Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced it has launched the CBOE S&P 500 Range-Bound Premium Income Index (SPRI), which is designed to serve as a benchmark for investors aiming for consistent income distributions while taking the view that short-term equity returns will be range-bound. The CBOE S&P 500 Range-Bound Premium Income Index measures the performance…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just announced its January volumes and the decline from December continues. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures in January was 125,959 ( - 26.3% MoM / - 56.2% YoY) and its average daily volume was 6,629. The total trading volume of Exchange FX Margin contracts (Click 365) in January…
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International oil and gas production company TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX: TAO and OTCQX: TAOIF) announced that the Company's wholly owned Australian subsidiary, Cypress Petroleum Pty Ltd., has closed the purchase of 100% interest in Petroleum Lease 17 (PL 17) from privately held Southern Cross Petroleum & Exploration Pty Ltd. PL 17 is an oil and…
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Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:X) just welcomed Freshii Inc. to Canada's leading equities exchange. Freshii, the health-casual restaurant business company, will begin trading on TSX this morning under the symbol TSX:FRII. The unprecedented success of Freshii here in Canada and around the world is a testament to the power of innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit. We…
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In an effort to bolster further cooperation with all governmental institutions in UAE, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) Chief Executive, Rashed Al Blooshi recently received H.E. Badr S. Al-Olama, Chief Executive Officer of STRATA, and a delegation from Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) headed by Mr. Saeed Mohammed Al Mansoori, Executive Director of…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) just informed the Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs) that the Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments (MiFID II) and the Regulation 600/2014 on markets in financial instruments (MiFIR) which will apply on the 3rd of January 2018, bring a number of changes in the scope of the financial…
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The innovative German index provider Solactive announced the release of the Solactive Swiss Family Owned Companies Index, an index tracking the price movements of publicly traded family-owned companies that are domiciled and listed in Switzerland. The index is used as the basis for UBS’s tracker certificate (ISIN: CH0350101744). Family-owned companies are defined in the index…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has put for public consultation future guidelines on the transfer of data between trade repositories (TRs) authorised in the European Union under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). There are currently six authorised TRs within the European Union which record the records of derivate transactions and which are…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) announced that Alison Simpson has been named Senior Vice President, Marketing and Branding, effective February 13, 2017. In this newly-created role, Ms. Simpson will be responsible for building TMX's marketing strategy with a focus on enhancing the company's presence and impact across the full spectrum of available channels, including digital, mobile…
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The Federal Court of Australia has dismissed an appeal brought by former Victorian finance broker Meenakshi Devi Callychurn, against her banning from engaging in credit activities and the cancellation of the Australian credit licence of her company Unique Mortgage Services Pty Ltd (UMS). ASIC banned Ms Callychurn in March 2015 from engaging in credit activities…
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