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Nasdaq, Inc. Announces Proposed Senior Notes Offering

Date 02/06/2016

Nasdaq, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it plans to commence a public offering of U.S. dollar-denominated senior notes pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”, and such offering, the “Offering”). The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the Offering, together with cash on hand and/or borrowings under the Company’s senior credit facility, to fund the cash consideration payable by the Company for its acquisition of 100% of the equity interests in U.S. Exchange Holdings, Inc. (the indirect owner of three electronic options exchanges: International Securities Exchange, ISE Gemini and ISE Mercury) (the “ISE Transaction”) and related expenses and for general corporate purposes, which may include, without limitation, the repayment of indebtedness or the funding of other future acquisitions. 

Dutch Authority For The Financial Markets Investigates A Couple Of High Frequency Trading Strategies

Date 02/06/2016

As announced in its activity agenda for 2015, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) conducted an in-depth investigation into the trading strategies of high-frequency traders (HFTs) and their interaction with the trading infrastructure. As part of its investigation, the AFM documented the criticisms levelled at high-frequency trading, and studied two criticised trading strategies. The AFM is publishing the results of this investigation today.

EEX To Launch Non-MTF Power Futures

Date 02/06/2016

As announced in the customer information on 9 February and on 11 April, EEX intends to launch additional trading venues (non-MTFs) for German and French power derivatives in response to on-going MiFID II legislation.

FTSE Russell: Straits Times Index (STI) Quarterly Review

Date 02/06/2016

• No change to the STI constituents

FTSE Russell announces that there will be no changes to the constituents of the Straits Times Index, following the June quarterly review.

Thomson Reuters Enables Financial Services Industry To Manage Big Data Challenges With Intelligent Tagging Offering - Intelligent Tagging Is Designed To Empower Clients To Better Tag, Extract Meaning And Derive Insights Through An Enhanced Unstructured (Text) Data Tagging Solution

Date 02/06/2016

Thomson Reuters Intelligent Tagging clients can now deploy its capabilities behind their secure firewalls, enabling them to manage and potentially extract meaning and value out of massive amounts of data, and possibly more efficiently draw intelligence from them.

Additional ICE U.S. Treasury Bond Indices Selected By Blackrock - Direxion And Yuanta SITC Also Select Indices As Benchmarks For A Range Of U.S. Treasury ETFs

Date 02/06/2016

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges, clearing houses and data services, announced today that the ICE U.S. Treasury Bond indices have been selected as the new benchmarks for a range of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) offered by BlackRock iShares®, Direxion, and Yuanta Securities Investment Trust Company (Yuanta SITC).

Financial Services Industry Cloud Provider Navatar Opens London Office To Serve Private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds, PERE Funds And M&A Advisory Firms In EMEA

Date 02/06/2016

Navatar, the connected growth platform for financial services firms, is proud to announce the expansion of its global footprint with the launch of a new office in London. The Navatar London office will help boost its presence in the EMEA market and complement sister offices in New York and India.

Hong Kong As An Evolving International Financial Centre - The significance Of Regulation - HKSI Luncheon - Speech By Mr Ashley Alder, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission, 2 June 2016

Date 02/06/2016

The last time I spoke at an HKSI lunch was about 18 months ago, which was only a week after the launch of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect.

Since then we have had last year’s turmoil in A-shares, renminbi volatility and some very significant stabilisation measures by the Mainland authorities.

On the back of this, the Hang Seng Index fell by about one-third from its April 2015 high. And after experiencing record levels of market turnover in the first part of last year, there has been a sharp drop to levels which are now very subdued.

Assets Tracking Scientific Beta Indices Reach USD 10.3bn

Date 02/06/2016

ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider venture of EDHEC Risk Institute, today announced that assets tracking its smart beta indices had reached USD 10.3bn.

Millennium Exchange Release 9.1 Oslo Børs – Functional Description, Technical Specifications And Invitation To Information Meetings

Date 02/06/2016

This announcement contains a brief description of new functionality, the release plan for technical specifications and invitations to technical information meetings.