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Cenergy Holdings Begins Trading On Euronext Brussels

Date 21/12/2016

Euronext Brussels today celebrated the first trading of the shares of Cenergy Holdings, a Belgian public limited liability company active in the fields of steel pipes and cables production. Cenergy Holdings SA is born from the cross-border merger by absorption of the Greek listed companies Corinth Pipeworks and Hellenic Cables. Cenergy Holdings is listed on both Euronext Brussels (Compartment C) and the Athens Stock Exchange.

Central Counterparty Qualification Process – European Commission Recognizes The Equivalence Of The Brazilian Regulatory Framework For Clearinghouses Acting As Central Counterparties.

Date 21/12/2016

Pursuant to External Communication 022/2015-DP of December 02, 2015, we hereby inform you that today the European Commission published Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2276 of 15 December 2016 on the equivalence of the regulatory framework for central counterparties in Brazil in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Equivalence Decision).

SET Launches "sSET Index" On January 4, 2017

Date 21/12/2016

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) today announced the launch of the new index named "sSET Index", featuring 102 constituents that represent the price movement of the common stocks that have constant liquidity, apart from constituents in the SET50 Index and SET100 Index. This new index is scheduled to launch on January 4, 2017, for the calculation in the first half of 2017, and the index review takes place every six months. The "sSET Index" aims to be used as a benchmark for investment decision and can also be used as underlying index of financial products to be offered.

TOCOM International Customer Trades For November 2016 Marks New High Ratio At 52.9%

Date 21/12/2016

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc announced today that the November 2016 monthly volume of customer trades (combined sell & buy sides) originating overseas was 2,599,757 contracts, accounting for 52.9 percent of the total trades of 4,914,030 contracts. This is a new all-time high ratio of international customer trades at TOCOM renewing the record marked in June 2016 at 52.1 percent with volume of 2,677,075 contracts.

Vienna Stock Exchange 2016: ATX Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Returns Of 13.7% - Booming Corporate Bonds

Date 21/12/2016

• All-time high in number of executed orders
• Corporate bonds break record in number and total volume
• 25 years ATX: 2016 brought investors returns of 10.45% YTD (13.71% including dividends)
• Vienna Stock Exchange to set up IT reporting service in conformity with MiFID II: Approved Publication Arrangement (APA)

FSB Completes Peer Review Of Japan

Date 21/12/2016

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today its peer review of Japan.

CESC Index Report For November 2016

Date 21/12/2016

Highlights

• Mainland A shares outperformed Hong Kong stocks in November. The CES A80 surged 7.4 per cent.
• The CES 300 surged 3.7 per cent ahead of the launch of Shenzhen Connect in December.
• The CES G10, on which futures have been trading at HKEX, surged 20.3 per cent, demonstrating Macau’s economic recovery.
• Shenzhen Connect started on 5 December. Southbound trading under the scheme covers 417 eligible Hong Kong stocks, including 388 constituents of Hang Seng Composite LargeCap, MidCap and SmallCap Indices and 29 A+H share companies. Northbound trading covers 881 eligible Shenzhen stocks, including 267 Main Board, 411 SME Board and 203 ChiNext stocks.
• The index universe for CES 300 changed and the weighting of ChiNext stocks increased following the latest periodic review.
• RMB deposits in Hong Kong at the end of October decreased to RMB662.5 billion, down 0.4 per cent from the previous month.
• Open interest in offshore Mainland A-share index futures traded in Singapore hit an all-time high of RMB49.6 billion. Market demand for hedging against A shares continued to increase.

Advise Technologies Releases Bank Of Israel Derivatives Reporting Module

Date 21/12/2016

Advise Technologies, an industry leading provider of regulatory reporting software, is pleased to announce the addition of the Bank of Israel Derivatives Reporting module to the growing regulatory reporting capacity of the Consensus RMS platform.

ASIC Reports On ASX Equity Market Outage In September 2016

Date 21/12/2016

ASIC has released a report on the findings of its review of the ASX outage that affected the operation of the Australian equity market on 19 September 2016. It provides a whole-of-market perspective, with observations on how ASX and other important stakeholders responded on the day.

Securities Commission Malaysia Revokes Licence Of Yap Yeng Chong

Date 21/12/2016

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has revoked the Capital Markets Services Representative’s Licence (CMSRL) of Yap Yeng Chong (Yap) for the regulated activity of dealing in securities under section 72 read together with section 65 of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 (CMSA), effective 22 August 2016.