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ESMA Vacancy Notice - Policy Officer - Benchmarks Regulation/Secondary Markets (Deadline: 15/11/2015)

Date 16/10/2015

Deadline: 15 November 2015

Please refer to our vacancy page for the details on this position (REF.: ESMA/2015/VAC24/AD5) and how to apply.

OCC’s Donohue Tells WILD Symposium In Chicago There Is Work To Be Done To Achieve True Gender And Pay Equality In The Workplace

Date 16/10/2015

In remarks on October 15 to the 4th Annual Women in Listed Derivatives (WILD) Symposium In Chicago, OCC Executive Chairman Craig Donohue applauded the work of WILD to empower women and create more visibility and opportunity, but said much more needs to be done. 

Growing Your Business In The Global Economy: Not All Doom And Gloom - Speech By Kristin Forbes, ​Kristin Forbes, External MPC member, Bank Of England, Given At Brighton Summit 2015, Brighton

Date 16/10/2015

Doom and Gloom” seems to pervade any discussion of emerging markets these days.  Ever since China’s stock market gyrations and currency adjustment sparked a swoon in equity markets around the world, newspaper headlines on the global economy have been dominated by pessimism (Figure 1).  Major emerging markets, such as Brazil and Russia, are expected not just to experience slower growth this year – but suffer outright contractions.  Sharp declines in global commodity prices have caused share prices of companies in this sector to plummet.  Global trade (as a share of global GDP) has basically stopped growing over the past 4 years (Figure 2).  At its annual meeting last weekend, the IMF downgraded its global growth forecasts – again.  This is the eighth fall annual meeting in a row that they have had to revise down their forecasts for global growth in the current year.  The global economy is unlikely to grow at anywhere close to the 5.7% rate at which it peaked in 2007.  There seems to be an abundance of bad news to justify doom and gloom about the global economy.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 42, 2015

Date 16/10/2015

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 42, 2015. 

Five Years On: Regulation Of Private Fund Advisers After Dodd-Frank, SEC Chair Mary Jo White, MFA Outlook 2015 Conference, New York, New York, Oct. 16, 2015

Date 16/10/2015

Good morning.  Thank you, Richard [Baker], for that kind introduction.  I am pleased to be here again to continue our dialogue at this important time for private fund advisers.  As I said at this conference two years ago, the Managed Funds Association has been an important and constructive voice representing your industry, and that certainly remains true today.

EBA Publishes Work Programme For 2016

Date 16/10/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its detailed annual work programme for 2016, describing the specific activities and tasks of the Authority for the coming year, as well as a multiannual work programme, highlighting the key strategic areas of work in the coming years (from 2016 to 2018). 

SEC Staff Publishes Private Funds Statistics Report

Date 16/10/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission staff today published a report that provides private fund industry statistics and trends, reflecting aggregated data reported by private fund advisers on Form ADV and Form PF.  Most of the data in the more than 50 separate tables and figures is being made public for the first time. 

NN Investment Partners’ Data Shows Outflows From Emerging Markets Were USD 87 Billion In September

Date 16/10/2015

Total outflows from emerging markets amounted to USD 87 billion in September, which is better than the USD 128 billion recorded in August, but still more than the year-to-date average of USD 78 billion, latest figures from NN Investment Partners shows.

ACER Recommends Amendments To The Gas Network Code On Capacity Allocation Mechanisms

Date 16/10/2015

ACER published yesterday a Recommendation to the European Commission on the amendment to the Network Code on Capacity Allocation Mechanisms in gas transmission systems. The amendments to be adopted mostly relate to Incremental Capacity, but also to other technical details of the code. Find out more here.
 

CME Group Announces The Launch Of S&P 500 Dividend Index Futures - Extending Basis Trade At Index Close (BTIC) Functionality For Three CME Group Equity Index Products

Date 16/10/2015

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of S&P 500 Annual Dividend futures and S&P 500 Quarterly Dividend futures. These new contracts will be available for customer trading as of November 16, 2015, pending certification of contract terms and conditions with the CFTC and completion of all regulatory review periods.