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Fidessa Scoops Industry Award For ETD Affirmation Service

Date 08/02/2018

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that its post-trade affirmation management service for exchange-traded derivatives has been named Best Utilities Technology at the 2018 Fund Technology & WSL Awards. These awards recognise and reward those providers who have demonstrated exceptional customer service and innovative product development over the past 12 months.

ULLINK Delivers MiFID II Best Execution Reporting In Partnership With LiquidMetrix

Date 08/02/2018

• Solution live in production leveraging Ullink UL PUBLISHER post-trade data management hub

HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts

Date 08/02/2018

Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Friday, 9 February 2018, the margin levels of the following Futures Contracts shall be as follows: 

FTSE Russell Launches Global Equities Net Of Tax Index Series For Australian Superannuation Funds

Date 08/02/2018

• FTSE All-World ex Australia Net Tax (Super) Index Series is a new global equities index series specifically for Australian superannuation funds

• Benchmark measures true performance of global equities on an after-tax basis for the superannuation industry

• Better reflects equity returns for superannuation members

• Developed in conjunction with Qantas Super, one of Australia’s largest corporate superannuation funds

SET Market Report For January 2018

Date 08/02/2018

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index at the end of January advanced 4.2 percent from end-2017 to 1,826.86 points, while a combined market capitalization of SET and Market for Alternative Investment (mai) at the end of January rose to THB 18.7 trillion (USD 584.4 billion) and the average daily trading value of both stock markets in January soared by 35 percent y-o-y to THB 78.8 billion. On January 24, SET Index closed at 1,838.96 points, an all-time high, since its inception in 1975.

Japan's Financial Services Agency: Toward A Virtuous Cycle Of Finance and Economy - Speech By Nobuchika Mori

Date 08/02/2018

Click here to download a speech by Nobuchika Mori.

ASIC: Operators Of 'Binary Options Trading Boiler Room' Banned Following Conviction

Date 08/02/2018

ASIC has permanently banned Jana Jaros and Jackson Laurence Malcolm Capper from providing financial services or from engaging in any credit activities after they were convicted and sentenced on charges brought by ASIC.

US Department Of Justice: Rabobank NA Pleads Guilty, Agrees To Pay Over $360 Million - As A Result Of Rabobank’s Bank Secrecy Act And Anti-Money Laundering Failures It Processed Over $360 Million In Illicit Funds And Then Conspired With Its Executives In An Attempt To Conceal These Ongoing Failures From Its Regulator

Date 08/02/2018

Rabobank National Association (Rabobank), a Roseville, California subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt and pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge for impairing, impeding and obstructing its primary regulator, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the OCC) by concealing deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (AML) program and for obstructing the OCC’s examination of Rabobank.  Rabobank will forfeit $368,701,259 as a result of allowing illicit funds to be processed through the bank without adequate Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) or AML review. 

Nasdaq Announces 2018 Investor Day

Date 08/02/2018

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) will host its 2018 Investor Day on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 with presentations given by Adena Friedman, President and CEO, and other members of Nasdaq’s senior leadership team on the company’s operations and strategy.

CME Group Increases Regular Quarterly Dividend By Six Percent

Date 07/02/2018

CME Group Inc., the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today declared a first-quarter dividend of $0.70 per share, a six percent increase from the prior rate of $0.66 per share.  The dividend is payable March 26, 2018, to shareholders of record as of March 9, 2018.