Category: Institutional

November 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Janus Henderson expands BNP Paribas strategic partnership with addition of U.S. services

Janus Henderson Investors (NYSE:JHG) today announced that BNP Paribas Securities Services, a global custodian with over $10 trillion in assets under custody as of September 30, 2017, will assume responsibility for the majority of Janus Henderson's back office (including fund administration and fund accounting), middle office and custody functions in the U.S. As part of…

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November 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Cboe Vest Fund targets distributions of 3.5% above the S&P 500 with Proportional Price Returns

The newest mutual fund from Cboe Vest Financial LLC, a majority owned subsidiary of Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE), seeks to track the recently launched Cboe S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income Index (SPAI), an index designed to track the hypothetical performance of a partial buy-write strategy applied to stocks contained in the widely utilized…

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November 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Regulatory Reporting to become an SFTR trade repository

NEX Regulatory Reporting, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which provides regulatory reporting services across global regulatory regimes, announced today its intention to apply to become a trade repository for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) and launch a dedicated reporting solution, pending the issuance of the final technical standards from ESMA. NEX Regulatory Reporting will…

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November 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Liquidnet study finds dark trading adjusting ahead of MiFID II

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today published Shape Shifting: Accessing the Dark Post MiFID II research on how buy-side traders plan to trade in the dark once broker dark pools are no longer admissible. Today, 65% of respondents see buy-side crossing networks as their most effective venue for accessing the dark versus 20% who…

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November 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Capital Market Regulators launch ASEAN Green Bond Standards to drive sustainable investments

The ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) today held its inaugural ASEAN Capital Market Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Themed “Strengthening ASEAN Capital Market Connectivity”, the conference saw over 300 participants from the region, representing issuers, investors, intermediaries, regulators and experts from institutions like the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the International Capital…

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CLS Group trading volumes
November 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group average daily traded volume down 8% MoM in October

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of October 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.616 trillion down 7.6 percent from USD1.749 trillion in September 2017.   October 2016 September 2017 October 2017 Average daily…

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November 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Flow Traders enters FX Market with MarketFactory

Flow Traders, a global technology-enabled liquidity provider specializing in exchange traded products (ETPs), and MarketFactory, a FX technology platform, announced today a partnership that will enable investors to trade FX directly with Flow Traders on FX trading venues across the globe. Flow Traders has a long history of trading FX as part of its hedging…

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avelacom
November 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Avelacom expands connectivity services to access Australia’s capital markets

Avelacom, a global provider of connectivity and IT infrastructure solutions, announced that it has launched a new point of presence (PoP) in the Australian Security Exchange’s (ASX) Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC), Australia’s only data centre dedicated to the financial markets community. The initiative is designed to meet the rising needs of proprietary trading desks and…

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Cboe volumes
November 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe reports Q3 2017, Net Revenue up 10% YoY

Just two days after releasing its October volumes report, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) has today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017. Q3 2017 highlights include: Revenue Less Cost of Revenue of $269.7 Million, up 98 Percent, Reflects the Bats Acquisition Net Revenue up 10 Percent Compared to 3Q16 Adjusted Combined…

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