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Federal Reserve Board Announces Proposal Requiring Banking Organizations To Include Existing Legal Entity Identifiers On Certain Regulatory Reporting Forms

Date 16/03/2015

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced a proposal that would require banking organizations to include their existing Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) on certain regulatory reporting forms. The LEI is a unique reference code to enable easier identification of a firm's legal entities.

Deutsche Börse: Unscheduled Free Float Adjustment In MDAX

Date 16/03/2015

Deutsche Börse AG has announced an unscheduled adjustment to the free float of DMG MORI SEIKI AG O.N. in MDAX. The company’s free float has changed by more than 10 percentage points due to a takeover by DMG MORI GmbH.

Treasury International Capital Data For January 2015

Date 16/03/2015

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2015.  The next release, which will report on data for February 2015, is scheduled for April 15, 2015.

ISDA SwapsInfo 2014 Year In Review: IRD Average Daily Trade Counts Increase, Notional Volumes Decrease

Date 16/03/2015

Derivatives users are trading interest rate derivatives (IRD) more frequently but in smaller sizes, according to a review of 2014 trading volumes published today by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA).

Nothing To Fear From High Standards - Speech By Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive Of The UK Financial Conduct Authority, Delivered At Bloomberg

Date 16/03/2015

It’s a great pleasure to join everyone here and let me extend my special thanks to Bloomberg for hosting this event.

The FCA, as you know, has this morning published its feedback statement on accountability and related areas.

Annual Changes To The NASDAQ US Broad Dividend Achiever Index

Date 16/03/2015

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the results of the annual evaluation of the NASDAQ US Broad Dividend Achievers™ Index (Nasdaq:DAA), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, March 23, 2015.

Federal Reserve Opens Registration For Its Payment System Improvement Task Forces

Date 16/03/2015

The Federal Reserve on Monday released details for participation in two task forces described in its recently published "Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System" paper. The Faster Payments Task Force and Secure Payments Task Force are open to all interested stakeholders with relevant payment knowledge and experience who can commit the required time and resources to these key initiatives.

Algo-Logic Systems Launches CAPI Enabled Order Book Running On IBM® POWER8™ Server - CAPI Enabled Order Book Processes Market Data And Transfers Top-Of-Book Snapshots To POWER8 Coherent Shared Memory In Under 1.5 Microseconds

Date 16/03/2015

Algo-Logic Systems, a recognized leader in providing hardware-accelerated, deterministic, ultra-low-latency products, systems and solutions for accelerated finance, packet processing and embedded system industries,  announced today availability of their new Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) enabled Full Order Book solution on IBM® POWER8™ systems.  The CAPI enabled Order Book performs all feed processing and book building in logic inside a single Stratix V FPGA on the Nallatech P385 card. The system enables software to directly receive order book snapshots in the coherent shared memory with the least possible latency. The low latency Order Book is designed using the on-chip memory for customer book sizes with many thousands of open orders, up to 24 symbols, and reporting of six L-2 book levels. For use cases where millions of open orders and full market depth need to be tracked, the scalable CAPI enabled Order Book is still implemented with a single FPGA but stores data in off-chip memory.

European Banking Authority Updates Its Risk Dashboard For EU Banking Sector

Date 16/03/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an update to its periodic risk dashboard summarising the main risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector on the basis of the evolution of Key Risk Indicators (KRI) from 55 banks for the third quarter of 2014. This edition of the risk dashboard is the first to have balance sheet information based on the supervisory reporting standards from FINREP, the Financial Reporting framework for financial institutions across the EU.

The MiG Report - Toronto Stock Exchange And TSX Venture Exchange

Date 16/03/2015

Please click here for the February 2015 MiG Report.