Moscow Exchange announced that it has successfully undergone an annual assurance review of compliance of the MOEX indices with the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks. Ernst & Young that had been engaged to complete the review affirmed that index management at Moscow Exchange met 19 IOSCO's principles, and provided reasonable assurance that the processes and…
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Aumann AG (ISIN: DE000A2DAM03) was listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today, Deutsche Börse just announced. The placement volume of the company was around €250 million. The initial listing price was €48.20; the issue price €42.00. Berenberg, Citigroup and Hauck & Aufhäuser led the IPO. Berenberg is also the designated sponsor…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that will introduce 5-year China Ministry of Finance Treasury Bond (MOF T-Bond) Futures on Monday, 10 April 2017. HKEX’s MOF T-Bond Futures will be the offshore markets’ first futures on domestic Chinese government bonds. HKEX is introducing the new futures to meet international investors’ growing demand for…
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Euronext and Vigeo Eiris today launched the CAC 40® Governance Index, a thematic index that rates companies in the Paris market’s benchmark CAC 40 index on their corporate governance performance. The CAC 40® Governance Index takes the constituent stocks of the CAC 40 index and weights the components based on their corporate governance score, using…
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Trading began today in shares of ENBD REIT following its 105 million US dollar initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq Dubai, the region’s international exchange. ENBD REIT is a Sharia’a-compliant Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) managed by Emirates NBD Asset Management and established in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Abdul Wahed Al Fahim, Chairman of…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that its Nordic and Baltic exchanges in Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius have issued a voluntary support program on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure to support their listed companies. Many of the companies listed on the Nasdaq Nordic and Baltic exchanges are already global leaders in…
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Effective June 2017, Deutsche Börse will be offering the new market data feed CEF® ultra+ Xetra Order by Order. The new feed will provide insight into the entire visible Xetra order book with unlimited order book depth. Market Data + Services designed the high-performance data feed for market participants requiring the highest data throughput possible…
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The Warsaw Stock Exchange announced that extends the fee reduction for Market Makers of WIG20 futures until 30 September 2017. Under the promotion the exchange has reduced fees between 27% and 41% with respect to volume threshold reached by eligible entity. Volume thresholds are as follows: from 15 000 up to 35 000 contracts –…
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) announced the target implementation date for the two-day settlement cycle (T+2) on March 2, 2018. SET President Kesara Manchusree commented: The target date to move toward T+2 settlement cycle, from the current T+3, has been extensively consulted with all stakeholders namely The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bank of…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) announced that will add Packs and Bundles functions as trading strategies of Three-month Euroyen futures. While TFX currently offers a fee discount program for synthetic Packs and Bundles transactions executed via block trade facility (off-exchange), it will introduce another fee discount program Packs and Bundles executed on-exchange. Packs Strategy purchase…
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