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Contracted And Available Capacity Should Be Transferred To Virtual Interconnection Points For Gas, ACER Advises

Date 28/08/2018

The European Commission (EC) has concluded that the transfer of contracted and available capacity to the virtual interconnection points for gas - several physical points grouped together to allow users to buy a single capacity service - is implicitly required in the Network Code on Capacity Allocation Mechanisms. Therefore, an amendment to clarify this provision is not necessary.
Kingdom Trust Launches Lloyd’s Of London-Insured Qualified Custody Platform For Digital Currency - Pioneer In Qualified Custodianship Of Digital Assets Adds Insurance To Its Industry-Leading Digital Asset Custody Offering

Date 28/08/2018

Kingdom Trust, the first regulated financial institution to offer qualified custody for digital asset investments like Bitcoin and Ethereum, has secured insurance for digital assets held on its qualified custody platform through one of the world’s most respected insurers, Lloyd’s of London. The insurance, which was successfully placed by broker SDBIC, marks a solid resolve for institutional investors seeking to enter the crypto marketplace.
JonesTrading Enhances Special Situation Trading - Industry Veteran Tim Baker Joins As Senior Vice President

Date 28/08/2018

JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC (“JonesTrading”) continues recruiting top industry talent to resource growth, naming Timothy (Tim) Baker as Senior Vice President in its Equity Sales Trading Group. Mr. Baker will be responsible for trading and account coverage, with a particular focus on special purpose acquisition companies’ (SPAC’s) and other special trading situations.
Japanese Yen And Thai Baht Crosses Added To Thomson Reuters Matching - Launch Of JPY/THB And THB/JPY To Support Japan’s Ministry Of Finance And Bank Of Thailand’s Mutual Agreement On Initiatives To Promote The Use Of Local Currencies For Trade And Investment Settlement

Date 28/08/2018

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of real-time electronic trading of spot Japanese Yen and Thai Baht cross currency pairs on Thomson Reuters Matching platform.
Trading Technologies Extends TT® Platform Into Brazil Via The B3 Data Center

Date 28/08/2018

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, today announced that execution and client connectivity services through the TT platform are now available in Brazil through the B3 Data Center. This move establishes regional access to TT’s worldwide network of data centers while providing colocated connectivity to B3 for unprecedented global execution of latency-sensitive strategies.

ACER Workshop On The Methodologies And Parameters Used To Determine Gas TSO Revenues

Date 28/08/2018

On 20 September ACER will hold a workshop on the methodologies and parameters used to determine gas TSO revenues.
Oslo Børs Millennium 9.3 – CDS Upgrade

Date 28/08/2018

The first upgrade to Millennium 9.3 in Oslo Børs’ CDS environment takes place Thursday, 30 August. Friday 31 August, the CDS environment will be available for testing of new functionality.
SET Hosts 6th GMS Focus Summit To Promote Cross-Border Products, Enhancing Regional Growth

Date 28/08/2018

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is today hosting the 6th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) exchange CEOs summit called “GMS Focus” in Bangkok. The unique platform convenes CEOs of six stock exchanges in the GMS namely Cambodia, Hanoi, Hochiminh, Laos, Yangon and Thailand to discuss opportunities of building new cross-market products and GMS investment.
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) Celebrates Emirati Women’s Day

Date 28/08/2018

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) held a celebration on the occasion of Emirati Women's Day, which will be held this year under the theme “women on the course of Zayed", which comes in conjunction His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, declaring 2018 the "Year of Zayed" in the United Arab Emirates.

Hunting Alpha With The Sling-Shot Of Big-Data, The Bow Of Cloud-Computing And The Spear Of Machine-Learning: A View From The Primordial Swamp By BMLL Technologies

Date 28/08/2018

Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection has long been analogized by those interested in the financial markets. From Andrew Lo’s “Adaptive Market Hypothesis” (an updated version of the efficient market hypothesis, derived from evolutionary principles) to Stephen Ross’s “Arbitrage Pricing Theory” (price changes are driven by arbitrage opportunities) the economic process of striking a bargain has been variously considered as an extension of the natural world.

In this opinion piece, we give a view on how the evolving tools available to market participants are driving changes in the practices of those participants and we speculate what those evolutionary trends might look like.