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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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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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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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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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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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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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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At the end of the settlement date of March 15, 2017, short interest in 2,328 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,352,374,802 shares compared with 7,280,848,100 shares in 2,345 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 28, 2017, as announced by Nasdaq. The mid-March short interest represents 4.54 days average daily Nasdaq…
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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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