1. Investigators suspect Yamaichi made its payments to Koike by transferring profits made on futures trades on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. 2. More efficient computer networks and competition from off-exchange brokers are changing the way trillions of dollars in futures contracts trade around the world each week. 3. More efficient computer networks and competition from off-exchange brokers are changing the way trillions of dollars in futures contracts trade globally each week. 4. Spread trade figured prominently in the volatile crude futures trade, with some outright selling of the November contract and some rolling over positions, traders said. 5. They have been banned from brokering futures trades for other companies or individual customers, an exchange official said. 6. Value Line futures and ISDEX futures trade on the Kansas City Board of Trade. 7. An team of experts from the central bank is also examining the possibility of allowing futures trade in gold, he said. 8. But he added that the US central bank and other market regulators were closely watching events in this relatively new area of futures trade. 9. Leeson was first held on one charge of forging a Citibank document to obtain financing for his futures trades. 10. Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on Sunday said the collapse of the Barings group over failed futures trades would have minimal impact on markets. |