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European Commission: Speech By Michel Barnier Following This Week's Round Of Article 50 Negotiations (6th-9th February)

Date 09/02/2018

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am happy to be here. I would like to thank you for being here rather than in front of your television watching the opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympic Games, which has just started in Pyeongchang.

Allow me to extend my personal best wishes to both the Korean hosts and the athletes.

To come back to Brexit, we agreed with the UK side this week that the agenda would cover Ireland, the governance of the withdrawal agreement, and the transition.

Convicted Illegal Money Lender Sentenced To Three And A Half Years Imprisonment And Issued With The UK Financial Conduct Authority's First Serious Crime Prevention Order

Date 09/02/2018

Illegal money lender, Dharam Prakash Gopee (64), was today sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment by a Judge in Southwark Crown Court after guilty verdicts yesterday (8 February 2018) for offences under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For February 9th 2018

Date 09/02/2018

A total turnover of 4.426 billion shares worth N24.236 billion in 29,573 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 3.268 billion shares valued at N28.123 billion that exchanged hands last week in 35,761 deals. 

BOX Options Exchange: Expansion Of Short Term Options Series Program – Monday SPY Expirations

Date 09/02/2018

Subject to regulatory approval, BOX Options Exchange (“BOX” or “Exchange”) will expand the Short Term Option Series Program (“STOS”) to list for trading options series on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (“SPY”) which expire on Mondays (“Monday SPY Expirations”).

Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange And Montréal Exchange Closed For Family Day

Date 09/02/2018

Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange and Montréal Exchange will be closed on Monday, February 19, 2018 for Family Day.

Solactive No. 1 Index Provider For ETF Launches In January Close To 50% Of ETF Launches In The First Month Of 2018 Rely On Solactive Services

Date 09/02/2018

This year has started strong for Solactive and the ETF industry. The German index engineer has achieved a record number of index-linked launches, making it the number one provider of indices for ETFs in January 2018. With 55 ETF launches globally, 25 have involved Solactive as either creator, calculator, or administrator of the underlying index. ETF launches have covered both the equity and fixed-income spaces, and have involved a wide array of strategies including broad-based benchmark solutions and more niche strategies, such as smart beta or thematic indices.

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Letter To Treasury Select Committee On RBS GRG

Date 09/02/2018

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published a response to the letter received from the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee on 7 February 2018 relating to the publication of the skilled persons’ report into RBS Global Restructuring Group. 

ESMA Publishes Risk Assessment Work Programme For 2018

Date 09/02/2018

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its Risk Assessment Work Programme, setting out its priorities in assessing risks for securities markets for 2018. This Risk Assessment Work Programme provides an overview of the analytical, research, data and statistical activities by ESMA. 

Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Trading Report - 9 February, 2018

Date 09/02/2018

Click here to download Malawi Stock Exchange's weekly trading report.

Licensing Of Indian Indices And Market Data Of The Securities Listed Or Traded In India

Date 09/02/2018

Indian Exchanges(“Exchanges”), through a licensing arrangement, provide their Market Data at various levels (Real time, Delayed feed and End of the day feed) to Index Providers either directly or through their subsidiaries/group entities or through third party data vendors, for creating Indices. Such indices are licensed by the Index Providers to prospective licensees, including foreign stock and derivatives exchanges and other foreign trading platforms (“foreign exchanges and/ or trading platforms”) for enabling them to provide products for trading and settlement on such foreign exchanges and/ or foreign trading platforms. Additionally, it is possible that Exchanges could also create indices based on their Market Data which could then be licensed to such foreign exchanges and/ or trading platforms, for the purpose of trading and settlement of products based on such indices outside India. It is observed that for various reasons the volumes in derivative trading based on Indian securities including indices have reached large proportions in some of the foreign jurisdictions, resulting in migration of liquidity from India, which is not in the best interest of Indian markets.