Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today welcomed new issuer Barclays to the Cboe ETF Marketplace, with the launch of two exchange-traded notes (ETNs), together the “New ETNs”. The iPath® Series B S&P 500® VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (Cboe: VXXB) is designed to provide investors with exposure to the performance of the S&P 500® VIX…
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority issued a report today entitled Risks of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The complete text of it can be seen below: Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) is committed to providing a regulatory environment for Bermuda’s financial services industry that both protects stakeholders and supports innovation. Says BMA CEO Jeremy Cox: Today’s fast-paced global…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of December 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS in December was USD1.562 trillion, down 6.9 percent from USD1.677 trillion in November 2017. December 2016 November 2017 December 2017 Average…
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo announced today that Maggie Sklar will serve as his Senior Counsel. Prior to joining Chairman Giancarlo’s office, Sklar served as an Associate Director in the Office of International Affairs (OIA), where she oversaw the CFTC’s engagement with the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions…
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ZED Network has announced its intention to launch an integrated global payments platform featuring proprietary blockchain technology to address imbalances and inequities in the Money Transfer Operator (MTO) market. Executed over Stellar to a network of sending and receiving MTOs in multiple worldwide corridors, the ZED platform offers a single point of integration for MTOs…
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, has today published a set of best practice guidelines for market infrastructures designed to engender a staff culture of cyber security compliance. The paper takes a behavioural approach to the issue, as evidence shows that moving away…
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) today confirmed that it is authorsied to issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) to Bermuda domiciled companies and has been doing so for several months. In making the announcement BSX Operations Manager Mr. Neville Caines noted: The BSX through its relationship with CUSIP Global Services, is now issuing LEIs to Bermuda…
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Visible Alpha today announced that it has secured an additional $38 million of equity financing. The company will use this investment to fuel its growth and maintain its position among firms driving efficiency, transparency and alpha generation in the institutional research process and helping solve for the research valuation and budgeting requirements of MiFID II.…
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AxiomSL, the regtech provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Ward as Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Business and Partnership Strategy. Ward will play a key role expanding the company’s footprint across EMEA and developing strategic global relationships. Prior to joining AxiomSL, Ward was Managing…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) just announced that, no certification examinations (advanced or basic) will be carried out during February and March 2018, due to the up-date of the examination material, in the light of the new Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2017. The current examination material will be…
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