SGX Index Edge to use S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Alpha Factor Library to develop quantitative LeapRate

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX Index Edge to use S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Alpha Factor Library to develop quantitative

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and S&P Global Market Intelligence have announced a commercial relationship that will enable SGX Index Edge to use S&P Global Markets Intelligence’s Alpha Factor Library to develop new quantitative index models and smart beta indices across Asia-Pacific. As part of this agreement, SGX Index Edge has immediate access to the comprehensive research…

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Barclays signs contracts with six fintech startups

Barclays Bank (NYSE:BCS) has signed contracts with six accelerator graduates participating in its accelerator programme in New York. The deeper engagement with Barclays comes as the ten graduates from the bank's second New York class present at a demo day to an audience of 500 banking executives and corporate partners. The 10 teams to emerge…

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Reuters Video Archive to be made available through Reuters Media Express

Reuters has announced that Reuters Video Archive is now available direct from Reuters through Reuters Media Express, the premier platform that delivers thousands of multimedia stories per day to over 3,000 publishers in broadcast, digital and print. Reuters Video Archive is one of the most comprehensive collections of international news stories that have shaped the world we…

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deputy Director and Deputy Chief Economist of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis to leave SEC after ten years of service

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Jennifer Marietta-Westberg, Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, is planning to leave the agency after 10 years of public service. Dr. Marietta-Westberg joined the SEC as a Visiting Scholar in 2006. She became an Assistant Director in…

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes J.P. Morgan Asset Management as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace

Financial exchanges operator Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS) has welcomed J.P. Morgan Asset Management as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace with the launch of a new fund. J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched its first fixed income ETF today as the JPMorgan Disciplined High Yield ETF (Bats: JPHY) began trading yesterday on the Bats ETF…

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans alternative investment spruiker for four years

ASIC has banned Mr Geoffrey Woodcock of Auckland, New Zealand, from providing financial services for a period of four years. Between November 2011 and October 2013, Mr Woodcock was the founder and manager of Capital Alternatives Pty Ltd and a director of Velvet Assets Pty Ltd. Both of those companies promoted alternative investments in Australia.…

September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Playtech provides first native app to bet365, speed 3x HTML5

bet365 has become the first operator to go live with Playtech’s new native mobile casino application, offering instant gameplay and improved speed and performance across all iOS and Android devices. bet365 players can download and play games in seconds, with loading speeds up to three times faster than HTML5 equivalents, giving them instant access to…

September 15, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Options trading now available at AMP Futures using Rithmic

AMP Futures, a Chicago-based Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) today announced that the Rithmic R | Trader platform now includes options trading. Rithmic is a developer of high performance multi-asset trade execution software. This Initial Release includes Options Trading on all CME exchanges: CME CBOT NYMEX COMEX 2nd phase release will enable live options trading using CQG 3rd…

September 15, 2016 BY Mike Fox

India to start mock trading for international exchange starting in October

Indian financial exchange BSE today said it has decided to begin mock trading sessions for its international exchange in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) from October 3rd. BSE had signed a pact with GIFT SEZ Ltd in January last year to set up BSE International Exchange and BSE International Clearing Corporation at the GIFT city…

September 15, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CBOE to launch options on FTSE Emerging Index

CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE) today announced that it plans to launch options on the FTSE Emerging Index on September 26, 2016. The FTSE Emerging Index is a market-capitalization weighted index representing the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced and secondary emerging markets. The FTSE Emerging Index (Ticker: FTEM) includes approximately 972 securities from 22…