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JSE Successfully Moves To A Shorter Three Day Settlement Cycle - SA Market Aligns With Global Standards

Date 11/07/2016

South Africa’s financial markets took a major step forward today with the successful launch of a shorter three-day settlement cycle, known as T+3. The move follows months of intensive market-wide activity culminating in a change-over to new systems in the days leading up to today’s launch. The South African market is now aligned with international best practice settlement standards.  From this point onwards, equities will be delivered in exchange for payment in four days (T+3 = Trade plus three days) versus the previous six-day (or T+5 = Trade plus five days) settlement cycle, meaning that all trades traded today will settle this Thursday.

Taiwan Futures Exchange Monthly Newsletter- July 2016

Date 11/07/2016

Click here to download TAIFEX Monthly Newsletter for July 2016.

Thomson Reuters Adds EBS To Its Post-Trade Network To Provide FX Industry With Increased Market Efficiency - Network Connections Continue To Rise As Thomson Reuters Looks To Improve Transparency And Straight Through Processing With Open, Agnostic Industry-Wide Network

Date 11/07/2016

Thomson Reuters has added FX platform EBS to its post-trade network as part of its drive to improve market efficiency through provision of a venue-agnostic trade notification service. EBS joins more than 2500 other publishers and receivers on Thomson Reuters Trade Notification (TRTN) which enables EBS to offer complete straight through processing to its clients.

SGX Welcomes Advancer Global To Catalist

Date 11/07/2016

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Advancer Global Limited to Catalist under the stock code “43Q”.  

Finansinspektionen: Managers' Transactions

Date 11/07/2016

Special rules apply for insight into companies listed on a regulated market, and as of July 3, 2016 trading platform (MTF). The objectives are:

• To prevent abuse of insider information
• To provide the market with information about relevant persons' securities transactions

Keynote Remarks At Hedge Fund Standards Board Institutional Investor Roundtable By Mr Ashley Alder, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission, 22 June 2016

Date 11/07/2016

Today I will touch on some of the SFC’s work which may be of interest to the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) community. But before doing that, I would like to recognise the fact that in its short existence, the HFSB has, in my view, broken new ground in the way in which industry associations can operate as standard setters.

Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC Authority) Has Announced For Public Consultation A Proposed New Electronic Transactions Law, DIFC Law No. 2 Of 2016 (“Electronic Transactions Law”)

Date 11/07/2016

DIFC Authority wishes to enact legislation to clarify, for all purposes in the DIFC, that electronic signatures are enforceable, that electronic records have equivalent effect to hard copies and that references to “writing” include electronic means.

NZX Celebrates Milestone In New NZ Milk Price Futures

Date 10/07/2016

NZX celebrated a milestone in the development of its NZ milk price futures contract on Friday, with more than one million kilograms of milk solids (kg/ms) traded since the product launched at the end of May.

The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) Announces The Commencement Of Implementing The Investors Ownership Disclosure Mechanism

Date 10/07/2016

With reference to the announcement by Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) dated 04/07/1437 corresponding to 11/04/2016, and with reference to the follow up announcement dated 28/09/1437 corresponding to 03/07/2016 relating to the Investors Ownership Disclosure Mechanism, The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) announces that it shall commence implementing the previously mentioned mechanism on the first trading day after Eid Al-Fitr Holiday dated 05/10/1437 corresponding to 10/7/2016. 

Palestine Securities Exchange Monthly Investor Newsletter-June 2016

Date 10/07/2016

Click here to download the June 2016 edition of the PEX Monthly Investor Newsletter.