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Direct Edge Trading Notice #14-21: BATS / Direct Edge Integration Test And Member Certification Schedule

Date 11/06/2014

Weekend Test Opportunities
Please be advised that BATS has reserved the following dates for Member weekend test opportunities of the new EDGA and EDGX trading platforms located in the Equinix NY5 data center in Secaucus, NJ.

BME: The ETFs Linked To The IBEX 35® Manage Assets Representing €2 Billion

Date 11/06/2014

• The assets managed by these funds increase four-fold in 2014
• For the first time the IBEX TRADING DAY takes place in Barcelona ​​

New Participant At SIX Swiss Exchange - Commencement Of Trading By Deep Blue Capital On The Highly Liquid And Efficient Marketplace For Swiss And International Securities

Date 11/06/2014

Today, SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange Ltd welcome its new participant Deep Blue Capital. As of the commencement of trading, the Amsterdam-based firm with a focus on propriety trading is already active as a Market Maker in the ETF segmentof SIX Swiss Exchange.

C24 Partners With Azul To Offer Next-Gen In-Memory FpML Storage Solution - Solution Provides 5x Cost Reduction And 3x Performance Improvement For OTC Derivatives Data Storage

Date 11/06/2014

Azul Systems (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, and C24 Technologies (C24), a world leader in financial services messaging and integration solutions, today announced the availability of an in-memory Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) storage solution which combines C24 Integration Objects (C24-iO) SDO message compaction Technology with Azul’s pauseless Zing runtime for Java, enabling financial services institutions to dramatically reduce hardware requirements for storing OTC derivative data.

StarCompliance Appoints Sunil Sehdev To Chief Technology Officer - Executive Level Addition Strengthens Enterprise Compliance Software Development At The Company

Date 11/06/2014

StarCompliance, a leading provider of enterprise compliance and regulatory software solutions, announced today that Sunil Sehdev has been appointed Chief Technology Officer.  A veteran in software development for the financial services industry with a strong expertise in compliance solutions, Sunil will be based in the company's United Kingdom office and will report to Marc Epstein, the Chief Executive Officer of StarCompliance.

Bank Of England Accredits MWR InfoSecurity In New Cyber Security Testing Scheme

Date 11/06/2014

Leading global information security firm MWR InfoSecurity has been announced as one of the seven accredited providers for the Bank of England’s new testing framework, CBEST.

FIX Becomes The Pre-Eminent Standard For OTC Derivatives Trading On SEFs

Date 11/06/2014

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of the global electronic trading community, announces the adoption of the FIX Protocol by an overwhelming majority of Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs), including BGC Derivative Markets, L.P., Bloomberg, trueEX, GFI Group, ICE Swap Trade, MarketAxess, Tradeweb (TW and DW), Tradition Trad-X and Tullett Prebon.

Next Steps For European Securitisation Markets - Speech By Yves Mersch, Member Of The Executive Board Of The ECB, At The IMN Global ABS Conference, Barcelona,11 June 2014

Date 11/06/2014

Ladies and gentlemen,

It is a pleasure to be here with you at the 2014 Global ABS Conference.

Over the last year ABS have become a major focus of discussion within European policymaking circles. There is a growing consensus that an instrument once seen as part of the problem could in fact be part of the solution. I am therefore happy to see that the conference agenda contains many sessions touching on the key issues we are thinking about, such as regulation and economic growth. I am sure there will be several useful insights we can draw on.

Thai Bourse Market Report For May

Date 11/06/2014

• Daily average trading volume up 32.2 pct month-on-month  to USD 1.29 billion
• Market cap at USD 396 billion, up 10.23 pct from end-2013  
• Derivatives trading up 1.5 times month-on-month at 137,261 contracts per day

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Statistics On Dates Of Annual General Shareholders Meetings For Companies Which Settle Accounts In March 2014

Date 11/06/2014

TSE has compiled the statistics on dates of Annual General Shareholders Meetings for companies which settle accounts in March 2014. A summary of the statistics is as below.