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  London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE, pronounced 'life' as in 'human life', and never 'liff-eee') was the name of a futures exchange based in London, prior to its takeover by Euronext in January 2002.
By the end of 1996 LIFFE was by far the biggest futures exchange in Europe, followed by the MATIF in Paris and the Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB) in Frankfurt.
The DTB was an electronic exchange founded in 1990 and the predecessor to Eurex.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_International_Financial_Futures_and_Options_Exchange   (484 words)

  
 London International Financial Futures Exchange - TheBestLinks.com - LIFFE, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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The London International Financial Futures Exchange, known as LIFFE (pronounced 'life' as in 'human life', and never 'liff-eee') is a financial futures market based in London.
www.thebestlinks.com /LIFFE.html   (222 words)

  
 Leo Melamed - Essays & Speeches - LIFFE
At the birth of the IMM and the conceptual introduction of financial futures, it was necessary first to convince the world financial community that financial futures are a necessary adjunct in the management of risk.
Financial futures are now an accepted fact of life on our shore and undoubtedly the realistic appraisal here as well.
The IMM, from its inception, recognized that the financial futures concept was of a global nature and thus in January 1980 opened an IMM office here in London—the first of its kind by an American exchange.
www.leomelamed.com /Speeches/82-liffe.htm   (2125 words)

  
 Financial Dictionary — Meaning for Sydney Futures Exchange
The exchange was renamed in 1972 to reflect its diversification from wool.
This was followed by the introduction of currency futures in 1980 and a share-price index futures contract in 1983.
A ten-year government bond futures contract was launched in 1984, exchange-traded options began trading in 1985 and three-year bond futures arrived in 1988.
www.anz.com /edna/dictionary.asp?action=content&content=sydney_futures_exchange   (298 words)

  
 LIFFE - London International Financial Futures Exchange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LONDON, Monday 29 March 1999 - The London Clearing House (LCH) and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) announced plans to establish a joint venture to identify new services for customers in wholesale financial markets.
London has a great asset in the London Clearing House which has an important role to play in the City’s future as well as LIFFE’s.
Richard Sandor, described as the father of financial futures and former vice-chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sir Brian Pitman of Lloyd's TSB, Alastair Clark, executive director of the Bank of England.
www.envifi.com /News/liffe.html   (500 words)

  
 Futures Exchanges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The development of financial futures and options exchanges began in Chicago, which can be considered the most important financial centre for derivative products.
In the eighties financial futures and options contracts arrived in Europe, approximately ten years after they were created in the United States.
A common characteristic in all countries that have developed derivatives exchanges has been the spectacular increase in traded voulmes, exceeding in many cases the traded volumes in the underlying assets traded in the spot market, which have also experienced considerable increases.
www.meff.es /ing/institute/Futures/mercs.htm   (195 words)

  
 MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A financial obligation, or the cash outlay that must be made at a specific time to satisfy the contractual terms of such an obligation.
Generally, the advantages of being listed are that exchanges provide: (1) an orderly marketplace; (2) liquidity; (3) fair price determination; (4) accurate and continuous reporting on sales and quotations; (5) information on listed companies; and (6) strict regulation for the protection of securityholders.
Contracts that state exchange rate at which a specified amount of a particular currency can be exchanged at a future date (more than one year from today).
www.menafn.com /Glossary/bfglosl.asp   (5515 words)

  
 Aftershocks: European Exchanges Focus on Post-Merger Integration, Joe Kolman, WallStreetContent.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Exchanges ended the year showing that they were more concerned with good digestion than with grabbing for more, and it was the clearing and settlement organizations that felt the urge to merge.
London has long been looking for ways to address its biggest weakness: its undiversified revenue stream.The LSE depends on trading in cash equities and therefore has been hurt by the downturn in the stock market.
That exchange is undergoing a painful shift from floor to screen trading in advance of the introduction of LIFFE Connect at the end of 2003.
www.eubfn.com /arts/WallStreetContent.htm   (2166 words)

  
 Financial futures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A financial future is a futures contract on a short term interest rate (STIR).
TIF is the Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange
Financial futures are extensively used in the hedging of interest rate swaps.
www.investitor.net /glossary/derivatives/Financial_futures.htm   (285 words)

  
 future option Resources & Information - fed funds future options december trade
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE, pronounced fed funds future options december trade 'life' as in 'human life', and never 'liff-eee') was the name of a futures exchange based in London, prior to its takeover by Euronext in January 2002.
This is when it changed its name to the London fed funds future trade options world International Financial Futures and Options Exchange.
The DTB was an electronic exchange founded in 1990 and the predesessor to Eurex.
www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Services-Fe---Hip/future-option.html   (469 words)

