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FICC’s Collateral In Lieu (CIL) eliminates both cleared margin and potentially bank balance sheet impact on clearing brokers from money fund sides of FICC-cleared Treasury GC repos. This can remove the incremental funding and capital costs of the Treasury clearing mandate on money funds and their clearing brokers.

LONDON – 21 May 2026: ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporates, announces that ION LookOut TCA has won “Best Transaction Cost Analysis Solution for Best Execution” at RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2026. The A-Team RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2026 recognizes providers who are making a significant impact in the regulatory technology space.

ION Commodities will participate in Commodity Trading Week Americas 2026, a flagship event for the North American commodity trading industry organized by Commodities People. The conference brings together trading houses, energy majors, agricultural firms, banks, and technology providers to examine the challenges and opportunities shaping modern commodity markets.

This blog builds on our recent article in Global Mining Review, where we examined how the uranium market is evolving and what it means for producers, traders, and consumers. A market reset, not a typical recovery After more than a decade of stagnation following Fukushima, uranium has re-entered the global energy conversation. Demand is rising, prices have recovered, and nuclear energy is once again being positioned as a reliable, low-carbon power source.

Wedbush Securities and ION respond to client demand, partnering to support event contracts LONDON– 28 April 2026: ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporates, announces the launch of XTP for Event Contracts.

An outline of the new Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Treasury Clearing Service (TCS) approach to trade novation, done-away and credit limits, trade and margin settlement, default resources and management, and margin segregation. I am grateful to ICE for sharing documentation and spending time outlining and discussing their new clearing service.

LONDON – 21 April 2026: ION Treasury, a global provider of treasury and risk management solutions for corporations, financial institutions, and central banks, today announces the introduction of Verification of Payee (VoP) capabilities across its treasury solutions. This enables customers to comply with a major EU payments regulation as it moves into active enforcement.

Key Takeaway The Cboe’s strategy-based margin framework requires traders to group option positions into few recognized strategies. This creates a massive combinatorial optimization problem to minimize the overall options margin requirements. Traditional greedy algorithms are fast, but they often settle for suboptimal groupings, locking up excessive amounts of margin.

The EU and UK regulators are following their own paths and timelines to improve transaction reporting. Firms will need to bridge the gap by using 2026 as a dual track year to get their engines started. Technology will be an important component but so too will selecting the right vendors.

LONDON – 13 April 2026: ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporates, announces that ION’s XTP Execution has won “Best Listed Derivatives Trading Solution” at TradingTech Insight Awards – Europe 2026.