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MIAX Options Exchange: Trading Of Complex Orders On MIAX

Date 14/10/2016

MIAX has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to trade complex orders, see SR-MIAX-2016-26. Complex orders will begin trading at MIAX on October 24, 2016, beginning with options overlying the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM).

Melissa Hodgman Named Associate Director In SEC Enforcement Division

Date 14/10/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Melissa Hodgman has been named Associate Director in the SEC’s Enforcement Division.  Ms. Hodgman succeeds Stephen L. Cohen, who left the SEC in June.

Results Of The September 2016 Survey On Credit Terms And Conditions In Euro-Denominated Securities Financing And Over-The-Counter Derivatives Markets (SESFOD)

Date 14/10/2016

• Little change reported on the liquidity and functioning of markets
• Less favourable credit terms offered to hedge funds and banks
• Less favourable credit terms for non-centrally cleared interest rate derivatives

Euronext Rapeseed Futures Contract Hits New Record

Date 14/10/2016

With the November 2016 expiry approaching, Euronext rapeseed futures contract hit a new daily record volume with 21,369 lots traded on 13 October.

Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report - Week Ending 14 October 2016

Date 14/10/2016

A turnover of 1.163 billion shares worth N9.251 billion in 14,992 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 934.905 million shares valued at N6.357 billion that exchanged hands last week in 12,352 deals.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen, At "The Elusive 'Great' Recovery: Causes And Implications For Future Business Cycle Dynamics" 60th Annual Economic Conference Sponsored By The Federal Reserve Bank Of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, October 14, 2016, Macroeconomic Research After The Crisis

Date 14/10/2016

Watch live: https://www.bostonfed.org/live 

Extreme economic events have often challenged existing views of how the economy works and exposed shortcomings in the collective knowledge of economists. To give two well-known examples, both the Great Depression and the stagflation of the 1970s motivated new ways of thinking about economic phenomena. More recently, the financial crisis and its aftermath might well prove to be a similar sort of turning point. Today I would like to reflect on some ways in which the events of the past few years have revealed limits in economists' understanding of the economy and suggest several important questions I hope the profession will try to answer. Some of these questions are not new, though recent events have made them more urgent. Appropriately, some are addressed by the papers prepared for this conference. Pursuing answers to these questions is vital to the work of Federal Reserve and other economic policymakers, and the Fed is likewise engaged in ongoing research to seek answers.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 41, 2016

Date 14/10/2016

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 41, 2016.

Italian Startups Meet Borsa İstanbul Private Market - Italia’s Innovative Startups Meet Turkish Investors At Borsa İstanbul

Date 14/10/2016

ITALIAN TRADE AGENCY (ITA) and BORSA İSTANBUL PRIVATE MARKET invited seven  innovative startups from Italy to meet Turkish investors at Borsa İstanbul on Thursday, October 13, 2016. Each startup executive made a seven-minute pitch, followed by a four-minute Q&A session. After the pitching sessions, startup executives started investment negotiations at the coffee break.

Singapore Hosts First EU – Asia-Pacific Forum On Financial Regulation

Date 14/10/2016

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) hosted regulators from the European Union (EU) and the Asia-Pacific Region at the inaugural EU-Asia-Pacific Forum on Financial Regulation (Forum) today.

Borsa İstanbul Money Market Directive Has Been Published

Date 14/10/2016

In line with the purpose of encouraging institutional investors in the capital markets as part of the Turkish Government Action Plan and in order to ensure the development of organized money markets, it was decided to establish “Borsa İstanbul Money Market” for secured funding.