Category: Financial Services

ESMA bond liquidity data
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA updates MIFID II/MIFIR investor protection Q&As

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has added 10 new Q&As to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR). The MiFID II Q&A provide clarifications on the following topics: Best execution; Suitability; Post sale reporting; Inducements…

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Eurex volumes
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eurex March report sees strong volumes with 11% rise YoY in contracts traded

Rate hike expectations support trading volumes With the release of March's turnover on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets also comes the first quarter report of derivatives exchange Eurex. With further US interest rate hikes on the horizon and a looming end to Quantitative Easing, demand for market instruments to hedge risk has been growing strongly in the first quarter. Hedging…

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April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against The Loan Expert clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm The Loan Expert / www.theloan.expert. 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…

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Deutsche Börse
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse Cash Market sees significant rise in March

Turnover on Deutsche Börse's cash markets totalled €135.7 billion in March, a significant increase on the €120.9 billion seen in the same month of 2016. This increase was largely driven by the daily auctions in Xetra trading, which are held at opening, midday and end of trading. Order book turnover in auctions provided 52% of…

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MOEX launches trading in sunflower seed futures
April 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX announces Index Committee decisions

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced that on 24 March 2017, the Index Committee of Moscow Exchange decided to recommend that the Exchange set the following free float coefficients: Ticker Issuer Free float DSKY Detsky mir, ordinary shares 34% EPLN Europlan, ordinary shares 35% FTRE FG FUTURE, ordinary shares 20% The Committee also proposed to consider…

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April 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

European Trade Repository REGIS-TR receives formal recognition as foreign trade repository in Switzerland

The European Trade Repository REGIS-TR has been formally recognized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA on 1 April 2017, Deutsche Börse announced. REGIS-TR is now officially a foreign trade repository in Switzerland, enabling market participants to meet their transaction reporting obligations under the Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA). Under the terms of the…

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fma warns against unregulated company
April 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Italy regulator CONSOB warns against Investing Group Trading

The National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa – CONSOB) just reported that the company Investing Group Trading is not authorised to offer out-of-the-office, or promote or place through remote communication techniques in Italy, investment services or business in any way, and, therefore, neither through the…

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