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Keynote Speech By Commissioner Jonathan Hill At The European Commission's Public Hearing On The Retail Finance Green Paper

Date 02/03/2016

Ladies and gentlemen,

It's a great pleasure to be here and to have the chance to talk about financial services from the point of view of consumers. It’s good to see so much interest in this work. Not just because of the real economic benefits that more transparency, competition and choice could bring. But because of the way that we could help make consumers’ lives easier across Europe: when they want to save, to insure against ill-health, or to plan for retirement.

Grupo Pikolin Registers A €50 Million Commercial Paper Programme With MARF - Through This Transaction The Company Diversifies Its Short-Term Funding Sources

Date 02/03/2016

The Mercado Alternativo de Renta Fija (MARF) has registered a Commercial Paper Programme by Grupo Pikolin with a maximum outstanding amount of €50 million, which will allow the company to issue paper over the next 12 months as well as raising short-term funding.

CME Group Achieved Record Average Daily Volume Of 18.7 Million Contracts Per Day In February 2016, Up 18 Percent From February 2015

Date 02/03/2016

• Energy volume averaged a record 2.7 million contracts per day
• Interest rates had second-highest average daily volume month ever, and Treasury futures and options volume averaged a record 5.1 million contracts per day
• Agricultural products and metals each had fourth highest monthly average daily volume ever
• Electronic trading reached record 16.4 million contracts per day
• Open interest established daily record on February 11 of 116 million contracts, and month-end record of 111 million contracts

HKEX Chief Executive Charles Li: Latest Charles Li Direct: Putting The Pieces Together For An Ideal Market

Date 02/03/2016

HKEX Chief Executive Charles Li blogs about different options to strengthen Hong Kong’s regulatory regime, including by developing a new Third Board. He also takes a closer look at Primary Equity Connect, and explains why it might be possible and how it would bring benefits to the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Audacity Capital Selects Beeks Financial Cloud For High Performance Infrastructure Hosting

Date 02/03/2016

Beeks Financial Cloud, a global leader in financial cloud infrastructure with an established track record of providing high performance, low latency solutions, announced today that Audacity Capital, a Dubai‐based proprietary trading firm, has selected Beeks as its connectivity and server hosting solution. Through hosting its infrastructure in Beeks’ cloud solution, Audacity will create a ‘best of both worlds’ structure, with the advantages of a co‐located solution combined with the flexibility and agility of modern cloud computing.

SIX Launches Its New CO:RE Trading Platform – An Advanced System For Repo Transactions

Date 02/03/2016

SIX successfully went live with its new, fully integrated, real-time Repo trading facility – the CO:RE trading platform. This all-new trading facility provides single-point access for over 160 Swiss domestic and international clients to the multi-currency Swiss repo market. The new platform replaces a legacy system with state-of-the-art technology and capabilities. This investment ensures that SIX continues to build upon its expertise in the repo and securities financing business and, as a part of its strategy, further promote the advantages of Switzerland’s financial infrastructure.

PEGAS Trading Volumes In February 2016 - PEGAS Monthly Volumes Exceed 200 TWh For The First Time

Date 02/03/2016

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 228.4 TWh in February 2016, exceeding the 200 TWh threshold for the first time (previous record: 178.2 TWh in January 2016). The increase resulted from volume records on the spot market with 63.9 TWh (previous record: 52.5 TWh in January 2016) and on the futures market with 164.5 TWh (previous record: 125.8 TWh in January 2016).

Green Key Technologies Appoints Paul Christensen As CEO - Former Goldman Sachs Executive And Market Structure Veteran To Lead Award-Winning Voice Workspace Firm To Next Level

Date 02/03/2016

Green Key Technologies, creator of an award-winning voice workspace designed for financial market voice collaboration, announced today the appointment of Paul Christensen, 44, as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. One of the industry's leading experts on global market structure issues, Christensen most recently served as Managing Director and Global Co-head of Goldman Sachs' Principal Strategic Investments team. He has been responsible for conceiving and executing a series of the industry's leading ventures.

Dalian Commodity Exchange: Steel, Iron Ore Prices Record Significant Increases In China

Date 02/03/2016

Since the end of the long holiday of the Spring Festival, the domestic steel market has run in the rising channel for two consecutive weeks, but the sign of retreating has been seen after the surging. The iron ore prices have rose to the record high in four months, but still in a certain range at the low level. The mining giants across the world have successively recorded losses in the iron ore business.

IOSCO Publishes The Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2016

Date 02/03/2016

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published the IOSCO Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2016, which identifies and examines key trends in global financial markets and the potential risks to financial stability.