Bats Europe readies for MiFID II with successful exchange release LeapRate

July 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats Europe readies for MiFID II with successful exchange release

Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announced the successful rollout of its penultimate software release ahead of MiFID II. All of the major real-time exchange functionality needed for MiFID II compliance was incorporated into this latest software release, which was seamlessly deployed on Friday, 14th…

July 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX announces securities for second phase of its closing auction

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has announced the list of securities for Phase 2 of the Closing Auction Session (CAS) it will roll out in its securities market on Monday, 24 July 2017. CAS Phase 2 (Phase 2) will expand the list of CAS Securities to include constituents of the Hang Seng Composite…

July 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream readies for CSD-regulation

Deutsche Börse subsidiary Clearstream announced that will apply for new licenses to operate under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR). CSDR obligations require Europe’s CSDs to submit their application files to local regulators by 30 September 2017. Authorisations are expected to be granted from mid-May 2018 onwards. This will be a first step to even…

July 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX publishes results of its latest review of listed issuers’ financial reports

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), has today (Friday) published a report summarising key findings from its review of 100 periodic financial reports released by listed issuers (issuers) between February 2016 and April 2017. We encourage issuers to take note of…

July 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Exchange Regulation reaches an agreement with Perfect Holding SA

SIX Exchange Regulation announced that has reached an agreement with Perfect Holding SA in connection with a breach of the accounting standards (IFRS) in the 2016 interim financial statements. The identified deficiency relates to the translation of goodwill arising from the acquisition of a foreign operation. As part of the agreement, the company has committed…

July 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq announces end-of-month open short interest positions in Nasdaq stocks

At the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2017, short interest in 2,327 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,605,955,093 shares compared with 7,678,787,261 shares in 2,328 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 15, 2017. The end-of-June short interest represents 3.91 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume…

July 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEPI Rockcastle lists on Euronext Amsterdam

NEPI Rockcastle (ticker symbol: NRP), one of the largest real estate companies in Continental Europe, began trading today on Euronext Amsterdam. At opening, based on a reference price of € 11.33 per share, the total market capitalisation of NEPI Rockcastle was approximately € 6.1 billion. NEPI Rockcastle is the company created through the merger of…

July 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq releases an indicator of leveraged positions on the Icelandic stock market

Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) just reported that as of today Nasdaq Iceland („the Exchange“), in cooperation with Nasdaq CSD Iceland, will begin publishing an indicator of leverage on the Icelandic stock market. Each month Nasdaq Iceland will release a market notice with information on the extent to which listed shares have been pledged as collateral in the…

July 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

METRO Wholesale & Food Specialist AG listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

METRO Wholesale & Food Specialist AG (ISIN: DE000BFB0019) has been just listed in the Prime Standard on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as of today, Deutsche Börse announced. A total of around 363 million shares were admitted to trading. The initial listing price was €20.00. BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan were acting as the listing…

July 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CDS extends agreement with DTCC’s GLEIF-accredited GMEI utility

Canada's national securities depository, clearing and settlement hub extends commitment to helping clients more effectively manage systemic and counterparty risk The Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group (TSX:X), has today commended The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's (DTCC) subsidiary operating the Global Markets Entity Identifier utility (GMEI utility) on receiving…

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