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 ...

The Chicago-based Intelligent Medicine Exchange (IMX) has been designated a contract market by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), making it the first health care futures and options ...

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 ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in 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 ...