At an EGM held on 14 September 2017 Moscow Exchange (MOEX) shareholders voted to pay out a total of RUB 5.67 billion (RUB 2.49 per share) as a dividend for the first half of 2017. The payout constitutes 55.04 per cent of the company's H1 2017 net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The…
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The Executive Board (Vorstand) and the Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat) of Deutsche Börse AG announced that have decided to seek an understanding with the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor. The Company will inform the Public Prosecutor that it would accept the fines announced in relation to the accusations of an alleged violation of the prohibition against insider trading…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) has announced plans to expand its suite of product offerings tied to S&P Dow Jones Indices with the planned launch of options on the 10 S&P Select Sector Indices that comprise the S&P 500®, a key benchmark of the U.S. equities market. The new index options will offer investors across…
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First buy-side client to utilise the Lending CCP’s Specific Lender License Eurex Clearing, Europe’s clearing house and part of Deutsche Börse Group, has announced that PGGM, the cooperative Dutch pension fund service provider offering institutional clients asset management, pension fund management, policy advice and management support, is the first buy-side client to become a direct…
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TMX Group (TSX:X) has announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for August 2017. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed three new issuers in August 2017, compared with nine in the previous month and one in August 2016. The new listings included one SPAC, one exchange traded fund and one life sciences…
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Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC), Canada's national central clearing counterparty (CCP) for exchange-traded derivative products, certain over-the-counter (OTC) products and repurchase agreements (repos), announced a proposal to expand its fixed income service to enable certain Canadian buy-side firms to clear cash or repos trades directly through CDCC. CDCC's new direct-clearing model seeks to extend the…
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On 14 September 2017, Moscow Exchange announced that will launch trading in weekly options on the USD/RUB futures contracts. The new instrument will complement MOEX`s monthly and quarterly options offering. The contracts will become available for trading two weeks prior to their expiration. They will expire every Thursday starting on 28 September 2017. A weekly…
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Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker that serves more than 449,000 clients worldwide and operates on more than 120 exchanges, announced today that it plans to join the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) through its Interactive Brokers UK subsidiary as a remote member. Jon Chait, Chief Operating Officer at Interactive…
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After signing MoU with Oslo Stock Exchange just a day ago, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) just announced its market volumes for the month of August and SET index ended at 1,616.16 points, rising 2.5 percent from the end of the previous month - the strongest gain in the region - and 4.7 percent…
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The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE) and Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced that have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote mutual development and foster cooperation between the two companies. The memorandum also paves the way for both sides to work closely together in expanding their ETF markets, facilitating the cross-listing of ETFs on both…
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