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SGX Index Edge Launches SGX Iron Ore Futures Indices

Date 18/09/2017

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the launch of SGX Iron Ore Futures Indices, a suite of inverse and leveraged indices calculated off the SGX TSI Iron Ore CFR China (62% Fe Fines) Index Futures.

Individual Shareholder Representative Selected By The EC To Advise On The Implementation Of Shareholder Rights Directive - BETTER FINANCE Is Pleased To Announce That Christiane Hölz Will Represent BETTER FINANCE and DSW, BETTER FINANCE’s German Member Organisation, At The Commission Expert Group On Technical Aspects Of Corporate Governance Processes

Date 18/09/2017

As it stands, a significant part of transferable shares in companies are managed through intermediaries due to legal or technical reasons and direct interaction between shareholders and the investee company is often costly, ineffective or impossible, particularly cross-border.

Iberclear Successfully Completes Migration To T2S

Date 18/09/2017

• Spain joins the Eurosystem’s settlement platform, thus aligning the Spanish stock market’s post-trade system with the European
• All the changes will contribute to greater competitiveness and efficiency as well as optimising settlement, registration and custody costs
• In addition, it brings together the settlement of Equity and Fixed Income under a single system, ARCO

Percival's DEPEND & HUBBLE Go Live With T2S In Three Baltic Countries 

Date 18/09/2017

Percival’s DEPEND CSD solution and HUBBLE message-layer went into production today at the national CSDs in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The three CSDs form a single regional CSD handling post trade operations for the three countries in a single platform.

Nasdaq Merges Its Baltic CSDs To Create Nasdaq CSD - Central Securities Depositories In Estonia, Latvia And Lithuania Become A Single Entity Which Has Joined The Pan-European Securities Settlement Platform T2S

Date 18/09/2017

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced the cross-border merger of the central securities depositories (CSDs) of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into a single licensed legal entity – Nasdaq CSD Societas Europaea (Nasdaq CSD). Nasdaq CSD is the first CSD in the EU to be reauthorized under the European CSD Regulation (CSDR). This is the first time a common authorization, supervision and regulatory framework for CSDs has been instituted at a pan-European level.

Boerse Stuttgart Pushes Digitisation With Launch Of New Subsidiary - Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures GmbH Develops Innovative Business Models For Exchange-Based And Over-The-Counter Trading

Date 18/09/2017

Boerse Stuttgart GmbH has a new subsidiary: Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures GmbH. The company was launched on 15 September 2017 and develops innovative business models for exchange trading and over-the-counter (OTC) trading in fungible products. Alexander Höptner, Managing Director at Boerse Stuttgart GmbH, explained: ‘The goal is to shift our business activities even more decisively onto retail customers with the help of innovative, digital technologies in order to offer customers significant value.’ The new company will focus particular attention on the Predictive Data Analytics division, which is being set up by a separate team of programmers and products managers. The Managing Director added: ‘Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures also invests in promising startups and enters into partnerships with selected partners to implement its digitisation strategy.’

Al Mawared Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report, 18 September 2017

Date 18/09/2017

Click here to download  Al Mawared's Amman Stock Exchange weekly report.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) Launches 6 New Tel-Bond Maturity Indices -Since The Beginning Of The Year, TASE Has Launched 10 New Indices

Date 18/09/2017

Today, September 17th 2017, TASE launches 6 new Tel-Bond maturity indices. Following the launch of the new indices, TASE will calculate 20 Tel-Bond indices, eight of which, launched this year. In total, TASE has launched 10 new indices since the beginning of the year. 

TheCityUK: May Must Stress Crunch Time For Brexit Transitionals

Date 18/09/2017

As Theresa May prepares for her landmark speech in Florence on the state of the ongoing Brexit negotiations, the UK-based financial and related professional services industry has issued a stark warning about the lack of progress made on agreeing transitional arrangements.

Exchange Invest Launches World’s First Index Measuring The Most Influential Individuals In Exchanges And Market Structure

Date 18/09/2017

Exchange Invest has today launched “The World’s Most Influential People in Market Structure”, the first index of the top 1000 most influential people in financial market infrastructure.