  
 BBC News | The Economy | Violence erupts at debt protest
London's financial district is counting the cost of a day of protest that turned violent.
Clashes flared up in the financial heart of London as police and protesters clashed during a 'Carnival against Capitalism' to mark the opening of the G8 world economic summit in Cologne.
A police spokesman confirmed: "The police van was surrounded by demonstrators on London Wall and was under heavy attack and was trying to extricate itself from that when this woman was knocked down," he said.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/the_economy/372537.stm   (670 words)

  
 London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Management) Business Articles From AllBusiness.com
With U.S. financial industry leaders fighting an 18-year-old federal statute banning trading on single stock futures, the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) anno...
Financial options contracts at the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Life) will end their pit trading April 28 to trade exclusively on Liffe Connect, the exchange's elec...
Shareholders of Liffe agreed to shrink the exchange's board of directors to 15 from 22.
www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/topic/2633699-1-2.html   (430 words)

  
 London Stock Exchange (LSE)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
London Interbank Bid Rate (LIBID) The bid rate that a Euromarket bank is willing to pay to attract a deposit from another Euromarket bank in London.
London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) A London exchange where Eurodollar futures as well as futures-style options are traded.
Long-term forward contracts Contracts that state exchange rate at which a specified amount of a particular currency can be exchanged at a future date (more than one year from today).
www.getfolio.com /glossary_finance/l6.asp   (1611 words)

  
 Analysis of Asset Allocation - Futures Introduction
Unlike options, a "futures contract" is not a right but well an obligation.
A commodity futures contract is a contract where the underlying asset is a commodity.
A financial futures contract is a contract where the underlying asset is a financial instrument such as a bond, an index, a currency, or an interest rate.
www.asset-analysis.com /futures/futintro.html   (191 words)

  
 REFCO > Resources > Single-Stock Futures
A futures contract is an agreement between two parties that commits one party to buy an underlying financial instrument (bond, stock or currency) or commodity (gold, soybean or natural gas) and one party to sell a financial instrument or commodity at a specific price at a future date.
A futures contract on a narrow based index is an agreement to buy or sell a basket of individual equities at a point in the future.
Single-Stock Futures are traded on the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE); the MEFF; NQLX, a joint venture among NASDAQ/American Stock Exchange and LIFFE: and OneChicago, a joint venture among The Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
www.refco.com /resources/rs.stock.asp   (568 words)

  
 Rand Financial Services
The New York Mercantile Exchange is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange, and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals, in North America.
Sydney Futures Exchange is a leading derivatives exchange in the Asia-Pacific region with over 36 million futures and options contracts traded annually.
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange is a non-profit membership organization which regulates all commodities futures and options trading in Japan.
www.rand-usa.com /c7_1.htm   (566 words)

  
 London International Financial Futures: Trading Power
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) builds LIFFE CONNECT, the most powerful electronic derivatives trading platform in the world, using Solaris Operating Environment on Sun hardware.
The exchange's customers moved all their business in the Bund from the trading floor at LIFFE to the Deutsche TerminBörse, which could, through its screen-based trading platform, offer London-based customers remote access to its market at lower cost.
And, on 24 December 2001, Euronext NV (an amalgamation of the Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon exchanges) acquired LIFFE.
www.sun.com /solutions/documents/success-stories/fn_liffe_bb.xml   (2314 words)

  
 London Stock Exchange may bid for LIFFE - Sep. 28, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LONDON (CNN) - The London Stock Exchange has said it may bid for Europe's third biggest derivatives exchange, the LIFFE futures and options market.
Exchanges around Europe are using alliances and mergers to expand outside their home markets and attempting to offer investors cheaper, more efficient cross-border equity trading, Reuters said.
LIFFE Chairman Brian Williamson said his exchange had evolved into the most technologically advanced in the world, and its trading system was in increasing demand.
money.cnn.com /2001/09/28/europe/lse   (500 words)

  
 I N V E S T O R S D E P O T . C O M - Commodity Futures Trading Education, Commodities Futures Brokers, Online ...
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) is an exchange where people trade financial risk.
Financial risks include market risks - being a person's or an organization's exposure to an adverse change in the market price resulting in higher costs and/or reduced returns.
One of the leading commodity futures exchanges in Asia, the Tokyo Grain Exchange is a non-profit membership organization presently trading corn, Non-GMO soybean, U.S. soybean, soybean meal, azuki (red bean), arabica coffee, robusta coffee and raw sugar futures.
www.investorsdepot.com /nondomestic.htm   (528 words)

