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Tradeweb Government Bond DataSheet - April 2016

Date 03/05/2016

Click here to download the April edition of Tradeweb’s monthly DataSheet for global government 10-year benchmark bonds.

EEX New Participant: Vitol S.A.

Date 03/05/2016

Vitol S.A. has been additionally admitted to exchange trading for Freight Financial Options.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Market Attributes: Correlation & Dispersion Index Dashboard

Date 03/05/2016

Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group Appoints Three External Advisers And Announces New Membership Numbers

Date 03/05/2016

• 37 financial institutions involved in the post-trade industry are now members of PTDL Group
• The Group’s organising committee will be made up of representatives from six organisations

ACER Workshop On Scenarios And Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology Will Be Available Via Web-Stream

Date 03/05/2016

The ACER workshop designed to facilitate the future development of the pan-European Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) methodology for electricity infrastructure projects with cross-border influence in Europe, due to take place on 10 May in Ljubljana, will also be web-streamed. The link, together with the draft agenda and other updates, is available here.

Congratulations To Fidessa Fragulator On Surpassing One Million Mark

Date 03/05/2016

The Fidessa Fragulator has surpassed the one million mark.

This free tool provides an unbiased measure of how different stocks are fragmenting across primary markets and alternative venues. Using the Fidessa Fragulator it’s possible to query several billion trade records to get a complete picture of how trading in a given stock is broken down across lit venues, dark pools, systematic internalisers and bilateral OTC trades.

ESMA Publishes Responses To The DP On Draft RTS And ITS Under SFTR

Date 03/05/2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the responses received to the Discussion Paper on draft RTS and ITS under the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR).

Broadridge Launches Next Generation Global Post Trade Management Solution Enabling Banks To Gain Transformative Operational Advantages - Solution Leverages New Technology And Componentized Architecture To Position Global Banks For Growth

Date 03/05/2016

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) today announced the introduction of its Global Post Trade Management (GPTM) solution, a next generation offering that allows investment banks and broker-dealers to transform their operating models to gain operational and cost efficiency. The solution enables transformation by streamlining operations across asset classes, markets and business entities globally, and enhances banks’ and brokers’ financial and risk management and regulatory compliance capabilities.

The Spanish Stock Exchange Traded €78 Billion In April, Up 24.5% From March

Date 03/05/2016

• The equity trading volume to the end of April totaled €275.4 billion
• To April the ETFs trading volume reached €2.7 billion
• The traded volume in Derivatives in April was up 1.4% year-on-year
• The volume of new issues on MARF totaled €702 million to April, more than 7 times as high as last year

FINRA Sanctions Metlife Securities, Inc. $25 Million For Negligent Misrepresentations And Omissions In Connection With Variable Annuity Replacements - Largest FINRA Fine Relating To Variable Annuities

Date 03/05/2016

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined MetLife Securities, Inc. (MSI) $20 million and ordered it to pay $5 million to customers for making negligent material misrepresentations and omissions on variable annuity (VA) replacement applications for tens of thousands of customers. Each misrepresentation and omission made the replacement appear more beneficial to the customer, even though the recommended VAs were typically more expensive than customers' existing VAs. MSI's VA replacement business constituted a substantial portion of its business, generating at least $152 million in gross dealer commission for the firm over a six-year period.