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Thomson Reuters To Bring Eikon Messenger To Mobile Devices, Increasing Flexibility For Financial Professionals

Date 18/11/2015

Recognizing that financial markets participants require greater flexibility in working practices, Thomson Reuters today announced that its Eikon Messenger service would be made available across all major mobile device types, providing its growing community of users with greater agility to connect and transact business with counterparties over an open messaging system.

Eurex: GMEX’s CMF Granted CFTC Approval - U.S. Based Firms Enabled To Trade The IRS Constant Maturity Future With Immediate Effect

Date 18/11/2015

Global Markets Exchange Group Limited (GMEX Exchange) today announced approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer its Interest Rate Swap Constant Maturity Futures (IRS CMF) to U.S.-based firms by directly accessing GMEX Exchange. Trade confirmation and clearing of the GMEX IRS CMF takes place at Eurex, the derivatives marketplace of Deutsche Börse. Transactions will be processed via the Eurex Trade Entry Service, which has been made available to U.S. based exchange participants recently.

HKEx To Introduce New Stock Option Classes And Stock Futures Contracts

Date 18/11/2015

Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce two new stock option classes and 34 new stock futures contracts in batches on Monday, 30 November 2015 and Monday, 7 December 2015.

FSB Publishes Standards And Processes For Global Securities Financing Data Collection And Aggregation

Date 18/11/2015

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today its report Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation.

Successful Market Launch Of CEINEX - Launch Ceremony With Chinese Ambassador And The CEOs Of SSE And Deutsche Börse

Date 18/11/2015

China Europe International Exchange (CEINEX), the joint venture of Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Deutsche Börse and China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) was successfully launched today in Frankfurt. First trades have already taken place in the first hours of market operations.

JWG’s RegDelta Helps G-14 Bank Win 2015 FinTech Award - Regulatory Change Platform Recognised For Excellence

Date 18/11/2015

JWG, trusted by the global financial services industry as experts in regulatory change management, gathered with leading figures to celebrate with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) after they won a prestigious ‘best use of IT for the purposes of risk/ regulatory management’ award.

HKEx Announces Group Structure Changes in Preparation Of New Strategic Plan

Date 18/11/2015

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced today (Wednesday) changes to its Group structure as it prepares to launch and implement its strategic plan for 2016 to 2018, which will be announced in early next year.

ICE Futures Singapore Launches With Commodity And FX Contracts Serving Asian Markets

Date 18/11/2015

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced the successful launch of trading and clearing for ICE Futures Singaporeand ICE Clear Singapore on Tuesday, November 17, 2015.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Terms Of Reference For Asset Management Market Study

Date 18/11/2015

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out the areas it will focus on in its market study into competition in the asset management industry. Over the next year the FCA will assess:

• how asset managers compete to deliver value;
• whether asset managers are motivated and able to control costs along the value chain; and,
• what effect investment consultants have on competition for institutional asset management.

Leading Online Securities Company In Japan Adopts Broadridge's Post-Trade Technology To Support Expanding International Business

Date 18/11/2015

SBI Securities Co., Ltd., one of Japan's largest online securities companies, has selected Broadridge Financial Solutions' (NYSE: BR) post-trade technology solution.  Broadridge will support all core transaction processing of fixed income securities for SBI Securities as it expands its newest branch in Hong Kong to facilitate the issuance of structured notes to its clients.