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BATS Exchange Welcomes ProShares ETF - ProShares Short Term USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Begins Trading Today

Date 21/11/2013

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a leading operator of securities markets in the U.S. and Europe, today announced that the ProShares Short Term USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (BATS: EMSH) will begin trading today on BATS Exchange.

Federal Reserve Governor Jerome H. Powell At The Clearing House 2013 Annual Meeting, New York, New York November 21, 2013 - OTC Market Infrastructure Reform: Opportunities And Challenges

Date 21/11/2013

The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system. In response, governments around the world have undertaken a variety of far-reaching regulatory reforms that, I would argue, can be grouped into three categories: those intended to strengthen institutions; those aimed at strengthening financial markets; and those that take steps to reinforce and, in some cases, build new market infrastructures.

ISITC Europe Confirms Topics And Speakers For Its Annual Conference

Date 21/11/2013

ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, has today confirmed further details regarding topics and speakers for its annual conference, to be held at RBS’s London office, 280 Bishopsgate, on the 26th November.  

Dalian Commodity Exchange, MCX Sign MOU On Cooperation

Date 21/11/2013

Instinet Enhances Commission Management Platform - Plazma® Augmented With Provider Rating Functionality - Fixed Income Capabilities And Broker Participants Added To T*Share Commission Aggregation Program

Date 21/11/2013

Instinet Incorporated today announced three new developments around its award-winning commission management platform:

• A highly-customizable Provider Rating tool has been integrated within Plazma, allowing buy-side commission management administrators to qualitatively rate a provider’s service level relative to its peers and automatically generate a “Report Card.” Users may also download only the raw ratings data should they wish to produce their own custom reports.
• Clients are now able to aggregate commission credits generated from US Fixed Income trades (in addition to Equities and Options) through the T*Share program. With T*Share, clients can consolidate the soft dollar and CCA/CSA balances held by participating brokers into a single account, removing one of the biggest obstacles to managing and administering a commission budget.
• More than two dozen new brokers have joined T*Share in the last year, bringing the total number of global participants to over 150. With the breadth of providers now available through T*Share, Instinet can accommodate virtually any existing CSA/CCA arrangements a client may have by quickly and easily aggregating the credits into 

LIQUITY Goes live - Revolutionising The Liquidity Of Private Company Equity

Date 21/11/2013

This week LIQUITY celebrated the launch of its ground-breaking private equity marketplace with an event attended by more than 200 interested parties, including CEOs, angel investors, venture capitalists and other city professionals. The event, supported by UBS Wealth Management and Wedlake Bell LLP, was held at Canary Wharf’s Technology hub - Level39.

Platts Launches Quarterly Petrochemical Analytics Report On U.S. Shale Gas Boom - Features Market Analysis, Bentek Energy’s 10-Year Price Forecasts And Holistic Approach

Date 21/11/2013

Abundant shale natural gas reserves in the United States are expected to keep petrochemical producers in North America well stocked with inexpensive ethane for the next decade, according to the just-launched Platts Petrochemical Analytics: Shale Gas to Polyethylene – Global Outlook to 2023, a new quarterly report which features a 10-year price forecast from Platts’ oil and natural gas analytics unit Bentek Energy*.

NASDAQ OMX Nordic Revises Excessive Order Entry Ratio

Date 21/11/2013

NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) Nordic will implement changes in cash equity market pricing structure for members on its Danish, Finnish and Swedish markets effective of December 2, 2013. The order to trade ratio will be amended from 250:1 to 100:1.

TOM Insight October 2013

Date 21/11/2013

Click here to download TOM’s October ‘13 Insight, a document describing matching statistics on TOM MTF and savings made for the retail client by TOM Smart Execution.

Warsaw Stock Exchange: Shorter Trading Session Until 31 December 2014

Date 21/11/2013

• The Exchange Supervisory Board has approved modifications to the Exchange Rules which extend the applicability of the temporarily shorter hours of the trading session until the end of 2014. 
• According to the current arrangements, the trading session starts at 08:45 for derivative instruments and 09:00 for cash market instruments, and ends at 17:05 on both markets.