The European Energy Exchange (EEX), part of Deutsche Börse Group, and the owners of US-based Nodal Exchange Holdings, LLC announced that have successfully closed the transaction under which EEX has acquired 100% of the equity in Nodal Exchange. All remaining regulatory conditions to closing were satisfied recently, especially the US merger control process was passed…
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The Board of the Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySEC) informed the public and especially the covered clients of CommexFX Ltd of the following: The Company’s CIF authorisation has been withdrawn as of July 2016. The Company, has not until today, settled its obligations arising from the investment and ancillary services that provided to its client,…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX: X) today announced April 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. All TMX Equities Marketplaces volume was down 26% from March 2017. Toronto Stock Exchange daily average volume was 334.7 million down 14.9% YoY. TSX Venture…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for April 2017. The April 2017 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €8,458 million up 21.7% compared to April 2016 and up 14.4% from the previous month. April was the fourth consecutive month of volume increase and the…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Cory Williams of Gilbert, Arizona, and his company, Williams Advisory Group (WAG) (collectively, Defendants), charging them with defrauding 40 investors out of at least $13 million in connection…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced that in April 2017 total trading volumes across the exchange's markets amounted to RUB 70.9 trln. Turnover grew: on the Money Market up 20.2% YoY, Equity and Bond Market up 17.9% and FX Market up 9.5%. More detailed information on MOEX' total trading volumes can be seen below: Equity and…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company today welcomed VelocityShares® branded ETNs to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The VelocityShares 1x Long VSTOXX Futures ETN (Bats: EVIX) links Long Securities to the VSTOXX Short-Term Futures Investable Index (the "Long Investable Index"). The Long Investable Index replicates the performance of a long position in [constant-maturity one-month…
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On 2 May 2017 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) upheld ASIC's decision that Mr Michael Roger O’Sullivan of Sydney be disqualified from managing corporations for five years and from providing financial services for seven years. The AAT qualified the five-year disqualification decision by permitting Mr O'Sullivan to remain as a director of three private companies,…
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Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the global network of exchanges and clearing houses and provider of global data and listing services, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2017. For the quarter ended March 31, 2017: consolidated net income attributable to ICE was $502 million on $1.2 billion of consolidated revenues less transaction-based expenses.…
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