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ECB QE - "The ECB's Money Printing Bazooka Is No Magic Wand" - Comments From David Lamb, Senior Dealer At The Foreign Exchange Specialists FEXCO

Date 22/01/2015

Draghi’s ‘QE Battleship’ Sinks The Euro - Tom Elliott, International Investment Strategist, deVere Group

Date 22/01/2015

Investors will welcome with caution the ECB’s “shock and awe” announcement and will look to buy eurozone equities – particularly exporters - and to a lesser degree the Danish Krona and gold, affirms a leading global analyst with one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.

TheCityUK Calls For Urgent Action To Expand Open Markets And Global Trade In 2015

Date 22/01/2015

Ahead of this week’s Trade Ministers’ meeting at Davos with the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Roberto Azevêdo, Lord Green, Chairman of TheCityUK’s Advisory Council, has sent a letter to all participants calling for urgent action to be agreed to safeguard and expand open markets and global trade as a key catalyst for global economic growth. 

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: Germany's Chancellor Merkel Calls For Urgent Fiscal Reform In Europe

Date 22/01/2015

• Whatever the decision of the European Central Bank, Europe requires urgent fiscal and structural reforms
• The European single market needs to become less regulated and more open
• Germany’s actions are oriented towards keeping Greece in the Eurozone

Thomson Reuters IFR Awards Dinner Raises Over £1.1m For Save The Children

Date 22/01/2015

At the 20th annual Thomson Reuters International Financing Review (IFR) awards gala dinner on Wednesday, 21 January £1,164,240 was pledged to Save the Children, the global charitable organisation that works to save and improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable children. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, President of Save the Children, attended the prestigious event to present Colm Kelleher, president of the Institutional Securities Group at Morgan Stanley, with the coveted “Bank of the Year Award” for 2014. Last night’s total takes the cumulative fundraising figure from the annual awards ceremony to £23,345,087million.

Liquidnet Reimagines The Way The Buyside Trades With Launch Of Liquidnet 5 - First-Of-Its-Kind Platform To Integrate Safe, Actionable And Diverse Liquidity, Point-Of-Trade Analytics, New Execution Capabilities, And Commission Management To Optimize Trades And Fund Performance

Date 22/01/2015

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced the launch of Liquidnet 5 - the first platform to deliver to the buyside one of the most diverse sources of safe and actionable liquidity alongside optimized analytics and advanced execution tools through one customizable interface. By integrating its commission management and payment suite, Liquidnet 5 also eliminates the obstacles and conflicts that affect best execution.

FIF Capacity Statistics For December 2014: Nine New Record 1 Second Peaks: UTP UQDF, UTP UTDF, SIAC CTS, BATS Chi-X Europe CXE PITCH, NASDAQ NLS, NASDAQ TotalView – Aggregated, NASDAQ Level 2, Deutsche Börse CEF Ultra + Xetra, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Frankfurt Certificates And Warrants

Date 22/01/2015

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that SIAC OPRA was down 2% to 7,739,089 mps over the 1 second interval

S&P DJI Commentary Market Attributes: Risk & Volatility Index Dashboard

Date 22/01/2015

• The VIX® closed last night at 18.85; in contrast to the previous year, when each bout of volatility quickly dissipated, the VIX has remained consistently at a level of around 20 in 2015 so far.

December 2014 FIF Market Share Report - Executive Summary

Date 22/01/2015

U.S. Equities Market Share

ECB Announces A Modification To The Interest Rate Applicable To Future Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations

Date 22/01/2015

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided today that the interest rate for the remaining six targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) would be equal to the rate on the Eurosystem’s main refinancing operations (MROs) prevailing at the time when each TLTRO is conducted.