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FIX Trading Community Announces Industry’s Adoption Of FIX Protocol For TESI

Date 27/02/2014

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced that the industry has begun implementation of the guidelines set down by the FIX Trading Community to reduce operational risk and enable more efficient set up of clients on OTC electronic trading platforms.

CME Clearing Europe Expands Its Suite Of OTC Interest Rate Swap Offerings - Additional Products Build On CME Group's Global Interest Rate Swaps Initiative

Date 27/02/2014

CME Clearing Europe, CME Group's European clearing house, today announced that it has received Bank of England approval to add Overnight Index swaps (OIS), zero coupon swaps, Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs), basis swaps, variable notional swaps and SEK, DKK and NOK currencies for clearing beginning 3 March to its existing interest rate swap offering.  The expansion of products in Europe adds to the global offering of CME Group, which has cleared more than $20 trillion in notional value with more than $11 trillion currently in open interest since launching 19 October, 2010.

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: Crowd Funding Gets Green Light

Date 27/02/2014

Commerce Minister Craig Foss today announced Cabinet has approved regulations for crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending as part of the Government’s financial market overhaul.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Issues Third-Quarter Report

Date 27/02/2014

In its Quarterly Report published today, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) summarises key regulatory work in the reporting period from October to December 2013.

Dalian Commodity Exchange: Reasonable Risk Control System To Ensure Smooth Operation Of PP Futures

Date 27/02/2014

The reasonable risk control system is an important factor to ensure the smooth operation and functioning of the futures market. What is the basis for the designing of the risk control system for the polypropylene (PP) futures, the first new futures product in the Year of Horse? At the “Workshop for Analysts and Business Personnel of PP Futures” held in Shanghai yesterday, an official of the industrial products business division of Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) said in the interview that in accordance with the product characteristics, trade characteristics and the industrial structure for the PP futures and with reference to the experience in the risk control for the plastic and chemical futures products, DCE has rationally designed the risk control system for the PP futures, which can effectively prevent and control the market risks and ensure the stable operation of the market.

US Trade Groups Send Letter To Chairman Camp Opposing Lending Tax In Tax Reform Proposal

Date 27/02/2014

Today, the American Bankers Association, the Consumer Bankers Association, the Financial Services Forum, Financial Services Roundtable, the Independent Community Bankers of America, the Institute of International Finance, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, The Clearing House Association, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) opposing the new lending tax on financial institutions included in Camp's tax reform discussion draft. 

SIFMA Statement On House Republican Tax Reform Proposal

Date 26/02/2014

SIFMA today released the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., president and CEO, on the lending tax in the House Republican Tax Reform Proposal, which would impose a new tax on financial institutions:

"While we are encouraged by Chairman Camp's commitment to comprehensive tax reform, we oppose the unprecedented imposition of a tax on a single sector, and further, on a subset of a single sector that is contradictory to the principles of tax reform and simplicity.  We are concerned that this new tax will have far-reaching unintended consequences that could stifle economic growth and job creation at a time when the economy is still struggling to gain traction.  Further, as proposed this tax would negatively impact the allocation of credit and provisions of financial services to individuals and institutions."

CBOE Wins Three Top Awards

Date 26/02/2014

• Outstanding Contribution – William J. Brodsky
• Best Options Exchange
• Most Innovative Exchange Technology - Options

CBOE Wins Three Top Awards

Date 26/02/2014

• Outstanding Contribution – William J. Brodsky
• Best Options Exchange
• Most Innovative Exchange Technology - Options

NASDAQ Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks As Of Settlement Date February 15, 2014

Date 26/02/2014

At the end of the settlement date of February 15, 2014, short interest in 2,175 NASDAQ Global Market^SM securities totaled 7,264,979,104 shares compared with 7,121,344,575 shares in 2,166 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of January 31, 2013. The Mid-February short interest represents 3.52 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.68 days for the prior reporting period.