  
 RIMS | Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Weather derivatives are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the London International Financial Futures Exchange and the Helsinki Exchanges, with futures and options exchanges in other countries also seriously considering this innovation.
This embryonic OTC market for weather derivatives languished until 2001 when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange introduced exchange-traded weather derivatives (both futures and options) which created the liquidity, price transparency and counterparty certainty that the market needed to be viable.
Later in the same year, the London International Financial Futures Exchange introduced weather futures that now allow Europeans to hedge against their respective weather conditions.
www.rmmag.com /MGTemplate.cfm?Section=MagArchive&template=/Magazine/ArchiveDisplayMagazines.cfm&IssueID=195&AID=2076&Volume=50&ShowArticle=1   (687 words)

  
 Introduction
Conventional ED futures options are frequently priced by applying Black’s model: the futures rate is assumed to have a lognormal distribution and the short term interest rate is assumed to be fixed.
Chen and Scott conclude that futures options with futures-style margining should not be exercised early because their prices should exceed the intrinsic value prior to expiration.
Neural networks were developed that use the futures rate, the strike rate (100 - the strike price), the time to maturity, and the historical volatility of the underlying futures contract as inputs.
campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/jay.white/research/gannliff/gannliff.html   (8584 words)

  
 london stock exchange share prices and data
futures, options and share trading have large potential rewards, but also large potential risk.
The decision to invest or trade and the method selected is a personal decision and involves an inherent level of risk, and you must undertake your own investigations and obtain your own advice regarding the suitability of this product for your circumstances.
Disclosure of Interest: ADEST Trading Pty Limited and its principal David Hunt trade and deal in financial products such as securities, derivatives and margin foreign exchange contracts that may be mentioned herein.
www.adest.com.au /london-stock-exchange-lse-quotes-prices.htm   (1239 words)

  
 CFTC Approves Trading Link Between CBOT and LIFFE
On May 6, 1997, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) issued an Order approving rules of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT) and the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation (BOTCC) that implement a link with the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) and the London Clearing House (LCH).
CBT and LIFFE propose eventually to have CBT's long-term and short-term U.S. Treasury Note futures and options contracts introduced for trading in London and futures and options on LIFFE's long-term U.K. British Gilts and Italian Government Bonds introduced for trading in Chicago.
Other topics addressed in the exchange rules and the Commission Order include: licensing or registration of individuals and firms participating in the link; procedures for the cross-border transmittal of orders; customer disclosure; cross- border surveillance and information sharing arrangements; and exchange liability.
www.cftc.gov /opa/press97/opa4017-97.htm   (475 words)

  
 SSRN-Futures-Style Options on Euro-Deposit Futures: Nihil Sub Sole Novi? by Emilio Barone, Luca Mengoni
As opposed to most futures contracts, the underlying instrument is not represented by a traded asset but by a linear transformation of an interest rate, the Libor.
The options written on Euro-deposit futures that are traded at the London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange (LIFFE) are subject to daily marking to market, as the underlying futures; thus, they are called futures-style options or pure futures options.
Other original contributions involve the determination of the relation between futures rates and forward rates and the derivation of the equivalent portfolio for the hedging of futures-style options on Euro-deposit futures.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=512528   (307 words)

  
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The authors state that: The final settlement price for ED futures is determined by taking an average of the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) on the delivery day and subtracting the rate from 100.
Therefore, the authors derive the value for a ED futures call as  EMBED Equation.2 , (1) where  EMBED Equation.2  and (1a)  EMBED Equation.2 , (1b) and where R(t) is the futures rate which is equal to 100 - f(t), f(t) is the futures price, and K is the strike price.
The inputs are the futures rate F(t), the strike rate (100 — K), the annualized volatility of the underlying futures contract (((), and the time to maturity (().
campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/jay.white/research/gannliff/gannliff.doc   (5629 words)

  
 Chicago Climate Exchange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Under the agreement, a series of futures contracts on ECX CFIs relating to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme will be launched by the end of the year, with cash products to follow in early 2005.
CCX is a self-regulatory exchange that administers the world’s first multi-national and multi-sector marketplace for reducing and trading greenhouse gas emissions.
The International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) is Europe's leading energy futures and options exchange, providing regulated open-outcry and electronic marketplaces where participants use futures and options to manage their price risk exposure in the physical energy markets.
www.chicagoclimatex.com /news/ccxipe_040907.html   (588 words)

  
 Liffe, Nasdaq team up in stock futures alliance - Mar. 26, 2001
LONDON (CNN) - Derivatives exchange Liffe and U.S.-based Nasdaq announced on Monday an alliance to allow U.S. investors to trade stock futures.
The London International Financial Futures Exchange's electronic trading platform Connect will be used to offer investors so called single stock futures for global companies.  
LIFFE started trading its 25 Universal Stock Options on January 29, based on international stocks, including Vodafone Group (VOD), the world's largest mobile phone operator.
money.cnn.com /2001/03/26/europe/liffe   (328 words)

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