Category: Exchanges

December 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Swiss Exchange internationalizes its product data platform Connexor

SIX Swiss Exchange announced its new strategic partnership with Contineo, a Hong Kong based trading platform for structured products in Asia. SIX will support the standardization of the Asian structured products market by providing its high-performance product life-cycle infrastructure Connexor® in the first half of 2018. This offers synergies and scale opportunities to its shareholders,…

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December 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Signs MOU With Lao Securities Exchange

On 12th December, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lao Securities Exchange (LSX). As per the LOU, both parties shall deepen collaboration on information sharing, personnel exchanges, platform construction, market and product development, etc. General Manager of SZSE Wang Jianjun and CEO of LSX Vanhkham Voravong were present at the…

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SGX announces trading volumes
December 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Clearbridge Health Limited to Catalist

Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that it has welcomed Clearbridge Health Limited to its Catalist under the stock code “1H3”. Clearbridge Health Limited is a healthcare company focused on the delivery of precision medicine in Asia. It aims to empower clinicians and healthcare professionals to make more reliable and accurate diagnoses, provide insights to disease management,…

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London Stock Exchange Group ELITE
December 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LSEG's Elite continues global expansion in China

Elite, London Stock Exchange Group’s international business support and capital raising programme, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shenzhen Securities Information Company (SSIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), to support the launch of Elite in China through the creation of the Elite V-Next Alliance. The signing…

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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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