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BGC Partners And GFI Group Report Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results - BGC Declares Quarterly Dividend - Conference Call To Discuss Results Scheduled For 10:00 AM ET Today

Date 29/07/2015

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or "the Company"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, and the Company's majority-owned division, GFI Group Inc. (OTC: GFIG) ("GFI Group" or "GFI"), a leading intermediary and provider of trading technologies and support services to the global OTC and listed markets, today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. 

MARF Admits The IM Fortia 1’s Securitisation Fund Commercial Paper Programme - New Finance For 17 Industrial Companies

Date 29/07/2015

The Mercado Alternativo de Renta Fija (MARF) has admitted to trading a securitisation commercial paper programme by IM Fortia 1 - a Securitisation Fund constituted by Intermoney Titulización, Securitisation Funds Manager. The maximum outstanding amount of the programme is €400 million.

Credit Europe Bank (Romania) Withdraws From Brokerage On The Bucharest Stock Exchange

Date 29/07/2015

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) Board of Governors approved Tuesday, July 28, 2015, the request sent by Credit Europe Bank (Romania) related to the withdrawal of its quality of Participant at the BVB trading system and its removal from the Registry of Participants.

Blockchain And Wealth Management Should Be The Next Trends In FinTech According To Investors And Financial Industry Experts At First Startupbootcamp Fintech Demo Day In Singapore - Startupbootcamp FinTech Held First Singapore Demo Day For Top 11 FinTech Startups And Conducted World’s First Live FinTech Survey On The Blockchain - Presented Strong Cohort Of Teams With 15 Partnerships Between Startups And Financial Institutions Announced

Date 29/07/2015

Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading accelerator focusing on financial innovation, hosted its first Demo Day in Singapore on the 29th of July for the top 11 FinTech teams selected out of 300 applications earlier this year.

Thomson Reuters Reports Second-Quarter 2015 Results - Second-Quarter Performance Consistent With Full-Year Expectations

Date 29/07/2015

Thomson Reuters (TSX / NYSE: TRI) today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. The company also re-affirmed its full-year 2015 outlook.

IOSCO Publishes Thematic Review Of Implementation Progress In Regulation Of DMI

Date 29/07/2015

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published its report on the Review of Implementation Progress in Regulation of Derivative Market Intermediaries (DMI). 

TAIFEX’s New USD/RMB FX Futures Get Off To A Flying Start - New Futures Outperform Similar Products In Hong Kong And Singapore -TAIFEX Extends Trading Hours For ETF Futures Linked To Chinese Indices

Date 29/07/2015

Trading in the Taiwan Futures Exchange’s (TAIFEX) new USD/RMB FX futures contracts got off to a strong start during its first week of trading, with an average of 6,252 contracts being traded daily.

LSEG: Johannesburg Stock Exchange Selects MillenniumIT Trading Solution

Date 29/07/2015

• JSE extends use of Millennium Exchange™ trading platform and Millennium Surveillance™ beyond equities into derivatives and fixed income markets
• Technology underpinned by Millennium Advanced Platform™ (MAP)
• JSE becomes first African exchange to use MillenniumIT’s technology for derivatives

Bank Of England: New Approach To Setting Pillar 2 Capital Requirements For The Banking Sector

Date 29/07/2015

In January, the PRA published a consultation paper that contained proposals on its Pillar 2 policy.  The purpose of the proposals was to enhance the transparency and accountability of the PRA’s approach to setting Pillar 2 capital requirements while at the same time ensuring that the approach is applied in a consistent and proportionate way across the population of relevant firms.  By seeking consistency and proportionality across firms, the PRA proposals sought also to facilitate effective competition between firms, in line with the PRA’s secondary objective. 

EEX: Introduction Of The Fuel-Specific Publication Of Data On Planned And Actual Power Productioninsider Information

Date 29/07/2015

The publication of data on the planned and actual production of power is switched to a fuel-specific display on 29 July 2015 for the first time. This replaces the current aggregation of these two publications at the level of the country or of the market area and now permits a PLAN-ACTUAL comparison as per the specific fuel.