The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just announced that has decided to extend the current Discount Program in Three-month Euroyen Futures (Euroyen) until the end of September 2017. 1. Objects Outright delivery months after Quarters 7. Strip, Butterfly and Condor Trades executed through Block Trade functions. 2. Period From April 1, 2017 to September 30, 2017.…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomed the Government's appointment of Stephen Yiu Kin-wah and the reappointment of Anita Fung Yuen-mei, Rafael Gil-Tienda and Margaret Leung Ko May-yee to its Board of Directors. The terms of Mr Yiu, Ms Fung, Mr Gil-Tienda and Mrs Leung will begin at the conclusion of HKEX's Annual General…
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In February, Moscow Exchange’s Indices reflected the negative trend by the MICEX Index on the Russian stock market. The MICEX Index was down 8.19% to 2,035.77 (from 2,217.39 on 31 January), while the dollar-denominated RTS Index fell 5.56% to 1,099.46 (from 1,164.15). The dollar depreciated 3.70% against the rouble. Volatility increased, with the Russian Volatility…
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TMX Group (TSX:X) announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for February 2017. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed 12 new issuers in February 2017, compared with 17 in the previous month and seven in February 2016. The new listings included nine exchange traded funds, one mining company, one financial services company…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced its plans to be dually-listed on the Bats BZX Exchange, Inc. and on NASDAQ Global Select Market. Shares of CBOE Holdings common stock have been listed on NASDAQ since the company's initial public offering in 2010. In addition, the company will also be listed on the BZX Exchange…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that will mandate all Mainboard IPO companies to allocate to retail investors, at least 5%, or S$50 million, whichever is lower, of their offer size. The introduction of the minimum IPO allocation is aimed at facilitating greater retail participation in Singapore’s equities market. The new rules on the minimum allocation are…
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Börse Düsseldorf, the German exchange, has gone live with Scila Surveillance for real time market surveillance covering equities, funds and equity linked products (ETFs, ETNs). Scila Surveillance is a powerful and highly flexible solution developed and delivered by the independent trade surveillance technology solution provider Scila in Stockholm. Börse Düsseldorf will use our market surveillance…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) is consulting the public on proposed adjustments to the equities market structure aimed at addressing market conditions, while balancing the diverse objectives and interests of different segments of participants in the market ecosystem. The three proposed adjustments are: Increasing the minimum bid size for stocks and relevant securities trading in the S$1.00…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) today announced February 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved a new open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,410 contracts on February 17, 2017. To see the…
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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 introduced the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices. This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change scoring methodology which evaluates companies based on their progress in the transition…
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