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HKFE Announces Margin Rates For London Aluminium, London Copper And London Zinc Mini Futures To Be Introduced 1 December 2014

Date 24/11/2014

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced the margin rates for the London Aluminium, London Copper and London Zinc mini futures that it will introduce on Monday,1 December 2014.

Parabellum Markets Chooses FlexTrade For White Label FX And Liquidity Aggregation - Deploys MaxxTrader, A Turnkey ASP Front-End, For Trading Spot Currencies, Forwards, NDFs, Swaps & Precious Metals

Date 24/11/2014

FlexTrade Systems, Inc., a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems,  announced today that Parabellum Markets has deployed MaxxTrader as its full STP and white label FX trading system to aggregate liquidity and process Spot currencies, Forwards, NDFs, Swaps and Precious Metals.

The Bank Of England’s Perspective On CCP Risk Management, Recovery And Resolution Arrangements - Speech Given By David Bailey, Director, Financial Market Infrastructure At The Deutsche Boerse Group And Eurex Exchange Of Ideas Conference, London, Monday 24 November 2014

Date 24/11/2014

Good morning. First of all, let me start by thanking the team at Eurex for inviting me to speak here today.

This conference comes at a very timely point, just over five years on from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh thatplaced such a significant focus on central clearing. In the EU we also have a new Commission settling in and so it seems an appropriate juncture at which to reflect on the progress of the last five years and thechallenges that lie ahead.

Tehran Stock Exchange To Host FEAS General Assembly 2015

Date 24/11/2014

The 20th General Assembly meeting of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchange (FEAS) was held on November 19 - 20, 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia

FIX Trading Community Focuses On High Performance

Date 24/11/2014

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced that they have now combined all initiatives related to the support of FIX for high performance trading and market data into a single working group.

Vienna Stock Exchange And Zagreb Stock Exchange To Cooperate In Data Vending

Date 24/11/2014

The Vienna Stock Exchange and the Zagreb Stock Exchange signed a cooperation agreement for data vending. With this step, the Vienna Stock Exchange has enlarged its data vending network by another emerging market from Central and Eastern Europe. In the course of the coming year, financial data vendors who are customers of the Vienna Stock Exchange will be able to subscribe to the price information and master data of Croatian companies in real time and in the data quality they are accustomed to. Regardless of the local trading system, international customers will receive the price data and master data of companies from 13 markets via one uniform interface. For the local markets, this creates transparency and raises their international recognition. For the Vienna Stock Exchange, the CEE stock market network expands.

Singapore Fixed Income Indices (SFI) Weekly – 24 November 2014

Date 24/11/2014

Key highlights for the week ending 21 November 2014 

• The SFI gained 0.10% to 119.55.
• YTD, the STI currently outperforms the SFI by 1.70%.
• The SFI and major sub-indices ended the week higher.  Gains were largely driven by corporate bonds, with the SFI Corporate Bond Index gaining 0.18%.
• Interest Yield (IY) for corporate bonds is currently at 3.23%. The IY spread between corporate and government bonds has been trending upwards from an all-year low of 43 basis points to 65 basis points currently.
• YTD, corporate bonds (SFI Corporate Bond Index) has gained 4.53% and has outperformed the broader SFI.
• The SFI will be rebalanced next week on Monday, 1 December 2014.

Cairo Amman Bank Weekly Economic Monitor

Date 24/11/2014

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CME Group Announces The Launch Of New Iron Ore Futures Contract

Date 24/11/2014

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of trading and clearing services for the Iron Ore 58% Fe, Low Alumina, CFR China (TSI) Futures contract.  Pending CFTC review, this new cash-settled futures contract will be listed on CME Globex and the NYMEX trading floor, and will be available for clearing on CME ClearPort for trade date 8 December 2014. This contract will be listed with and subject to the rules and regulations of NYMEX.

MNI India Business Sentiment Eases in November - 39% Of Businesses Say Modi Government’s Policies Are Helping

Date 24/11/2014

The MNI India Business Indicator, calculated from the responses of more than 400 BSE listed companies, declined by 1.1% to 68.9 in November from 69.7 in October, with demand falling as the festival season came to a close.