The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) released its February market report with ADV down 2% MoM. The trading volume of stocks totalled RUB 662 bn in February. The average daily trading volume was RUB 34.9 bln, down 2% MoM. The T+2 sector made up 99.7% of the total secondary market trading volume and the T0 sector accounted for 0.3%.…
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Enormous amounts of data are inserted into and have to be processed by the European Central Bank’s securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities (T2S) day by day. This however does not mean that T2S has already achieved its ultimate goal, Clearstream reported. The technical integration of the European settlement systems can only be a first step,” says…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) successfully extended its product offering on the power derivatives market by launching Swiss Power Base Day and Weekend Futures on Wednesday. On the first day of trading a total of 5,400 MWh was traded in Swiss Base Day Futures. The first transaction in the Day Futures contract with a volume…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) will introduce options on Hang Seng Index constituents AAC Technologies, Geely Automotive and Link REIT on Monday, 10 April 2017 to further strengthen its options market. The Link options will be HKEX's first options on a Real Estate Investment Trust, or REIT. The new options' sizes are in…
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STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today announced that the iSTOXX® MUTB Asia/Pacific Quality Dividend 100 has been licensed to Yuanta Securities Investment Trust Company in Taiwan to be used for a passive index fund. This latest index solution represents the…
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KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG), a leading independent securities firm offering investors a range of services designed to address trading needs across asset classes, product types and time zones, today confirmed that it has received an unsolicited proposal from Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) to acquire all the outstanding shares of KCG's common stock for $18.50-$20.00…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomed the announcement by Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, yesterday about setting up bond market links between Hong Kong and Mainland China. HKEX believes that Bond Connect represents a major breakthrough in the development of the Mainland capital markets…
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Four providers of Leveraged and Inverse Products (L&I Products) listed a total of 16 products today on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), setting a new exchange record for the most L&I Product listings in Asia on a single day. Leveraged Products and…
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The Saudi Stock Exchange “Tadawul” and the Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (JPX) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),on March 14, 2017, that will formalize and develop further cooperation between the two exchanges. The memorandum signed by Eng. Khalid Alhussan, Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Stock Exchange “Tadawul” and Mr. Akira Kiyota, Chief Executive Officer…
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Securities & Investment Company UAE (SICO UAE) has joined Nasdaq Dubai as a Member to trade equities, in order to provide its clients with new investment opportunities on the region’s rapidly expanding international exchange. SICO UAE serves a mainly institutional and high net worth individuals client base and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Securities &…
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