Category: Financial Services

March 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Scila for real time market surveillance goes live at Börse Düsseldorf

Börse Düsseldorf, the German exchange, has gone live with Scila Surveillance for real time market surveillance covering equities, funds and equity linked products (ETFs, ETNs). Scila Surveillance is a powerful and highly flexible solution developed and delivered by the independent trade surveillance technology solution provider Scila in Stockholm. Börse Düsseldorf will use our market surveillance…

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SGX announces trading volumes
March 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX consults on proposed equities market structure adjustments

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is consulting the public on proposed adjustments to the equities market structure aimed at addressing market conditions, while balancing the diverse objectives and interests of different segments of participants in the market ecosystem. The three proposed adjustments are: Increasing the minimum bid size for stocks and relevant securities trading in the S$1.00…

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March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

OSC announces new Commissioner appointments

Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) Chair and CEO Maureen Jensen announced today the following appointments to the OSC. The Commissioners will each serve a two-year term effective February 2, 2017. Robert P. Hutchison spent more than 40 years with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, where he practiced business law, focusing on financial services. In addition to advising…

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March 07, 2017 BY admin

LSE’s TRADEcho service approved as a Trade Data Monitor for SIX Swiss Exchange

SIX Swiss Exchange announced today approval of the London Stock Exchange’s TRADEcho service as a Trade Data Monitor (TDM) for the SIX Swiss Exchange. This agreement enables foreign participants (Remote Members) of the SIX Swiss Exchange to meet their reporting obligations for trades in Swiss securities admitted for trading on a Swiss regulated market via the…

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March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group releases February trading statistics, a new record for Montréal Exchange

TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) today announced February 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved a new open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,410 contracts on February 17, 2017. To see the…

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IOSCO issues statement on liquidity risk management recommendations for investment funds
March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

IOSCO finds little evidence of declining secondary corporate bond market liquidity

A report published today by the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has found no substantial evidence showing that liquidity in the secondary corporate bond markets between 2004 and 2015 has deteriorated markedly from historic norms for non-crisis periods. The report, titled Examination of Liquidity of the Secondary Corporate Bond Markets, presents…

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March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Loan and Go firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Loan and Go. Loan and Go is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI
March 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX licenses next generation of low carbon indices to Scandinavian asset owner

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices. This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change scoring methodology which evaluates companies based on their progress in the transition…

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