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Change In The Composition Of The ATHEX Indices

Date 11/12/2015

The following change of investability weight of shares will take place:

• «PIRAEUS BANK S.A.» to 74% in the composition of all ATHEX Indices that the shares of the company participate.

Dissenting Statement At Open Meeting On Resource Extraction, SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar, Dec. 11, 2015

Date 11/12/2015

Thank you, Chair White.

Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity
to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment
would you capture it, or just let it slip?

EBA Consults On Draft Guidelines On ICAAP And ILAAP Information Collected For SREP Purposes

Date 11/12/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Guidelines on the collection of information related to the internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP) and the internal liquidity adequacy assessment process (ILAAP). These draft Guidelines aim at facilitating the consistent approach to the supervisory assessment of ICAAP and ILAAP frameworks as well as the assessment of reliability of institutions' own capital and liquidity estimates as part of the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP)  following the criteria and methodologies specified in the EBA Guidelines on common procedures and methodologies for SREP. The public consultation runs until 11 March 2016. 

Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For 11 December 2015

Date 11/12/2015

A turnover of 1.174 billion shares worth N13.846 billion in 13,870 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 1.218 billion shares valued at N14.685 billion that exchanged hands last week in 13,495 deals.

Protecting Investors Through Proactive Regulation Of Derivatives And Robust Fund Governance, SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, Dec. 11, 2015

Date 11/12/2015

Today, the Commission considers new rules that are designed to protect investors by addressing the use of derivatives by registered investment companies.[1] As demonstrated by the 2008 financial crisis, and the economic turmoil that followed, years of regulatory complacency and deregulation enabled an unregulated derivatives marketplace to cause significant losses to investors.[2] In response to that crisis, in 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to address the causes of the financial crisis, and specifically included provisions in Title VII of the Act mandating the establishment of a regulatory framework for addressing broad categories of derivatives.[3] This process is still ongoing.

EBRD Acquires 10 Per Cent Stake In Borsa İstanbul

Date 11/12/2015

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Borsa İstanbul have agreed today to the acquisition by the EBRD of a 10 per cent shareholding in the stock exchange, in the presence of Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 50, 2015

Date 11/12/2015

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 50, 2015. 

EBA Consults On Cooperation And Exchange Of Information For Passporting Under PSD2

Date 11/12/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft technical standards on the framework for cooperation and exchange of information between competent authorities for passporting under Article 28(5) of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The technical standards will ensure that information about those payment institutions that carry out business in one or more EU Member States is exchanged consistently between the national authorities of the home and host Member States. The consultation runs until 11 March 2016.

Intercontinental Exchange Completes Acquisition Of Trayport

Date 11/12/2015

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Trayport from BGC Partners and GFI for approximately $650 million, comprising approximately 2.5 million ICE common shares. The transaction was announced on November 16, 2015, and will help ICE provide new services to the European over-the-counter (OTC) energy markets.

Xior Lists On Euronext Brussels - Student Housing Specialist Raises € 88 Million, Reaching An Initial Market Capitalisation Of € 116 Million

Date 11/12/2015

EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for smaller and mid-sized enterprises, today welcomed Xior Student Housing (ticker code: XIOR) on Euronext Brussels. With an issue price set at € 25, the Belgian real estate company raised € 88 million in new capital, reaching a total market capitalisation of € 116 million. The offer was 2.1x oversubscribed, with a strong demand from both Belgian retail investors and institutional investors in Belgium, Continental Europe and the United Kingdom.