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ASX Selects Digital Asset To Develop Distributed Ledger Technology Solutions

Date 22/01/2016

Distributed Ledger Technology may be able to significantly simplify and speed-up post-trade processing. For ASX clients this could remove risk and reduce back-office administration and compliance costs, while investors could experience significantly faster settlement of equity transactions – potentially in near real-time.

MNI China Business Sentiment Survey: Chinese Business Sentiment Edges Down In January - Firms Welcome Yuan Devaluation

Date 22/01/2016

Following a pickup in conditions towards the end of 2015, business sentiment among China’s largest companies pulled back marginally at the beginning of 2016, according to the latest MNI China Business Sentiment Survey.

Announcement Of Office Relocation Of Tokyo Financial Exchange

Date 22/01/2016

We are pleased to announce the relocation of our office on February 29th, 2016. 
Please refer to the information below for details. 

CFTC Launches Whistleblower Program’s Website - New Website Improves Public Interface And Allows Users To Submit Tips And Apply For Monetary Awards

Date 21/01/2016

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today launched the CFTC Whistleblower Program’s new website, www.whistleblower.gov. The new website provides an improved interface that educates the public about the Whistleblower Program and allows users to submit tips about potential violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and apply for monetary awards.

Euclid Opportunities invests In Digital Asset Holdings - Strategic Investment Made Through ICAP’s Early Stage Fintech Funding Business

Date 21/01/2016

ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announced today that it has invested in Digital Asset Holdings LLC, a developer of Distributed Ledger Technology for the financial services industry. The investment was made through Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage fintech investment business, and forms part of a funding round that exceeds $50 million from a broad range of leading financial and market infrastructure participants. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

FERC Proposes To Revise Offer Caps In Regional Wholesale Electric Markets

Date 21/01/2016

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today took another step to ensure that price formation in competitive wholesale electricity markets produces just and reasonable rates with a proposal to revise the $1,000 per megawatt-hour (MWh) cap on supply offered in day-ahead and real-time markets run by regional transmission organizations and independent system operators.

Canadian Securities Regulators Seek Comment On Rules Protecting Customer Collateral For Cleared Derivatives

Date 21/01/2016

Members of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published for comment Proposed National Instrument 94-102 Derivatives: Customer Clearing and Protection of Customer Positions and Collateral and its companion policy (the proposed instrument) for a 90-day comment period. The proposed instrument sets out requirements for the treatment of customer collateral, record-keeping and disclosure for clearing intermediaries and regulated clearing agencies providing clearing services for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.

ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Market Analysis: 67% Of Notional Cleared - Compression Reduces Market Size By 62%

Date 21/01/2016

Clearing and portfolio compression are having an increasingly significant effect on the interest rate derivatives (IRD) market, with more than two-thirds of IRD notional outstanding now cleared and compression reducing the size of the market by approximately 62%, according to new research published today by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA). 

CalPERS CEO Anne Stausboll To Retire At Fiscal Year-End After More Than 7 Years

Date 21/01/2016

Anne Stausboll, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), today announced she will retire as the head of the nation's largest public pension fund on June 30, 2016.

Q4 2015: SIX Swiss Exchange Bonds Quarterly Statistics

Date 21/01/2016