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S&P Dow Jones Indices: Europe Dashboard

Date 30/08/2019

• British stocks weighed heavily on European equities in August, while sovereign bond yields hit new lows in several countries. 
• In a challenging month for risky assets, the S&P Europe 350® Utilities and Consumer Staples sectors benefited from a demand for more defensive exposures. 
• Switzerland was a bright spot: the region’s equities made the largest positive contribution to the S&P Europe 350, while the S&P Switzerland Sovereign Bond Index gained 4.4%.  

Royal Bank of Canada And Toronto-Dominion Bank Pay More Than $24 Million For Foreign Exchange Compliance Failings

Date 30/08/2019

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) today approved settlement agreements with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) related to compliance failures in the banks’ foreign exchange (FX) trading businesses. These failures allowed RBC and TD FX traders to share confidential customer information in chatrooms with FX traders at competitor firms. 

SEC Monitoring Impact Of Hurricane Dorian On Capital Markets

Date 30/08/2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission is closely monitoring the impact of Hurricane Dorian on investors and capital markets.

Baton Systems Secures $12 Million Series A Led By Trinity Ventures - Funds To Accelerate Global Deployment Of Distributed Ledger Bank-To-Bank Payment Infrastructure Already Processing $12 Billion Daily

Date 30/08/2019

Baton Systems (“Baton”), a provider of high-speed, blockchain-inspired, bank-to-bank payments infrastructure, has raised more than $12 million to dramatically increase processing times and efficiencies within the $2 trillion global payments market. The Series A investment round is led by Trinity Ventures, with participation from Alsop Louie and Commerce Ventures.

NSE Indices Index Dashboard For The Month Ended August 2019

Date 30/08/2019

Click here to download the ' Index Dashboard' for the month ended August 2019. 

Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Market Report For August 30th 2019

Date 30/08/2019

A total turnover of  713.141 million shares worth N13.295 billion in 16,237 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 2.337 billion shares valued at N19.712 billion that exchanged hands last week in 18,379 deals. 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change On Securities Market

Date 30/08/2019

CCP NCC is changing PcH_max parameter value that defines price up limit for IDVP shares on Securities market starting from September 2, 2019:

BISX Hurricane Closure Procedures

Date 30/08/2019

The Bahamas International Securities Exchange Limited (BISX) wishes to inform the public that due to the threat of Hurricane Dorian, BISX’s office will be closed Friday 30 August 2019 at 1 p.m. Given the unpredictable nature of hurricanes, BISX will remain closed until the hurricane passes.

MNI Chicago Business Barometer August 2019: Chicago Business Barometer™ Lifted To 50.4 In August

Date 30/08/2019

The Chicago Business BarometerTM, produced with MNI, rose 6.0 points to 50.4 in August, up from 44.4 in July. The index had been in contractionary territory for two months before this month’s gain.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Standards Advisory Panel - July 2019

Date 30/08/2019

The third meeting of the Standards Advisory Panel (SAP) was held at the Bank of England in July.