Category: Exchanges

April 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Asian Healthcare Specialists Limited to Catalist

Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that it has welcomed Asian Healthcare Specialists Limited to its Catalist under the stock code “1J3”. Asian Healthcare Specialists Limited is a healthcare service provider, specialising in a wide spectrum of general and sub-specialised orthopaedic, trauma and sports services such as knee and hip replacements, sports medicine and surgery, spine surgery,…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX and RiskFirst to launch LDI indices

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, announced today the launch of the new iSTOXX RiskFirst LDI index family. This new offering has been jointly developed with RiskFirst, the UK’s leading provider of risk analytics and reporting solutions to the defined benefit…

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April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Global Markets launches Cboe One-Year Volatility Index

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced the launch of up-to-the-minute market estimates of one-year volatility, the Cboe One-Year Volatility Index (ticker: VIX1Y), calculated by using real-time prices of options in the S&P 500® Index (SPXSM). The introduction of VIX1Y will give traders the ability to track the relative movements of one-month and one-year…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe SEF launches two new NDF currency pairs

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just announced that its swap execution facility, Cboe SEF, has launched trading of U.S. Dollar (USD)/ Russian Ruble (RUB) and USD/Peruvian Sol (PEN) non-deliverable foreign exchange forward currency pairs. Bryan Harkins, Executive Vice President and Co-Head, Markets Division, at Cboe, said: We have seen success in trading non-deliverable…

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April 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq sells its Public Relations Solutions and Digital Media Services businesses to West Corporation

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has today announced the successful completion of the sale of its Public Relations Solutions and Digital Media Services businesses to West Corporation (“West”), a technology-enabled services company, for approximately $335 million. Through a multi-year partnership with West, Nasdaq has confirmed that it will continue to provide eligible Nasdaq-listed clients with seamless access…

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April 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX deploys Nasdaq SMARTS Market Surveillance’s latest machine learning

Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has announced that Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is the first exchange customer in Asia to successfully deploy Nasdaq SMARTS Market Surveillance’s latest machine learning and participant relationship discovery technology across its equity market, enhancing its capabilities to safeguard market integrity, and better protect investors. Nasdaq has worked closely with…

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April 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Rifa Futures Limited as Derivatives Trading Member

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has announced that it welcomes Hong Kong-based Rifa Futures Limited (Rifa Futures) to its derivatives market as a Trading Member. Michael Syn, Head of Derivatives at SGX said: We are pleased to extend our distribution network in Greater China with the addition of Rifa Futures to our derivatives market and look forward…

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April 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

India's TV provider Dish TV lists GDRs on London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has just announced that it today welcomes Dish TV’s Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) to trading on the Professional Securities Market. This follows the completed merger between Dish TV and Videocon d2h, creating a Direct-to Home (DTH) television service provider in India, valued at over $2.2 billion and serving over 29…

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April 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Metropolitan Stock Exchange welcomes listing of 14 IPOs

Metropolitan Stock Exchange (MSE), the youngest national level stock exchange of India has just announced that it welcomes listing of 14 IPOs. The recent additions were ICICI Securities Ltd and Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd. These young companies’ entry in the capital markets gets a red carpet from MSE under the “Permitted to trade category” (PTT),…

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April 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group to sell its 24% stake in fixed income index business

TMX Group (TSX:X) has announced it has completed the sale of its entire 24.2% shareholding in FTSE TMX Global Debt Capital Markets Limited to FTSE International Limited. TMX Group's decision to enter into this transaction was made within the scope of the company's strategy to focus resources on growing core data and analytics businesses. Terms…

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