Category: Exchanges

Eurex volumes
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eurex March report sees strong volumes with 11% rise YoY in contracts traded

Rate hike expectations support trading volumes With the release of March's turnover on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets also comes the first quarter report of derivatives exchange Eurex. With further US interest rate hikes on the horizon and a looming end to Quantitative Easing, demand for market instruments to hedge risk has been growing strongly in the first quarter. Hedging…

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Deutsche Börse
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse Cash Market sees significant rise in March

Turnover on Deutsche Börse's cash markets totalled €135.7 billion in March, a significant increase on the €120.9 billion seen in the same month of 2016. This increase was largely driven by the daily auctions in Xetra trading, which are held at opening, midday and end of trading. Order book turnover in auctions provided 52% of…

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MOEX launches trading in sunflower seed futures
April 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX announces Index Committee decisions

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced that on 24 March 2017, the Index Committee of Moscow Exchange decided to recommend that the Exchange set the following free float coefficients: Ticker Issuer Free float DSKY Detsky mir, ordinary shares 34% EPLN Europlan, ordinary shares 35% FTRE FG FUTURE, ordinary shares 20% The Committee also proposed to consider…

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April 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

European Trade Repository REGIS-TR receives formal recognition as foreign trade repository in Switzerland

The European Trade Repository REGIS-TR has been formally recognized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA on 1 April 2017, Deutsche Börse announced. REGIS-TR is now officially a foreign trade repository in Switzerland, enabling market participants to meet their transaction reporting obligations under the Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA). Under the terms of the…

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April 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TFX Click 365 March volumes change direction, up 12.3% MoM

Like GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), the Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just announced its March volumes and, considering the low start of the year, numbers are finally going up for them. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 266,249 (+175.5% MoM / +4.7% YoY) and…

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March 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX launches director training webcasts

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), today launched the first of its director training webcasts entitled "Duties of directors and the role and functions of board committees". The first webcast, which followed from the Exchange's news release dated 9 December 2016 that said…

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SGX announces trading volumes
March 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX files complaint against CEO of China Fibretech

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has filed complaints with authorities in China against Wu Xinhua, Executive Chairman and CEO of SGX-listed China Fibretech Ltd. The complaint was made against Wu in relation to several alleged offences under the Chinese Penal Code. The complaint was filed through lawyers appointed in both Singapore and China who have been advising…

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March 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX and DCE announce new areas of cooperation in MOU

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) and Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), aimed at expanding the cooperation between the two exchanges in terms of information sharing, high-level visits, training and exchange programmes for staff, and other areas of business cooperation. Li Zhengqiang, Chairman of DCE, said during the…

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