Euronext Brussels has today welcomed the fashion group FNG (ticker symbol: FNG) to celebrate their listing on Euronext Brussels, as well as their capital increase. FNG is a Benelux fashion group designing and distributing clothing and shoes for women, children and men through its own concept-stores in Belgium and the Netherlands and through a network…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has announced that Optiq, its new trading platform, is now live on cash markets, including equities, structured products, ETFs and fixed income. Optiq gives investors access to trading across all asset classes available on Euronext’s pan-European exchanges. Optiq has demonstrated an average performance latency of as low as…
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The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has just announced that it has launched its first energy futures contract – Brent Crude Oil Futures. Based on the oil benchmark, ICE Brent Index, TAIFEX’s new product is cash settled, Taiwan Dollars (TWD) denominated, and features small-sized contracts, which lower the barrier of entry for investors seeking to mitigate…
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Japan Exchange Group, Inc (JPX) and London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) have announced that they have agreed to identify and collaborate on financial market infrastructure initiatives designed to promote global sustainable investment and on product marketing initiatives. JPX and LSEG have begun identifying areas for mutual collaboration and innovation across the full spectrum of…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced that it has welcomed 52 new listings to its Nordic markets during the first half (1H) of 2018, raising 2.4 billion EUR in capital. Twenty-three of the new listings were on the Main Market, while 29 occurred on Nasdaq’s European growth market, Nasdaq First North. We have experienced a very…
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Switzerland’s stock exchange – owned and managed by SIX – has just announced that it is building a fully integrated trading, settlement and custody infrastructure for digital assets. SIX is regulated as an operator of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) by Swiss Authorities, FINMA and the Swiss National Bank, and intends that the planned ‘digital asset…
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On Wednesday, 27th June, the constitutive meeting of the new EEX Exchange Council was held in Leipzig. At the meeting, the members of the newly elected Exchange Council re-appointed Dr Michael Redanz, Managing Director of EWE Trading GmbH, as their Chairman for a further term. The members also elected Dr Bernhard Walter, Head of Market…
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Solactive has just informed the public of the launch of the Climate and Energy Transition Index, an index tracking the performance of companies that show the best commitment to energy transition in their sectors while exhibiting low volatility and high dividend yield characteristics. The index is based on a methodology developed by Natixis in collaboration…
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Blackwell Global Hong Kong has just announced its admittance as a member of the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading (SGX-DT). Global clients will gain direct access to the Asian derivatives market through the SGX Asian Gateway. As the subsidiary of Blackwell Global Hong Kong, Blackwell Global Futures’ membership of the SGX-DT allows the brokerage to offer…
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Deutsche Börse has announced that the gold holdings of Xetra-Gold (ISIN: DE000A0S9GB0) amounted to 181.34 tonnes at the end of the first half. At the beginning of the year, they amounted to 175.04 tonnes. The holdings always increase when investors buy Xetra-Gold units via the stock exchange. Exactly one gram of gold is deposited in…
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