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London Stock Exchange Group Signs Partnership Agreement With Borsa İstanbul

Date 13/01/2015

• London Stock Exchange Derivatives Market to offer trading in Turkish index and equity derivatives products
• Trades to be cleared by LCH.Clearnet
• FTSE and Borsa İstanbul to launch index partnership in 2015

Euronext Launches Options On ETFs In Amsterdam - New Option Products Offer Investors An Alternative Low Cost Way Of Investing In Broad Indices

Date 13/01/2015

Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced the launch of options on six iShares ETFs on its highly successful and innovative Amsterdam derivatives market. The new option products will provide investors with enhanced investment opportunities in ETFs tracking a broad range of macro themes. The options on ETFs are developed and launched as a result of strong market demand. Participants in the launch are iShares (the ETF unit of Blackrock) global quantitative trading firm Susquehanna that acts as liquidity providerand asset manager Theodoor Gillissen.

SGX MSCI Malaysia Index Futures Takes-Off In February 2015

Date 13/01/2015

• The Singapore Exchange (SGX) extends its footprint in the ASEAN economic zone – an area with more than 600 million people.
• With launch of SGX MSCI Malaysia Index futures, SGX’s derivatives product suite will cover half of the countries in Southeast Asia.
• Denominated in US dollar, the SGX MSCI Malaysia Index futures contract will allow investors to hedge against equity volatility and currency fluctuations.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Good Delivery Material Price Differential For January 2015 Rubber Contract

Date 13/01/2015

The price differential of the Good Delivery material for the January 2015 contract month in the Rubber market has be determined as follows,

SWIFT Extends Sanctions Screening To Support All Financial Transaction Formats - Hosted Service Provides Simple, Cost-Effective Compliance With Sanctions Regulations

Date 13/01/2015

SWIFT announces the extension of its Sanctions Screening service to support all messages used in financial transactions, regardless of format or financial network. Users can now screen all transaction formats, including SEPA and Fedwire, and transactions sent over networks other than SWIFT. The extended service also enables greater flexibility and back-office integration, addressing the needs of mid-sized banks and other users that have more complex business and operational requirements.

SGX Unveils Campaign To Help Investors Benefit From Smaller Board Lots

Date 13/01/2015

2014 ended on a positive note. The Straits Times Index (STI) delivered a 9.5% total return, above the 10-year average of 8.7% per annum. More investors are investing. In the past year, 71,043 new accounts were opened, 12% more than the year before. More than half of the 1.7 million CDP accounts open have investments today.

EDHEC-Risk Institute And Rothschild & Cie Launch New Research Chair On Active Allocation To Smart Factor Indices

Date 13/01/2015

Rothschild & Cie and EDHEC-Risk Institute have announced the creation of a new research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute entitled “Active Allocation to Smart Factor Indices.” This new chair will follow on from the previous Rothschild & Cie research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute on “The Case for Inflation-Linked Corporate Bonds: Issuers’ and Investors’ Perspectives.”

Moscow Exchange: Derivatives Market Intraday Clearing Session To End Later Than Usual Today

Date 13/01/2015

Due to the need to conduct additional verification of the intraday clearing session results on Moscow Exchange's Derivatives Market, the session will end seven minutes later today, at 2:10 pm MSK.

JSE Equity And Equity Derivatives Markets End 2014 With Several Record Highs - Equity And Equity Derivatives Markets Achieve Outstanding Records In Trades And Value Traded In December

Date 13/01/2015

Salient features:

JSE Equity Market

• A record eight new companies, with a total market capitalization of R23bn, listed on the JSE in December
• 45% increase in the value of trades for December
• R345bn value traded for December, highest ever December month turnover recorded 
• Net inflow of R13.4 billion from foreigners in 2014 (compared to net outflow in 2013)
• All-time daily value traded high reached on 18 December; value traded at R53.7bn

Dubai Financial Market Performance, 2014

Date 13/01/2015

The Dubai Financial Market General Index increased by 12% to 3774 points at the end of this year compared to 3369.8 points at the end of 2013. At the sectoral level, indexes of three out of the nine sectors represented on DFM ended the year in the green, with the Banking sector increasing the most by 32.3%, followed by the Real Estate and Construction sector by 17.6% and Industrial sector by 17.5%. The Services, Insurance, Telecommunication, Consumer Staples, Financial and Investment Services and Transportation indices down 54.6%, 29.4%, 24.3%, 16.2%, 6.4%  and 5.6% respectively.