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JSE Announces Winners Of 13th Annual Spire Awards - Excellence In South Africa’s Fixed Income, Currency And Commodity Derivatives Markets

Date 03/11/2014

The JSE announced the winners of the 13th annual Spire Awards – recognising excellence in South Africa’s fixed income, currency and commodity derivatives markets – at a gala dinner last night. ABSA Capital emerged as the overall winner and was crowned as the Best Fixed Income and Currencies House. Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Bank took second and third place respectively.

Vienna Stock Exchange: Carinthian BKS Bank Capital Increase

Date 03/11/2014

Today, some 3.3 million new shares of BKS Bank start trading in the "standard market auction" of the Vienna Stock Exchange. The exchange-listed Carinthian bank carried out a capital increase that raised the company's equity by around EUR 52 million. 15.5% of the shares are currently in the free float and tradable on the Vienna Stock Exchange. The price for the shares of BKS Bank is determined once daily in a midday auction.

JSE Announces Overall Winners Of The 2014 JSE Investment Challenge

Date 03/11/2014

The high school learners and university students who took the top positions in this year’s JSE Investment Challenge have outperformed the JSE’s Top40 and All Share Indices as well as some of the country’s top fund managers.

Infront Partners With Neonet To Offer Neutral & Transparent - Market Data, Connectivity & Trading

Date 03/11/2014

Infront, provider of the innovative Infront market data, analytics and trading terminal to thousands of professional users, has partnered with Neonet Securities, the independent agency broker and execution specialist, to offer users of its Infront terminals access to Neonet’s trading infrastructure. The partnership expands the choice of execution networks and venues for Infront customers, and creates a neutral and transparent solution for market data, connectivity and trading.

Volante Technologies Releases Whitepaper Outlining A Best Practice Approach To Implementing An Enterprise-Wide Payments Factory - Best Practice Approach Designed To Deliver Processes With Built-In Speed And Flexibility For Any Financial Institution Issuing Payments And Managing Liquidity And Cash Consolidation

Date 03/11/2014

Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of innovative financial data integration, today released a whitepaper titled, ‘Best Practices in Implementing Payments Factories’, focusing on a recommended approach to bringing about the benefits of a payments factory methodology to payments processing.

GMEX Group And Tradition Announce Strategic Partnership - Prices From The Trad-X Platform Will Facilitate The GMEX Exchange USD Interest Rate Swap Futures Launch

Date 03/11/2014

Global Derivatives Indices (GDI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Markets Exchange Group International LLP (GMEX Group), today announced a strategic partnership with Tradition, the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition, to use prices from Trad-X to calculate a new USD version of GDI’s Constant Maturity Index (CMI). This will underpin the GMEX interest rate swap (IRS) Constant Maturity Futures (CMF) contracts.

IISL Index Dashboard For The Month Ended October 2014

Date 03/11/2014

Summary:

• CNX Nifty touched an all-time intra-day high of 8330.75 points on October 31, 2014.
• CNX Nifty closed at 8322.20 points on October 31, 2014, with a hefty increase of 357.40 points (4.49%) compared to the close of 7964.80 points on September 30, 2014.
• Free float market capitalization of CNX Nifty was USD 458 Bn and CNX Nifty Junior was USD 80 Bn as on October 31, 2014.
• CNX Bank index recorded the highest one month gain of 10.74% whereas CNX FMCG index recorded maximum one month decline of 2.43% across all indices.
• CNX Midcap index outperformed broad market indices giving 9.25% returns, CNX Shariah25 index outperformed thematic indices giving 12.19% returns, CNX Alpha index outperformed strategy indices giving 15.52% returns and CNX Auto index outperformed all sectoral indices giving 19.40% returns in preceding 3 months period.
• CNX Smallcap index outperformed broad market indices giving 67.72% returns, CNX CPSE index outperformed thematic indices giving 49.94% returns, CNX Alpha index outperformed strategy indices giving 61.41% returns and CNX Auto index outperformed all sectoral indices giving 59.70% returns in preceding 1 year period.
• CPSE Index continued to post highest dividend yield of 3.30% as on October 31, 2014.

ADX Heads To Far East For Roadshow

Date 02/11/2014

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced today that it will be leading some of the UAE’s chief companies to meet investors in Singapore and Hong Kong on the 3rd and 5th of November respectively.  The Far East roadshow follows successful roadshows in New York and London earlier this year. 

Cairo Amman Bank Weekly Economic Monitor

Date 02/11/2014

Click here to download Cairo Amman Bank's weekly economic monitor.

NASDAQ Dubai Welcomes Listing Of A 100 Million New Zealand Dollar Bond By Emirates NBD

Date 02/11/2014

NASDAQ Dubai, the region's international stock exchange, has welcomed the listing of a 100 million New Zealand dollar (USD 78.1 million) conventional bond by Emirates NBD, one of the region's leading banking groups.