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Singapore Fixed Income Indices (SFI) Weekly – 3 November 2014

Date 03/11/2014

Key highlights for the week ending 31 October 2014

• The SFI lost 0.23% to 119.40.
• YTD, the SFI currently outperforms the STI by 0.41%.
• The SFI posted its first weekly loss after five consecutive weeks of gains. Government bonds (SFI Government Bond Index) largely led the decline, losing 0.29%
• Despite last week’s decline, monthly performances of both the SFI and SFI Government Bond Index in October were the strongest thus far in 2014, with the indices up 0.96% and 1.27% respectively.
• YTD, corporate financial issuances continue to be one of the SFI’s strongest performing segments. Corporate financial issuances (SFI Financial Bond Index) are up 4.57%, outperforming both the broader SFI and SFI Corporate Bond Index.

S&P Capital IQ™ To Become A Strategic Source Of Real-Time Market Data And End-To-End Connectivity For GlobalView’s MarketView Data Management Solutions

Date 03/11/2014

S&P Capital IQ, a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE:MHFI) and a leading provider of research, analytics and data, today announced it had signed an agreement with GlobalView, one of the world’s largest sources forenterprise-wide, market data solutions for the energy and commodity industries, to deliver a comprehensive market data and network infrastructure solution.  Among the services S&P Capital IQ will provide access to more than 25 real-time and delayed market data feeds, end-to-end fully redundant network management, and professional services required to integrate the S&P Capital IQ feeds into GlobalView’s existing data management infrastructure, speeding time-to-market.   

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.