Intercontinental Exchange announced plans to introduce more than 50 additional cleared contracts in its OTC markets by the end of the first half of this year, with the first ten contracts expected to be available for trading beginning 3 March. The first set of products was to consist of ten OTC swaps contracts based on North American and Canadian financially-settled natural gas, which are already offered on the ICE platform. This introduction would be followed by additional cleared products "to enhance ICE's suite of cleared natural gas, power and oil contracts", the exchange said.
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced on 15 February today that it has entered into an agreement with London-based Intelligent Financial Systems to provide historical market data, beginning in April. The new system was to offer a "convenient web-based solution to satisfy the many requests from customers, academics and research firms for market data that...