The companies, products and regulatory developments shaping the broker industry.
ICE aims to introduce ENWEX-linked wind-production futures on 14 December, allowing energy-market participants to address output risk separately from electricity price risk.
Combined lean-hog futures and options volume reached 209,363 contracts on 9 November, exceeding the previous daily peak by 4,415 contracts amid difficult livestock pricing.
A signed US interagency memorandum targets surveillance, structural risk and hedging-market coordination; it does not itself rewrite exchange futures contracts.
Industry bodies' response to the European Commission's emissions trading review frames financial liquidity as a tool for hedging, while remaining an advocacy position rather than a rule change.
A 26 October trading record underscores demand for offshore BRL hedging outside Brazilian trading hours, with notional value explicitly separated from exchange income.
Higher activity spans several expiry structures. Existing contract terms determine whether an exercised hedge becomes a continuing futures position or immediately settles in cash.
The central bank’s 15 October clarifications make rollovers, funding and daily reporting central to the new regime. The 20% requirement applies to dealers’ reserves, with scope determined by the hedge.