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Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Proposes Greater Flexibility For Dissemination Of Prices And Net Asset Values By Authorized Funds

Date 24/06/2014

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today began a one-month consultation on proposals to amend the Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds.

SIX Swiss Exchange: Registered Shares Of Glarner Kantonalbank (GLKBN) Open At CHF 17.50

Date 24/06/2014

The registered shares of Glarner Kantonalbank (GLKB) traded today for the first time under the Domestic Standard” of SIX Swiss Exchange, opening at CHF 17.50. This corresponds to a transaction size of CHF 56 million and a total market capitalization of CHF 196 million (excluding over-allotment option).

Bucharest Stock Exchange: New Steps Were Taken For Eliminating The Capital Market Barriers

Date 24/06/2014

• Great Barriers Shift working group see the first results of their work
• First significant steps were taken in eliminating capital market barriers 2 and 5
• FSA decided to reduce by 25% the rate applied to the transaction value of financial instruments borne by the buyer
• The Government approves the Emergency Ordinance amending the Fiscal Procedure Code

Borsa Italiana Welcomes Cerved On MTA - Cerved Raised About 490 Million Euro

Date 24/06/2014

Cerved debuts today on MTA, the main market of Borsa Italiana. The company is a leader in providing Italian financial data to the business world.

Orc Adds Connectivity To NASDAQ OMX NLX

Date 24/06/2014

Orc Group, the global leader in derivatives trading technology, today announced it provides connectivity to NASDAQ OMX NLX (NLX), the London based derivatives market for trading a range of both short-term interest rate (STIRs) and long-term interest rate (LTIRs) euro- and sterling-denominated listed derivatives products.

Cairo Amman Bank Custody Service

Date 24/06/2014

Cairo Amman Bank, a Jordanian bank, recently announced the offering of custody services to investors on the Amman Stock Exchange. While other stock markets in the region have experienced big increases in their indices year to date, the Amman Stock Exchange has lagged behind. “This is the nature of our market,” says Ms. Reem Eses, Head of Treasury at Cairo Amman Bank and the person in charge of launching and managing its custody services. “The ASE is highly correlated with the GCC but with a lag time factor.” “We expect major advances in the ASE index by year end and for 2015.”

Tokyo Stock Exchange Has Published The Index Value Of TSE Home Price Index For April

Date 24/06/2014

The index value of TSE Home Price Index (Used Condominium, Composite of Tokyo Metro Area) is 80.57 points. The index value of TSE Home Price Index (Used Condominium, Tokyo) is 86.71 points. The index value of TSE Home Price Index (Used Condominium, Kanagawa) is 77.68points. The index value of TSE Home Price Index (Used Condominium, Chiba) is 65.31 points. The index value of TSE Home Price Index (Used Condominium, Saitama) is 67.71 points.

KVH Expands Its Financial Services Product Suite With Addition Of MarketPrizm Portfolio - Partnering With MarketPrizm To Strengthen KVH’s Market Position In Asia

Date 24/06/2014

KVH Co. Ltd., Asia’s leading information delivery platform headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with MarketPrizm to further reinforce and expand its current position as a leading low latency network and trading infrastructure provider in Asia.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Market Bulletin 23 June, 2014 - Issue 20

Date 24/06/2014

Last week, Shenzhen Component Index tumbled 2.8% to 7195.7 points. SME Index  closed at 4631.6 points after losing 2.4%. ChiNext Index was down 3.5%  to 1334.0 points.  Total  turnover for stocks and funds  on SZSE was US$ 81.5 billion,  or a 3.4% increase  from the week before.

Ultra-low Latency HFT Options Trading System Goes Live

Date 23/06/2014

Argon Design, a design services company specializing in complex digital systems announced today that it has developed an ultra-low latency financial trading system for a proprietary trading house doing latency arbitrage on one of the leading exchanges in the Americas.