Category: Exchanges

ASEAN Exchanges
December 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bursa Malaysia introduces new trading features to enhance flexibility in trading strategies

Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or “the Exchange”) has introduced new trading features, providing alternatives for market participants to efficiently execute a greater variety of trading strategies. The new and enhanced trading features are: Good-Till-Cancel – a new order validity that remains in the order book until it expires after 30 calendar days, or…

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December 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monetary Authority of Singapore helps individuals manage unsecured debts

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today a new measure to help borrowers avoid accumulating excessive unsecured debts. The Credit Limit Management Measure will cap the additional unsecured credit that a financial institution (FI) may extend to a borrower whose outstanding unsecured debts exceed six times his monthly income. This measure will take effect…

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December 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Qatar Stock Exchange and Qatar Development Bank sign cooperation MoU

Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) and Qatar Development Bank (QDB) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote collaboration between the two sides. The MoU was signed by Qatar Stock Exchange’s CEO, Rashid bin Ali Al-Mansoori, and Abdulaziz Al-Khalifa, CEO of Qatar Development Bank. The two parties have pledged to work together to collaborate in…

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December 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group completes acquisition of Trayport and sale of NGX to Intercontinental Exchange

TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) announced it has completed the acquisition of London-based Trayport Holdings Limited, and its U.S.-based affiliate, Trayport Inc. (collectively, Trayport), a provider of technology solutions for energy traders, brokers and exchanges from Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) for £550 million / C$931 million in total consideration, including £350 million / C$592 million in…

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Deutsche Börse and RegTek.Solutions launch pre-validation service for regulatory reporting
December 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Major financial institutions to connect to Deutsche Börse’s Regulatory Reporting Hub

Deutsche Börse Group continues to welcome major sell- and buy-side institutions as users of its Regulatory Reporting Hub service. With MiFID II becoming effective on 3 January 2018, the Regulatory Reporting Hub (RRH) will enable sell-side, buy-side and systems integrators' clients to meet their regulatory obligations easily and efficiently. Recently, BaFin (German Federal Financial Supervisory…

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December 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bursa Malaysia issues its revamped Corporate Governance Guide

Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or “the Exchange”) today released the 3rd edition of the Corporate Governance Guide (“CG Guide”) to provide guidance for listed issuers to improve their corporate governance practices and reporting, in line with the new Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance (“MCCG”) issued on 26 April 2017 and the recent enhanced corporate…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

London Stock Exchange welcomes the listing of pioneering Komodo Bond Market

London Stock Exchange has today welcomed the listing of the world’s first Indonesian offshore rupiah-denominated bond – a Komodo bond - issued by an Indonesian State Owned Enterprise to its new International Securities Market. The landmark bond issuance from Jasa Marga, state-owned Indonesian toll road operator, was close to four times over subscribed. The listing…

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Shenzhen Stock Exchange
December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

The first Rail Transportation Special Bonds successfully issued in Shenzhen Stock Exchange

On 11th December, the 2017 Shenzhen (municipal) Rail Transportation Special Bonds (1st tranche) were successfully issued via the Ministry of Finance-SZSE Government Bonds Issuing System, which were the first rail transportation special bonds issued nation-wide following the offering of land reservation and government toll road special bonds since the pilot offering of special bonds. The…

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December 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CESC announces launch of CES SCHK50 Index

China Exchanges Services Company Limited (CESC) today announced its CES Stock Connect Hong Kong Premier 50 Index (CES SCHK50), an index designed to capture the performance of the 50 largest stocks by market capitalisation listed in Hong Kong and eligible for Stock Connect will be launched on Thursday, 4 January 2018. The constituents cover both…

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Moscow Exchange MOEX
December 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX introduces Value Added Analytical Product

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced the start of a trial offering of a new analytical product, Value Added Analytical Product. The new product is intended for domestic and international institutional investors, and can be used as an additional tool for analysis of financial instruments traded on MOEX. The new product consists of analytical reports based…

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