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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.

ECB Announces Expanded Asset Purchase Programme

Date 22/01/2015

• ECB expands purchases to include bonds issued by euro area central governments, agencies and European institutions
• Combined monthly asset purchases to amount to €60 billion
• Purchases intended to be carried out until at least September 2016
• Programme designed to fulfil price stability mandate

ECB Stimulus Plan: Introductory Statement To The Press Conference, Mario Draghi, President Of The ECB, Frankfurt Am Main, 22 January 2015

Date 22/01/2015

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. Let me wish you all a Happy New Year. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Lithuania as the nineteenth country to adopt the euro as its currency. Accordingly, Mr Vasiliauskas, the Chairman of the Board of Lietuvos bankas, became a member of the Governing Council on 1 January 2015. The accession of Lithuania to the euro area on 1 January 2015 triggered a system under which NCB governors take turns holding voting rights on the Governing Council. The details on this rotation system are available on the ECB’s website. We will now report on the outcome of today’s meeting of the Governing Council, which was also attended by the Commission Vice-President, Mr Dombrovskis.