Bringing Asia’s Central Banks Together
CME Group hosted a two-day series of training sessions for central bankers from countries across Asia last week. The success of the event is reflected in the attendance by representatives of central...
View ArticleHow European Central Banks Use Futures Markets
The uncertainty in Europe following the French and Greek elections in early May and the threat of an extended crisis has placed the European Central Bank back in the spotlight. As the Wall Street...
View ArticleTom Daschle on What Drives Food Prices
With drought continuing to impact the Midwest, and the USDA lowering its estimates for expected yields this year, many analysts and market watchers have suggested the real possibility that the...
View ArticleThe Increased Role For Post-Trade Services
In a world where it’s becoming almost as important what happens after a trade is completed as when the trade itself happens, the role of the post-trade service provider is crucial to the flow of...
View ArticleQ&A with Chong Kim Seng, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives CEO
Since he became CEO of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad in December 2009, Chong Kim Seng has overseen a lot of changes at the exchange. The crude palm oil futures contract has grown as a global...
View ArticleQ&A with Edemir Pinto, BM&FBOVESPA CEO
Brazil’s emergence on the world economic stage over the last decade has delivered increased investment and foreign trade to the country’s economy. BM&FBOVESPA (BVMF), Brazil’s leading financial...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Learned About Speculation
Speculation has been a point of contention throughout the history of commodity futures markets. In that sense, the current controversy is nothing new. The long battle over speculation that played...
View ArticleHow Markets Help Create Food Security
When people talk about food security, what first comes to mind are usually things like people starving in developing countries, the rising price of food globally, or adverse weather conditions that...
View ArticleEU Update: The Dynamics of German Client Clearing
Editor’s Note: As regulation and new rules for clearing move forward in the United States with Dodd-Frank and the European Union with EMIR, we’re taking a look at the changing landscape, and some of...
View ArticleFOW Award Winners Announced
Our business is one built on a culture and history of innovation and as an organization we are constantly looking for ways that we can help our global set of customers better manage risk. Last week...
View ArticleChicago Fed Economist on The Impact of The 2012 Drought
Incredibly, variability in crop quality will stand out as one of the hallmarks of a drought-hit 2012 growing season that will reverberate across the sector. That variability makes it difficult for...
View ArticleWhat Risk Management Means to Agriculture in 2013
The coverage of U.S. budget sequestration in agricultural news came with a bit of irony in one respect. The discussion of an issue requiring a solution in the short-term came as the USDA convened...
View ArticleAg Markets Outlook: Q&A with David Baudler of Cargill AgHorizons
If the drought of 2012 did not bring American farmers into the public conscience outside of the ag community, then Dodge’s now famous ad during the Superbowl certainly did. Global populations are...
View ArticleThe Challenges Facing China
2013 is already shaping up as a year China and its new leadership will have to confront some major structural challenges. And if delegates attending The Economist Bellwether China Conference in...
View ArticleEU Update: Cyprus Still Has Options
Everyone knew that the Cyprus bailout would be difficult, but few expected this tiny island to undermine the euro area so significantly. On March 19, Cyprus became the first country to stand up to...
View ArticleQ&A With Winners of the 2013 Commodity Trading Challenge
Trading has its own collegiate tournament in March, and last week it crowned a champion. The CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge came to a close March 18, and for the second time in three years, a...
View ArticleFutures Now Awarded Best of the Web
Last October CNBC chartered new territory with the launch of Futures Now, the first broadcast and digital program exclusively about futures markets. Futures Now is aimed at retail traders and...
View ArticleWhy USDA Reports Matter to Ag Markets
As crop reports go, this week’s 2013 USDA Prospective Plantings release is one of the big ones. It will give the first official view of the U.S. grain supply for the 2013 growing season. Perhaps more...
View ArticleThe Increased Role For Post-Trade Services
In a world where it’s becoming almost as important what happens after a trade is completed as when the trade itself happens, the role of the post-trade service provider is crucial to the flow of...
View ArticleQ&A with Chong Kim Seng, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives CEO
Since he became CEO of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad in December 2009, Chong Kim Seng has overseen a lot of changes at the exchange. The crude palm oil futures contract has grown as a global...
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