We are proud to announce the launch of online bond trading coming soon to GTS. With this revolutionary shift in bond trading, clients will gain access to transparent, cheaper, and more efficient trading of fixed income products. Whereas most bond trading is only available over a slow, inefficient manual “request-for-quote” basis, this will allow clients to utilize the full range of prices and liquidity available in the market to execute most orders within seconds. More information will follow later this month.

Greeks and implied volatility are now available on Futures Options traded on the CME Globex exchanges in the Option Chain and Trade Tickets in GTS and GTS Pro.

IRS Section 871(m) is a new piece of regulation from the US tax authority (the IRS) and the US Treasury Department. Its aim is to impose tax on dividend-equivalent payments for derivative instruments with a US-based underlying equity. The regulation will come into effect on January 1st 2017. Positions entered into on or after this date will be subject to tax on any dividend payment. Listed options with a US equity as an underlying asset will also be covered by similar legislation from January 1st 2018. For more information, please see: here

To improve breakdown of the Account Value across cash, margin and Option positions, the value of Options positions will be itemised separately in Account Overview.
Currently, in the Account details in GTS and GTS Pro:

• The value of FX Options is currently included under P/L, Margin Positions
• The value of Exchange Traded Options is currently included under Market value, Cash Positions

A new dedicated Value of options field will be added in January 2017 and the values of FX and Exchange Traded Options will be moved to this new field.