Based on the order book statistics, turnover from all trading activities at Boerse Stuttgart amounted to around EUR 80.6 billion in 2017. As such the turnover across every asset class at Germany’s leading floor-trading exchange was slightly above the previous year’s level. In 2017, Boerse Stuttgart set a new record of EUR 17.8 billion for…
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Europex' announcement about the entry into application of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and its accompanying Regulation (MiFIR) marks a major milestone in European energy commodity trading. The great majority of gas and electricity derivative contracts as well as all EU ETS emission allowances are now classified as financial instruments –…
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)’s main index hit a new record high in the first trading day of 2018 by closing at 1,778.53 points, the highest closing level since its inception in 1975, while gaining 24.82 points or 1.42 percent from end-2017. Combined market capitalization of SET and Market for Alternative Investment (mai) rose…
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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has published and ‘goes live’ with a number of enhancements to its “Prudential – Investment, Insurance Intermediation and Banking” (PRU) Rulebook. This follows a successful public consultation which completed on 7 December 2017. The new enhancements cover the prudential supervision of banks, insurance…
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Germans continue investing heavily in gold / Increase of 57 tonnes over previous year / Europe's largest physically-backed gold security The gold holdings of the Xetra-Gold physically-backed bearer note of 175.04 tonnes at the end of 2017 marks a new all-time high. That figure stood at just 117.59 at the end of 2016. The reserve…
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Belize financial regulator IFSC announced that the company Icon Markets Limited of license number IFSC/60/461 is no longer licensed by the regulator, with effect from January 1, 2018, for trading in financial and commodity-based derivative instruments and other securities or to engage in any other International Financial Services. Icon Markets Limited's domain names are www.hedgestonegroup.com,…
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The Spanish Stock Exchange has released its volumes report for the year 2017. The highlights include: The trading volume in December reached €47.6 billion The ETF trading volume in 2017 totalled €4.4 billion The number of contracts registered in MEFF in 2017 was 44.6 million New issues on MARF in 2017 grew 74.1% to €3.9…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Trustee Credit Savings Bank. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their…
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In December 2017, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) announced that it has achieved a total volume of 234.5 TWh on its power derivatives markets (December 2016: 287.4 TWh). The December volume comprised 160.8 TWh traded at EEX via Trade Registration with subsequent clearing. Clearing and settlement of all exchange transactions was executed by European Commodity…
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Deutsche Börse's cash markets record second highest trading volumes since 2012 / Four Deutsche Börse Venture Network start-ups have been listed on the stock exchange so far The shares of Siemens, Covestro, Rocket Internet and Wirecard were the most traded securities in the German benchmark indices DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX, as announced by Deutsche…
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