Futures markets have a safer and more efficient margining system and clearing mechanism compared to securities markets. This could attract investors and high-frequency traders to the futures exchanges ...

CHICAGO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - In a head-to-head contest in a small corner of agricultural futures markets, a legacy spring wheat contract that has traded for more than 140 years is fending off a ...

Competition between the dominant futures exchange and the major securities exchanges is driven by two new factors -- the death of LIBOR and the competitive insignificance of trade matching. The death ...

The MCX and the National Stock Exchange, or NSE, have removed the additional margins that were recently imposed on gold and silver futures contracts. In simple language, traders now need to block less ...