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Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes In September 2023

Date 03/10/2023

In September 2023, total trading volumes across Moscow Exchange’s markets grew by 67.0% to RUB 124.1 trln (RUB 74.3 in September 2022). Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance for August 2023 and all comparisons are with the same period last year.

Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer: Weakening Crop Prices And High Production Costs Weigh On Farmer Sentiment

Date 03/10/2023

Agricultural producers' sentiment declined for the second month in a row, as the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer index fell 9 points to a reading of 106 in September. Producers expressed concern about their current situation as well as future prospects for their farms. The Current Conditions and Future Expectations Indices both declined 10 points to a reading of 98 and 109, respectively. Notably, all three indices stand below their readings from one year ago. This month's Ag Economy Barometer survey was conducted from September 11-15, 2023.

TRG Screen Announces Strategic Growth Investment From Vista Equity Partners - Partnership With Vista Reinforces TRG Screen’s Leadership In Enterprise Subscription Spend And Usage Management; Capital Will Accelerate Growth Initiatives To Address An Increasingly Complex Market Data And Information Environment

Date 03/10/2023

TRG Screen, the leading provider of enterprise subscription spend and usage management software, today announced a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. TRG Screen will use the capital to accelerate product innovation, talent, and go-to-market functions to meet the growing demand for transparency, compliance, and control of market data and information consumption. 

GPW: Stock Of Prosus, Owner Of OLX And PayU, And Stock Of ASML Holding To Be Newly Listed On GlobalConnect

Date 03/10/2023

• Shares of the Dutch investment group Prosus, owner of OLX and PayU among others, and ASML Holding, a leading supplier on the global semiconductor market. will be newly listed on GPW’s foreign stock market GlobalConnect on 5 October 2023
• The shares will be introduced to trading on GlobalConnect following an application of the Introducing Market Maker, Santander Biuro Maklerskie

OCC Reports September 2023 Monthly Volume Data

Date 03/10/2023

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through September 2023 was 44.4 million contracts. Total monthly volume for September 2023 was 847.8 million contracts.

ESMA To Launch Common Supervisory Action On MiFID II Sustainability Requirements

Date 03/10/2023

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, will launch a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with National Competent Authorities (NCAs) on the integration of sustainability in firms’ suitability assessment and product governance processes and procedures in 2024.

CME Group Reports Second-Highest September And Q3 ADV On Record

Date 03/10/2023

• Highest-ever Q3 volume for interest rate and agricultural products
• Record Equity Index options in September and Q3

UK Financial Conduct Authority Bans Simon Hughes For Failures In Advice Given To British Steel Pension Scheme Members

Date 03/10/2023

The FCA has banned Simon Hughes of S&M Hughes Limited (in liquidation) from advising customers on pension transfers and pension opt outs, and from holding any senior management function in a regulated firm.

HKEX: Adjustment Of New World Development Structured Products, Futures And Options

Date 03/10/2023

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has announced the arrangements for the adjustment to New World Development Co Ltd (New World Development) structured products, futures and options to account for New World Development’s conditional special dividend distribution.

Eventus, Phillip Capital Inc. Announce Extension Of Relationship For Trade Surveillance On All PhillipCapital Markets

Date 03/10/2023

Eventus, a leading global provider of state-of-the-art, at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of defense, and Phillip Capital Inc. (PhillipCapital), the Chicago-based futures commission merchant (FCM) and broker-dealer subsidiary of Singapore-based PhillipCapital Group, announced today the extension of their relationship and the brokerage and clearing firm's use of the Validus platform to meet all of its trade surveillance needs.