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ICJ And Broadridge Execute The First Blockchain-Based Interoperable Proxy Voting Process In Japan - ICJ And Broadridge Collaborated To Design And Execute A Blockchain-Based Proxy Voting Process For The Japanese Market, With A Pilot Mirroring The Reconciliation And Vote Delivery Process Using DLT

Date 15/01/2019

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), an S&P 500 company and global Fintech leader, and ICJ Inc., a joint venture of Broadridge and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE), have successfully conducted the first Proof of Concept (PoC) of blockchain-based proxy voting in Japan, using Quorum as the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Nasdaq Dubai Launches Futures Trading On MSCI’s Index Of UAE Equities In Latest Market Expansion - International And Regional Investors Can Use The Futures To Gain Exposure To UAE Market

Date 15/01/2019

Nasdaq Dubai today launched futures trading on the MSCI United Arab Emirates (UAE) equity index, in the latest expansion of the exchange’s futures market. The contracts are designed to appeal to international and regional investors seeking exposure to leading UAE companies.

Bank Leumi (UK) Selects Volante Technologies’ VolPay Open Banking PSD2 Solution - Benefiting From Volante’s One-Stop-Shop For PSD2 Compliance And Open Banking

Date 15/01/2019

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing and financial message integration, today announced that Bank Leumi (UK) has selected VolPay Open Banking to implement PSD2 compliance and enable open banking business models.  

Quest Partners Selects QuantHouse For Global Quantitative Trading Solutions - Providing A One-Stop Solution For Global Automated And Systematic Trading

Date 15/01/2019

QuantHouse, the independent global provider of high performance systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo development tools and global network infrastructure, today announced it has been selected by Quest Partners LLC (“Quest”) to support the diverse needs of their automated traders.

Lyxor Lists Green Bond ETF On Nasdaq Stockholm

Date 15/01/2019

• Lyxor expands Nordic presence with its first listing on Nasdaq's Nordic exchanges
• Lyxor Green Bond UCITS ETF tracks an index of green bonds approved by the Climate Bonds Initiative 
• Available for trading today

Securities And Futures Commission (SFC) And The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financie Sign MoU On Luxembourg-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition Of Funds

Date 15/01/2019

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF), which will allow eligible Hong Kong public funds and Luxembourg UCITS funds to be distributed in each other’s market through a streamlined process.

Japan's Financial Services Agency: Financial Industry-Wide Cybersecurity Exercise (Delta Wall III)

Date 15/01/2019

The ensuring of cyber security across the financial sector has become a crucial issue for the stability of the overall financial system while cyber-attacks in the financial sector are increasingly becoming sophisticated and complicated. In this context, for upgrading the capabilities to respond to cyber-attacks, especially across small and medium-sized financial institutions, the FSA conducted the financial industry-wide cybersecurity exercise (“Delta Wall* III”) over the period of October 22 to 26, 2018.
* Delta Wall means a key element in cyber security: the triad (Delta) of self-help, mutual assistance, and public assistance.

JPX Monthly Headlines - December 2018

Date 15/01/2019

JPX group companies undertake various initiatives and disseminate information with the aim of providing the most attractive markets to all users. Every month, we showcase the highlights of these efforts in short and concise summaries just for you.

Japan's Financial Services Agency: Update Of The Policy Approaches To Strengthen Cyber Security In The Financial Sector

Date 15/01/2019

The FSA issued the updated Policy Approaches to Strengthen Cyber Security in the Financial Sector to address new challenges, in particular:

1. Responses to accelerating digitalization
2. Contribution and responses to international discussion
3. Responses to Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020.

Securities Traders’ Income Voucher Products Linked With Dalian Commodity Exchange Commodity Index Put On Sale

Date 15/01/2019

Two income voucher products developed by Orient Securities on the basis of Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) Commodity Index are officially listed on January 7. The two products are the call and put dual options income structures, respectively, whose underlying is the DCE soybean meal futures price index. It is introduced that the above two products are new securities traders’ income voucher products linked with the DCE Commodity Index after a similar product debuted in December 2018.