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World Federation Of Exchanges Holds Emerging Market Liquidity Roundtable With Oliver Wyman

Date 03/11/2016

The World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, today held a roundtable to discuss how best to grow liquidity in emerging market exchanges.  

DIFC Celebrates UAE Flag Day 2016

Date 03/11/2016

The dynamic and global DIFC community of over 1,500 firms and 21,000 people, which together make up the region’s leading international financial centre, today came together to mark the UAE Flag Day 2016. The Governor of DIFC, H.E. Essa Kazim, raised the flag at 11am in DIFC at a ceremony on the day that H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became President of the UAE.

EBA Consults On Guidelines On Authorisation And Registration Under PSD2

Date 03/11/2016

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Guidelines specifying the information to be provided by applicants intending to obtain authorisation as payment and electronic money institutions as well as to register as account information service providers under the revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2).These Guidelines are in support of the objective of PSD2 of strengthening an integrated payments market across the European Union, ensuring a consistent application of the legislative framework, and promoting equal conditions for competition. The consultation runs until 3 February 2017.

Irish Stock Exchange Statistics October 2016

Date 03/11/2016

October 2016 overall market statistics report

October 2016 investment funds statistics

EBA Publishes Final Guidelines On ICAAP And ILAAP Information

Date 03/11/2016

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on the collection of information related to the internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP) and the internal liquidity adequacy assessment process (ILAAP). These Guidelines aim at facilitating a consistent approach to the supervisory assessment of ICAAP and ILAAP frameworks across the EU as part of the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP).

Companies Are Sinking In Risk: Thomson Reuters 2016 Global Third Party Risk Survey - Many Companies Are Struggling To Monitor Risks Posed By Their Suppliers, Distributors And Partners Due To Internal Pressures, Lack Of Actionable Data And Insufficient Attention To Potential Consequences

Date 03/11/2016

Global companies are opening themselves up to greater risk including bribery and corruption and modern day slavery by conducting due diligence on just 62 percent of their suppliers, distributors, and third party relationships, with only 36 percent fully monitoring the ongoing risks and 61 percent not even knowing the extent to which third parties are outsourcing their work, a global Thomson Reuters survey has found.

World Federation Of Exchanges Names India’s NSE, Switzerland’s Six Group And US’s CBOE As New Board Officers

Date 03/11/2016

At the 56th General Assembly in Cartagena today, the World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, appointed three new officers of the Board, in line with the organisation’s customary geographical rotation of officers every two years.

London Stock Exchange Group: 44 New Companies Join 700 Strong Elite Community Today

Date 03/11/2016

• 13 new UK companies and 31 from Italy join ELITE today
• ELITE UK CEOs & Margot James MP, Minister for Small Business open London trading
• More than 700 companies, advisors and investors make up growing ELITE community
• ELITE companies generate over £33 billion in combined revenues & account for more than 160,000 jobs

EEX Group: Key Figures Of October 2016

Date 03/11/2016

EEX Group provides the central market platform for energy and commodity products. The offering of the group comprises contracts listed at the European Energy Exchange (EEX), EPEX SPOT, Powernext, Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX), Gaspoint Nordic and Power Exchange Central Europe (PXE) as well as clearing and settlement via European Commodity Clearing (ECC). EEX Group connects a network of about 450 trading participants across 14 locations ensuring optimal support for customers on site.

GPW Takes Over As The WIBID And WIBOR Reference Rates Organiser

Date 03/11/2016

• GPW has decided to replace ACI Polska (The Polish Financial Markets Association) as fixing organiser of the WIBID and WIBOR reference rates
  
• The organiser change takes place in view of entry into force of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council which imposes significant requirements on institutions which calculate benchmarks
  
• The functions will be taken over in several stages including: starting the organisation of fixings, becoming authorised as the organiser, and reviewing the methodology of the rates