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  • Interview With Thomson Reuters - Interview With Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President Of The ECB, Conducted By Paul Ingrassia, Balazs Koranyi And John O'Donnell On 14 September

    Date 16/09/2015

    Is quantitative easing working?

    It is working and effective in many ways. The ultimate metric to assess success is the inflation rate normalization around our medium term target. That is achieved through the improvement of financial conditions in general, by the effect of our policies on expectations, the cost of capital, and rebalancing of portfolios. All of those channels have been working. Since last year, the lending rates of banks have gone down by more than 70 basis points and in several more vulnerable or periphery countries, like in Italy and Spain, more than 100 basis points, whereas our main policy rate has gone down only by 20 basis points. For the first time since 2009, in our survey with SMEs, the number of firms reporting that access to credit has improved was higher than firms saying the opposite. After years of negative growth rates, credit to the private sector is now growing at an annualized rate of 2 percent. So, all of these are good indications that our policy is improving financial conditions.

  • Oslo Børs: Nordea Expanding With New Exchange-Traded Products

    Date 16/09/2015

    The range of exchange-traded products listed on Oslo Børs is expanding. Nordea is now listing 14 new bull and bear products to provide investors with exposure to the OBX Index and other foreign indices.

  • Tokyo Stock Exchange: Council Of Experts Concerning The Follow-Up Of Japan’s Stewardship Code And Japan’s Corporate Governance Code [The First Council]

    Date 16/09/2015

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Financial Services Agency (FSA) have jointly established the Council of Experts Concerning the Follow-up of Japan’s Stewardship Code and Japan’s Corporate Governance Code for the purpose of following up with the prevalence and adoption of Japan’s Stewardship Code and Japan’s Corporate Governance Code as well further improving corporate governance of all listed companies.

  • City Support For Michael Johnson’s Pension ISA (PISA)

    Date 16/09/2015

    A recent investor note[1] from Morgan Stanley looks at the Chancellor’s options following his announcement to consult on the future of pensions tax relief.[2]  Subtitled UK – Leaning towards a PISA, it describes four scenarios following the consultation, and quantifies their impact on the Treasury’s finances. 

  • Pragma Selects smartTrade Technologies For FX Aggregation Software

    Date 16/09/2015

    Pragma Securities, an independent provider of quantitative trading technology, has selected smartTrade Technologies, a global leader of multi-asset end-to-end trading solutions, to provide Pragma with an FX liquidity aggregation platform.