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HKEx’s AHFT To Include Block Trading, Mini HSI Futures And Mini HHI Futures From 6 January 2014

Date 02/01/2014

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce Mini Hang Seng Index (Mini HSI) and Mini H-shares Index (Mini HHI) Futures as well as its Block Trading Facility (BTF) to its After-Hours Futures Trading (AHFT) session starting on Monday, 6 January 2014. 

SWIFT Announces 2013 Rebate Of EUR 33 Million - Global Financial Messaging Cooperative Announces 2013 Rebate To Users- Message Price Reductions Drive Traffic Volumes To Record High Of Five Billion Messages A Year - Further Substantial Price Reductions Enter Into Force On 1st Jan 2014

Date 02/01/2014

SWIFT announces a 10% rebate on 2013 messaging fees which will return approximately EUR 33 million to SWIFT users worldwide. The rebate will be paid in March 2014.

Warsaw Stock Exchange: WIG30short And WIG30lev Published As Of 2014

Date 02/01/2014

• WSE starts to publish the new indices based on WIG30: WIG30short and WIG30lev as of January 2014.

Dalian Commodity Exchange Maintains Listed Products Well - Refining Listed Products, Improving Capacity For Market Service - Systems To Be Adjusted And Perfected, Including Introduction Of 3-Step Delivery

Date 02/01/2014

Recently, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) issued a notice that it has revised the corn delivery quality standards. In fact, it is only one of the serial achievements made in 2013 by DCE in maintaining the listed products. In addition to the adjustments to the quality standards of the corn futures product in delivery, DCE has continuously refined the market and improved the capacity for market service by modifying futures contracts and quality standards, perfecting relevant systems and reducing trading and delivery costs, thus keeping a good maintenance of the listed products.

Standard & Poors Dow Jones Launch A Stand Alone County Index For Palestine - Palestine Exchange Being Reviewed By FTSE Indices For Inclusion As Frontier Market

Date 02/01/2014

S&P Dow Jones announced on 18 December 2013 that it has added coverage of Palestine to its suite of frontier market indices. The Palestine index is currently a standalone country index. Palestine will remain on S&P Dow Jones Indices watch-list for potential future inclusion in the S&P Frontier BMI and Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market.

Dalian Commodity Exchange’s New Progress In Banking-Futures Cooperation

Date 02/01/2014

On December 26, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) announced that the two banks of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPD Bank) and Industrial Bank have been added to the list of the designated futures margin depository banks. Among the conditions for the two banks to become DCE’s designated futures margin depository banks, what interests the market is that the two banks should make feasible service programs for futures innovation in promoting the functioning of the futures market and innovating the businesses and the cooperation in accordance with the features of the listed products and the members and clients. In this regard, a DCE official said in a recent interview that it is an important initiative of DCE in strengthening the capacity of the futures market for serving the real economy and energetically promoting the cooperation of the banking and futures sectors by taking the opportunity of liberalizing the qualification for the depository business of the futures margin. Currently, initial results and new progress have been achieved in DCE’s efforts in the cooperation of the banking and futures sectors.

Latvia Joins The Euro Area

Date 01/01/2014

• The euro is introduced in Latvia
• Latvijas Banka becomes a member of the Eurosystem

Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) – Annual Statistical Report - 2013

Date 01/01/2014

• Total Value of Shares Traded reached SR 1,369.67 billion
• 28.97 million Transactions were executed during the year 2013

CFTC’s Division Of Market Oversight Issues Time-Limited No-Action Relief Relating To Certain CDS Clearing-Related Swaps Executed Pursuant To A CDS Settlement Price Process

Date 31/12/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (Commission) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today issued a no-action letter providing time-limited relief relating to certain occasional, off-facility, cleared credit default swaps (CDSs) that are entered into pursuant to a DCO’s rules related to its price submission process for determining end-of-day settlement prices for cleared CDSs (for the purposes of this relief, this settlement price process is referred to as the “CDS Settlement Price Process,” and the swaps associated with this process are referred to as “Clearing-Related Swaps”).

ISDA In Review - Year-End 2013

Date 31/12/2013

A compendium of links to new documents, research papers, press releases and comment letters from the Association.