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U.S. Treasury Department Issues White Paper On Online Marketplace Lending Industry - “Opportunities And Challenges In Online Marketplace Lending”

Date 10/05/2016

The U.S. Treasury Department today issued a white paper regarding its review of the online marketplace lending industry. The white paper titled, “Opportunities and Challenges in Online Marketplace Lending,” provides an overview of what the Treasury Department heard in response to its Request for Information, and it contains research on and recommendations for the industry. 

CFTC Financial Data For Futures Commission Merchants Update

Date 10/05/2016

Futures commission merchants (FCMs) and retail foreign exchange dealers (RFEDs) must file monthly financial reports with the CFTC's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) within 17 business days after the end of the month. Selected financial information from these reports is published below. The most recent month-end information generally is added within 12 business days after FCMs and RFEDs file their reports, but occasionally may be added later. For example:  The 17th business day filing “due date" for February 28, 2015 financial reports was March 25, 2015.  The 12 business day target for posting these data was April 10, 2015.

Borsa İstanbul VIOP’s Revenue Sharing Based Market Making Program Welcomes Garanti Bank For Its Gold Futures

Date 10/05/2016

Garanti Bank joined Borsa İstanbul VIOP’s revenue sharing based new market making program for Gold futures. Effective from April 1, 2016, Gold and USD/Ounce Gold Futures were included in the New Market Making Program based on revenue sharing to further increase the liquidity of gold contracts. Garanti Bank is the first market maker that will operate under the New Market Making Program in Gold and USD/Ounce Gold Futures.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Expands Its Data And Analytics Platform To Include Flood Re Data - LexisNexis Presents Flood Re Information Alongside A Holistic View Of Existing Exposure And Building-Specific Information Through The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Data Platform

Date 10/05/2016

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a leading provider of data, analytics and technology, has added Flood Re data to its data platform for home insurers and insurance brokers. The addition enables insurers to automatically identify any property that qualifies for Flood Rei at the point-of-quote and understand the cost of ceding to the program. Together with building-specific flood modeling data already provided by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, insurers can make better decisions regarding the price to quote and whether to cede the policy to Flood Re. The solution is being used by several leading insurers and is available for both direct insurance business and broking channels. 

Turkish Ministry Of Science, Industry And Technology Has Approved Borsa İstanbul’s “BISTECH Research & Development Center” Application As Of May 6, 2016.

Date 10/05/2016

According to the Law on Supporting Research and Development Activities numbered 5746; Borsa İstanbul applied to the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Development on March 4, 2016, in order to be registered as a Research & Development (R&D) Center.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Good Delivery Material Price Differential For May 2016 Rubber Contract

Date 10/05/2016

The price differential of the Good Delivery material for the May 2016 contract month in the Rubber market has be determined as follows,

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 2.2 of the Rubber Delivery Detailed Rules, the price differential between the Good Delivery materials RSS No.3 and the non-standard grade RSS No.4 for the May 2016 contract month shall be -3.0 yen/kg.

IPC Launches Industry Leading FX Hub Solution - Enables Alpha Generation, Liquidity Sourcing And Risk Mitigation In The Global FX Markets

Date 10/05/2016

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that it has launched FX Hub, a low latency, co-located performance solution engineered to address the industry's most complex trading challenges. IPC's FX Hub is centered at the heart of the global foreign exchange markets, specifically Equinix's International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in New York (NY4), London (LD4), Tokyo (TY3), and Singapore (SG2) as well as other major FX centers such as Moscow, Chicago, Frankfurt and Zurich; all with access to IPC's vast community of financial market participants and positioned locally with low latency access via IPC's dark fiber rings to key FX liquidity providers and dealers.

ISDA - Cross-Border Fragmentation Of Global Interest Rate Derivatives: Second Half 2015 Update

Date 10/05/2016

The fracturing of the global interest rate swaps market that emerged in the aftermath of US swap execution facility rules coming into force shows no signs of reversing. Although concerns over market fragmentation have been apparent for almost three years, some liquidity pools continue to be split on US and non-US lines.

Brexit Bad For Financial Services Clients Says CISI Survey - CISI Survey Says No To Brexit

Date 10/05/2016

A majority of financial services practitioners have indicated that Brexit would be bad for their clients, according to the latest online survey by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).

Bats Europe Successfully Operates Exchange From Disaster Recovery Facility - Company Executes Critical Infrastructure Test On May 5, 2016

Date 10/05/2016

Bats Europe, Europe’s largest stock exchange, today announced the successful operation of its European business from the exchange’s disaster recovery (DR) office. The test constitutes a critical part of Bats Europe’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) process.