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SGX Reports Market Statistics For October 2015

Date 05/11/2015

Securities

• Total securities market turnover value grew 3% month on month and 6% year on year to $23.1 billion, during 22 trading days compared to 21 in October 2014.
• Securities daily average value (SDAV) fell 7% month on month and increased 1% year on year to $1.0 billion. 
• Market turnover value of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) was $270 million, up 19% month on month and 30% year on year.
• There were 22 new bond listings, raising $13 billion.
• Total market capitalisation value of 769 listed companies stood at $930.6 billion as at end October 2015.

ESMA Consults On Indirect Clearing Arrangements

Date 05/11/2015

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened today a public consultation on draft requirements regarding indirect clearing. Indirect clearing is in practice understood as when clients of a clearing member sign up clients of their own. 

Nasdaq To Power New Mexican Stock Exchange BIVA - Bolsa Institucional De Valores (BIVA) To Leverage Nasdaq's X-Stream Trading And SMARTS Surveillance Technology

Date 05/11/2015

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Bolsa Institucional de Valores (BIVA), announced today that BIVA will implement Nasdaq's X-stream Trading technology to run Latin America's newest exchange. X-stream is the most widely used exchange trading technology in the world, powering more than 30 marketplaces globally. In addition, BIVA will also operate SMARTS for surveillance efforts to increase transparency and maintain market integrity.

Internal Investigations By Firms - Speech By Jamie Symington, Director In Enforcement (Wholesale, Unauthorised Business And Intelligence), FCA, Delivered At The Pinsent Masons Regulatory Conference 2015 On 5 November 2015

Date 05/11/2015

It's a pleasure to join you today.

I want to talk to you today about a subject which may on the face of it seem quite narrow. But I believe it to be of sufficient importance and wide application to anyone whose business is potentially touched by regulatory or law enforcement investigations to deserve a some focus.

FTSE Russell Introduces Low Beta Equal Weight Index Series

Date 05/11/2015

• Expands Equal Weight Index Series to reflect performance of low beta securities
• Responds to investor demand for more efficient ways to combine factor exposure
• Invesco PowerShares to use as the basis for two new ETFs

Winners Announced Of Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards 2015 – Canada

Date 05/11/2015

Thomson Reuters today announced the winners of the Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards 2015 for Canada. The Lipper Fund Awards are part of the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence, a global family of awards that celebrate exceptional performance throughout the professional investment community.

ACER Invites Stakeholders To Provide Input For The Agency’s 2017 Work Programme

Date 05/11/2015

Alberto Pototschnig, Director of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, presented today the draft outline of the Agency’s 2017 Work Programme at a public workshop held in Ljubljana. In line with legal requirements, the Agency’s 2017 Work Programme is to be drafted earlier than work programmes in previous years.

From Our Man At The 31st Annual FIA Futures & Options Expo - Tom Groenfeldt: CFTC Seeks To Regulate Without Stifling Innovation

Date 05/11/2015

Timothy Massad, chairman of the CFTC, was asked yesterday at the FIA Expo what the biggest macro challenge was for the regulator.

From Our Man At The 31st Annual FIA Futures & Options Expo - Tom Groenfeldt: FIA Pursues Innovation With Some Doubters

Date 05/11/2015

The Futures Industry Association made innovation the theme for this week’s annual conference in Chicago and for the first time had an innovation pavilion with early stage technology companies offering solutions that could help the industry.

Charles Li, Chief Executive Of HKEx: Charles Li Direct: Video Blog - Stock Connect: The Bigger Picture

Date 05/11/2015

HKEx has published three videos of Charles Li discussing the anniversary of Stock Connect and what it means for HKEx’s future.