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Aussie Fund Manager Hires Blockchain Co-Inventor, Opens 4 International Offices: First Digital Capital

Date 01/05/2018

First Digital Capital, the Australian blockchain investment manager, today announced it had retained blockchain co-inventor W. Scott Stornetta, Ph.D. as Chief Scientist and established presences in New York, Geneva, London and Hong Kong.

ASX Investor Presentation To Macquarie Conference

Date 01/05/2018

Click here to download a presentstion, "Strengthening the foundations for continued resilience and future growth", by Dominic Stevens, ASX's Managing Director & CEO to the 2018 Macquarie Australia Conference in Sydney.

Tokyo Financial Exchange Trading Volume in April 2018

Date 01/05/2018

(1) Interest Rate Futures contracts

The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 127,048 ( - 43.0% MoM / - 8.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 6,352 . 

ASX CEO Dominic Stevens Speaking Notes To Macquarie Conference

Date 01/05/2018

Good morning and welcome. My name is Dominic Stevens and I am the Managing Director and CEO of ASX.

Today I would like to talk to you about our results for the 9 months to 31 March 2018, which are up on the prior comparative period (pcp), helped by a very strong March quarter. I will then spend most of my time discussing the significant work ASX is undertaking to strengthen our foundations. This is particularly relevant given we are in the process of upgrading or replacing a number of core systems that have served ASX and the Australian financial markets well over the last 20 years.

ASIC Takes Action On Misleading Or Deceptive Conduct In ICOs

Date 01/05/2018

ASIC is focused on misleading or deceptive conduct in the marketing and selling of digital or virtual tokens via initial coin offerings (ICOs). These offers can involve significant risks for investors that are often not disclosed or well understood.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Final Settlement Prices of Cash-Settled Oil Futures April 2018 Contracts

Date 01/05/2018

Final settlement prices for cash-settled oil futures April 2018 contracts are as follows:

(Yen/kl)
Platts cash-settled Dubai Crude Oil  46,130
Cash-settled Barge Gasoline          62,280
Cash-settled Lorry Gasoline          60,830
Platts cash-settled Barge Kerosene   60,940
Platts cash-settled Lorry Kerosene   62,170
Platts cash-settled Barge Gas Oil    62,840
Platts cash-settled Lorry Gas Oil    62,200

Shanghai Stock Exchange-Listed Companies Present Sound Business Performance, Improved Management Quality

Date 01/05/2018

A total of 1,417 listed companies in the Shanghai market released their 2017 annual reports on April 30, 2018. Over the past year, the socialist economic construction has come to a new era; the supply-side structural reform has been further advanced; and the SSE-listed companies have seized the momentum to advance their business performance to new levels. The SSE-listed companies have taken the initiative to adapt to the national strategic development of promoting economic restructuring and upgrading, realized the reform in quality, efficiency and driving force for their business operation, and achieved an array of outstanding results. In 2017, they realized the operation revenue of RMB27.97 trillion, up by 14.46% year on year, and the net profit of about RMB2.62 trillion, up by 18.55%. The growth rate has set a new record in recent years, and achieved continuous growth since the implementation of the 13th Five-year Plan. Judging from the business performance, the SSE-listed companies have presented 8 new highlights in terms of their economic development tenacity, structural optimization and new kinetic energy development.

Economy Statement For The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee Of The Securities Industry And Financial Markets Association

Date 30/04/2018

Over the past four quarters, real GDP has grown by 2.9 percent, the most rapid pace since early 2015.  At nearly nine years old, the current expansion is set to become the second-longest stretch of continuous economic growth in the postwar period.  Although the pace of U.S. economic growth moderated to an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter, compared with 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter, a rebound is expected in coming months and overall strong growth is forecast for the year as a whole.

Federal Court Enters $3.5 Million In Final Judgments Against Ryan Madigan Of Pittsford, New York, Randell A. Vest Of Fort Myers, Florida, And Colorado Company R2 Capital Group, LLC - Judgment Follows Partial Summary Judgment In Which Federal District Court Concluded That Ryan Madigan Engaged In Various Acts Of Commodities Fraud

Date 30/04/2018

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that on April 11, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado entered Default Judgment against Defendants Randall A. Vest and his holding company, Bulletproof Vest, Inc. (Bulletproof Vest).  The judgment resolves a CFTC enforcement action filed on August 6, 2014, charging Defendants Ryan Madigan of Pittsford, New York; Vest of Fort Meyers, Florida; and Ryan Tomazin of Stamford, Connecticut with commodity futures and off-exchange retail foreign currency(forex) fraud and misappropriation (see CFTC Complaint and Press Release 6981-14, August 21, 2014).

US Treasury Announces Marketable Borrowing Estimates

Date 30/04/2018

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced its current estimates of privately-held net marketable borrowing[1] for the April – June 2018 and July – September 2018 quarters:

• During the April – June 2018 quarter, Treasury expects to borrow $75 billion in privately-held net marketable debt, assuming an end-of-June cash balance of $360 billion.  The borrowing estimate is $101 billion lower than announced in January 2018.  The decrease in borrowing is driven primarily by the higher end-of-March cash balance combined with the higher cash surplus during the quarter.2
• During the July – September 2018 quarter, Treasury expects to borrow $273 billion in privately-held net marketable debt, assuming an end-of-September cash balance of $350 billion.