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Dubai Mercantile Exchange Welcomes H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Energy And Industry Minister, UAE

Date 18/09/2018

Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the premier international energy futures and commodities exchange in the Middle East was honored Wednesday to welcome H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Energy and Industry Minister, UAE.

BSO And Hoptroff Bring New Plug-And-Play Time-Synchronisation Service To Market

Date 18/09/2018

Global network provider, BSO has partnered with Hoptroff London, the time-synchronization software experts, to provide the financial services community with the first fully traceable accurate Time-as-a-Service (TaaS) on the market.

SGX Welcomes Futu Securities As Derivatives Trading Member

Date 18/09/2018

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited as a Trading Member of its derivatives market.

Circular Of Shanghai International Energy Exchange On Trading Adjustments Of Crude Oil Futures Contracts For Mid-Autumn Festival 2018

Date 18/09/2018

Shanghai International Energy Exchange (hereinafter referred to as “INE”), the subsidiary of Shanghai Futures Exchange has released its circular on the trading adjustments of crude oil futures contracts for Mid-Autumn Festival 2018 on September 18, 2018 as follows:

The market will resume trading on September 25, 2018 with the central auction session from 8:55 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and the continuous trading on the night of that day.

TMX Group Statement On The Passing Of Clayton Riddell

Date 17/09/2018

TMX Group today offers its sincere condolences on the passing of Paramount Resources founder and Chairman Clayton Riddell.

Motherhood And Humble Pie: Remarks Before The Cato Institute’s FinTech Unbound Conference, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 12, 2018

Date 17/09/2018

Thank you, Peter, for that introduction.  I appreciate the opportunity to be part of this conference.  I do have a couple of disclaimers. 

I will begin with our standard SEC disclaimer: The views that I will express today are my own and do not necessarily represent those of the Commission or my fellow Commissioners.  Indeed, with respect to one particular issue I will be discussing today, my disagreement with my colleagues is sufficiently public and pronounced that it may not even warrant a disclaimer.  I speak, of course, of my dissent from the Commission’s decision to reject an exchange-traded product that was designed to give investors access to bitcoin.

The MiG Report - TSX, TSX Venture Exchange

Date 17/09/2018

SIFMA And Bank Policy Institute Respond To Banking Agencies’ Proposed Guidance On The Living Will Process - Associations Submit Comment Letter In Support Of The Living Will Process And Outlining Lessons Learned From Past Submissions

Date 17/09/2018

Today, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and the Bank Policy Institute (BPI) submitted a comment letter on the proposed guidance issued by Federal Reserve and FDIC that would apply to the living wills prepared by the eight U.S. banks designated as G-SIBs. The letter strongly endorses the living wills process for these banks and offers suggestions for improvements based on experience to date.  Emphasizing that that living wills are an important pillar of the post-crisis rulebook for the largest banks, BPI and SIFMA in the letter commend the agencies’ effort to update and refine their guidance through a public notice and comment process to make it more efficient and effective.

Canadian Securities Administrators Appoints New Secretary General

Date 17/09/2018

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today announced the appointment of Laura Belloni as Secretary General, effective September 17, 2018.

SEC And NYU To Host Sept. 21 Forum On High-Frequency Trading And Liquidity Resiliency

Date 17/09/2018

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and Division of Trading and Markets are partnering with New York University's Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions to bring together regulators, practitioners, and academics for a half-day symposium on Sept. 21 at the SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. Panelists will discuss the impact of high-frequency trading and the resiliency of liquidity in securities markets.