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Borsa Italiana Hosts 15th STAR Conference In London

Date 06/10/2015

• Record number of meetings requested - more than 700
• 46 STAR companies participate in the Conference
• Capitalisation of the STAR segment increased by 35 per cent, to €30.58 billion, since last year’s London event
• For the first time 4 ELITE companies introduce themselves to the STAR Conference financial community

TOCOM Starts Publishing Market Structure Analysis Online

Date 06/10/2015

In September, TOCOM started publishing market structure analysis with more detail on market structures and market data for each individual listed commodity. This analysis includes average price movement, average daily volume and end-of-month open interest, broken out by session, membership category and geographic origin of trades. It provides monthly data for trading from April 2014.

Bucharest Stock Exchange: BVB Trading, The New BVB Mobile App Designed For Investors Always On The Move

Date 06/10/2015

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) launches the BVB Trading App, a dynamic and user friendly online trading application for investors who want to actively manage their portfolios and keep up with the market. The app is available free of charge in Google Play and App Store to clients of brokers offering Arena XT platform, the Direct Market Access Service provided by BVB.

Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) Q3 Volumes Up 36% With Gold Trading Leading The Way

Date 06/10/2015

• Q3 trading in Gold products grew 71% from Q2
• Q3 trading in Indian Rupee portfolio grew 37% from Q2
• Highest Open Interest recorded with 110,145 contracts in Q3, growing 143% from Q2
• Year-to-date volumes grew 19% and year-on-year volumes up 29%

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Introduces New Rules On Whistleblowing

Date 06/10/2015

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), has today published new rules in relation to whistleblowing. These changes follow recommendations in 2013  by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS) that banks put in place mechanisms to allow their employees to raise concerns internally (i.e., to ‘blow the whistle’) and that they appoint a senior person to take responsibility for the effectiveness of these arrangements.

PEGAS Volumes Increase 29 % Year-On-Year

Date 06/10/2015

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, announced that a total volume of 70.6 TWh was traded in September 2015, representing a year-on-year increase of 29 % (September 2014: 54.8 TWh).

Cairo Amman Bank Weekly Amman Stock Exchange Report

Date 06/10/2015

Click here to download Cairo Amman Bank's weekly Amman Stock Exchange report.

European Shareholders Considering Legal Proceedings Against Volkswagen

Date 06/10/2015

On 18 September 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brought to light the fact that Volkswagen used software that reduces emissions when the car is being tested, making the vehicle appear more environmentally-friendly than it actually is. Since the announcement Volkswagen has admitted that an estimated 11 million cars worldwide were involved in the falsified emission reports. Reports have emerged that Volkswagen’s top management had been aware of the deception since before the official ad-hoc announcement.

STOXX And Sustainalytics Publish Esg Report For Germany - Munich RE Identified As Most Sustainable DAX Component

Date 06/10/2015

STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, and Sustainalytics, a leading provider of ESG and corporate governance ratings and research, today presented the research report “Global ESG Leaders (?) – Nachhaltigkeit im DAX” at a media breakfast and awards ceremony in Frankfurt. This report evaluates companies that are part of the German blue-chip index DAX from a sustainability perspective, and ranks them according to their overall sustainability profile as a group on a global level and within Germany. 

In Thomson Reuters Survey, 1 In 4 Companies Say They Won’t Meet BEPS Deadline - European Companies Ahead Of Americas And Asia Pacific In Preparation For BEPS Action Plan

Date 06/10/2015

One-quarter of corporate tax and transfer pricing directors surveyed say their companies will fail to meet the first deadline proposed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan.