire all outstanding capital stock of CHX Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Chicago exchange, in the transaction. The transaction was unanimously approved by CHX Holdings' board and is expected to close this year, subject to regulatory approvals. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The CHX will continue to operate as a registered national securities exchange based in Chicago and anticipates no disruptions, said joint news...

Thomson Reuters has enhanced its investment portfolio risk management solutions on its financial desktop product, Eikon, through an agreement with MSCI.  MSCI RiskMetrics is now integrated within the Eikon platform, giving investment professionals access to multi-asset class risk analytics alongside Eikon’s capabilities for portfolio analytics and market monitoring, powered by Thomson Reuters data and news.  These capabilities are designed to assist investment professionals using Eikon to track market movements and monitor its effect on portfolios, while aligning...

Nasdaq announced the expansion and relaunch of Nasdaq’s Mutual Fund Quotation Service (MFQS) as Nasdaq Fund Network (NFN). Nasdaq Fund Network is a global investment product information service bringing greater transparency to the world’s financial markets. Nasdaq Fund Network provides the global investing public daily access to valuations for listed financial instruments, including mutual funds, money market funds, unit investment trusts (UITs), annuities, Separately Managed Accounts/Unified Managed Accounts, collective investment trusts, alternative investments, and...

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced that it plans to launch Cboe Market Close (CMC) on the company’s BZX Exchange on Monday, August 20, 2018, contingent upon the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reaffirming the staff’s initial approval. CMC was approved by SEC staff on January 17, 2018, after an extended and robust public comment period. Cboe submitted four comment letters responding to industry queries on CMC’s functionality over the course of the process. The mechanism, first proposed in May 2017, allows participants to route Market-On-Close (MOC) orders to CMC...

On Tuesday, March 20th, FIF along with a contingent FIF members met with the SEC Division of Trading and Markets, Chair Clayton, and Commissioners Stein, Jackson, and Peirce to discuss FIF's proposed Alternative CAT Implemenation Plan.