Futures & Exchange-listed Products

NYSE Euronext today announced that Alan van Griethuysen has been named president of the Association of Futures Markets (AFM).

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced it has extended its TLM Reconciliations-Premium solution for Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETDs) to meet the processing requirements of sell-side organisations.

New Financial Instruments Clearing Membership (FICM) Provides Margin Benefits of up to 65 Percent

Deutsche Bank today announced it has gone live with dbClear Listed Derivatives Matching. The new service will provide Deutsche Bank’s clients with real-time visibility into the futures and options trade life cycle from execution to settlement. Clients will benefit from improved risk management, seamless trade processing and enhanced client service.

Provides More Precise, Convenient Trading of U.S. Dollar vs. Basket of Major Currencies

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the launch of the new Dow Jones CME FX$INDEX. The index will serve as the basis of a new futures contract, which is expected to launch in the third quarter 2010. The contracts will be listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CME.

Introduction on 25 May/ Further extension of established and successful dividend-based derivatives product suite

ICE Futures U.S., a leading regulated U.S. futures exchange for global agricultural, equity index and currency markets, today announced the introduction of two new futures contracts based on Russell Investments' industry-leading U.S. stock indexes. The Russell 1000(R) Growth and Russell 1000(R) Value Index futures contracts will begin trading on May 3, 2010.

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today announced that on 15 March 2010, ICE Futures Europe will launch a new natural gas futures contract based on the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) in the Netherlands. The Dutch TTF Natural Gas futures contract will trade alongside ICE's U.K. NBP Natural Gas futures contract, bringing together two of the most liquid European gas hubs on a single, globally distributed platform for the first time.

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, announced a new daily volume record for the ICE Gasoil futures contract. On February 10, 343,672 Gasoil futures contracts traded on ICE Futures Europe -- the second consecutive daily volume record for Gasoil futures, and the first in excess of 300,000 contracts. A Gasoil open interest record of 670,822 contracts was established on February 8.

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today announced the first cleared trades of its Platts Iron Ore 62% IODEX swap contract.

The first cleared transactions were submitted to ICE Clear U.S. on 5 February 2010 by London Dry Bulk Ltd. on behalf of Cargill and an additional counterparty. ICE introduced the cleared Platts IODEX swap contract in December 2009.