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Exegy Unveils Data Entitlement And Usage Reporting Hub

Date 03/08/2015

Exegy Inc., a leading provider of managed services and technology for market data normalization and distribution, has announced today a new product that allows Exegy hardware-accelerated appliances to interoperate with multiple third-party data entitlement and usage reporting tools such as Thomson Reuters DACS.  “Market participants employ our hardware-accelerated appliances and managed services in order to build a market data infrastructure with higher capacity, lower latency, more efficient scalability, and lower total cost.  The Exegy Entitlement Hub now allows these firms to retain their data entitlement and usage reporting regime to minimize migration risk, effort, and cost,” says chief technology officer David Taylor.

Hellenic Capital Market Commission Announcement: Reopening Of Markets

Date 03/08/2015

The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC), during its 725/3.8.2015 Board of Directors' meeting and taking into account the Legislative Act «Urgent restrictions on the transfer of capital and on cash withdrawals» (Official Gazette of the Greek Republic, number 84/18.7.2015) and the Decision of the Minister of Finance "Lifting of the restrictions of the Legislative Act regarding transactions in financial instruments on greek regulated markets" (Official Gazette of the Greek Republic, number 1617/31.7.2015), decided the following:

• The reopening of the ATHEX regulated markets and the Multilateral Trading Facility of "EN.A." (Alternative Market of the Athens Exchange), taking also into account the relevant decision of the Athens Exchange Decision Committee,
• The reopening of the Electronic Secondary Market "HDAT", for government bonds, operated by the Bank of Greece, taking also into account the relevant decision of the Bank of Greece,

Alize Trading Goes Live With Horizon For Prop Algo Trading

Date 03/08/2015

Horizon Software announced today that Paris-based algorithmic prop house Alize Trading has gone live with Horizon Platform to develop its algorithmic trading business.

DGCX Records 15% Growth In Daily Volumes And Highest Monthly Open Interest In July

Date 03/08/2015

• Highest monthly Open Interest recorded with 78,391 contracts , growing 43% from last month average
• Newly launched Quanto products contributed to 13% of the overall monthly volumes 

Thomson Reuters Adds Foreign Exchange Trading Capability Into Eikon For Corporate Treasurers - Thomson Reuters Integrates FXall QuickTrade Into Eikon To Provide Direct Access To Fxall Liquidity And Straight-Through Processing Capabilities

Date 03/08/2015

Thomson Reuters today announced the addition of foreign exchange trading capabilities for corporate treasurers on its flagship financial markets desktop Thomson Reuters Eikon. The Company has integrated FXall QuickTrade, its state-of-the-art request for stream service, to provide corporate treasury customers trading smaller FX volumes with a complete solution that combines news, data and market analysis with direct access to 140 FXall liquidity providers.

Tokyo Financial Exchange: Trading Volume In July 2015

Date 03/08/2015

The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures in July was 110,017 ( △ 40.9% MoM / △ 43.6% YoY) and its average daily volume was 5,001 . 

Athens Stock Exchange To Reopen For First Time In A Month

Date 03/08/2015

The Athens Stock Exchange is set to plunge by as much as 20% today when trading finally resumes after a five-week closure, traders have predicted.

Celoxica Announces Hardware-Accelerated OPRA Ticker Plant - The Celoxica Ticker Plant ‘CTP’ For OPRA Enables A Material Reduction In Data Centre Footprint, While Processing High Message Volumes At Ultra-Low Latency

Date 03/08/2015

Celoxica, the leading provider of accelerated market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for the electronic trading community, today announced the launch of the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for OPRA.

Cairo Amman Bank Weekly Economic Monitor And Amman Stock Exchange Report

Date 03/08/2015

Cairo Amman Bank has issued their Weekly Economic Monitor and Amman Stock Exchange Report.

HSBC Holdings PLC: 2015 Interim Results – Highlights - Provision Of $1.3bn In Respect Of Ongoing FX Rate Investigations And Other Actions

Date 03/08/2015

Financial performance

• Reported profit before tax (‘PBT’) up 10% in the first half of 2015 (‘1H15’) at $13,628mcompared with $12,340m in the same period in 2014 (‘1H14’).
• Adjusted PBT up 2% in 1H15 at $13,002m compared with $12,722m in 1H14, driven by a strong performance in Asia.
• Earnings per share were $0.48 and dividends per ordinary share were $0.20 (in respect of theperiod), compared with $0.50 and $0.20 respectively for the equivalent period in 2014. The second interim dividend was $0.10.
• Adjusted revenue up 4% at $30,772m driven by revenue growth in client-facing GB&M, principally in Equities and Foreign Exchange. Revenue also increased in Principal RBWM and CMB.
• Adjusted operating expenses up 7% at $17,642m reflecting investment in growth, and regulatory programmes and compliance costs.
• Strong capital base with a CRD IV end point CET1 capital ratio of 11.6%, up from 11.1% at 31 December 2014.