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Testimony On “Oversight Of The Financial Stability Oversight Council”, SEC Chair Mary Jo White, Before The Committee On Financial Services, United States House Of Representative

Date 08/12/2015

Chairman Hensarling, Ranking Member Waters, and Members of the Committee:

Thank you for inviting me to testify regarding the Financial Stability Oversight Council (Council). Below I highlight my perspective on the Council and my role on it.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) established the Council to provide comprehensive monitoring of the stability of our nation's financial system.

Intercontinental Exchange Announces Expected Closing Date For Acquisition Of Interactive Data Corporation

Date 08/12/2015

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced it has received all required regulatory approvals and now expects to close the acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation (Interactive Data) on or around December 14, 2015.

Bank Of America Merrill Lynch Is Institutional Investor's Top Global Research Firm Of 2015 - Firm Widens Its Lead Over No. 2 J.P. Morgan In Annual Ranking Of Aggregated Survey Results

Date 08/12/2015

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is Institutional Investor's Top Global Research Firm of the Year for a fifth straight year. The bank amassed a total of 242 positions across the 12 research team surveys that II published in 2015.

trueEX Teams With J.P. Morgan And RBS To Introduce - ‘No-touch’ Swaps Trading For Buy-Side

Date 08/12/2015

trueEX, the fastest growing swap execution facility (SEF), along with J.P. Morgan and RBS, today announced the launch of trueFIX, a real-time, automated execution and processing solution for all US dollar, Euro and UK Sterling swaps.

EPEX SPOT: Success Of 15-Minute Contracts Reveals Potential For Further Auctions - Exchange Council Calls For Development Of Demand Response With Power Exchanges As Key Contributor

Date 08/12/2015

At the quarterly meeting of the Exchange Council of the European Power Exchange in Vienna, the success of the 15-minute auction on the German Intraday market was highlighted. Since its introduction in December 2014, volumes have experienced constant growth. In the past months the auction has pooled as much volume as the continuous 15-minute market – on average more than 10 GWh are traded per trading session. The sum of both 15-minute continuous and auction volumes in October 2015 shows a 42% increase in 15-minute contract trading compared to October 2014, while similar amount of energy from solar and wind have been generated during these two months. Moreover, since the auction go-live, the share of 15-minute products traded on the EPEX SPOT intraday markets has been increasing from 18% to 24% of the total Intraday volume. In the light of this success, EPEX SPOT is investigating the interest of the market and analysing the potential additional auctions on its Intraday markets.

OpenFin Open-Sources Market Leading HTML5 Container Technology

Date 08/12/2015

OpenFin, a fast-growing financial technology provider, today announced that for the first time it is open-sourcing its market-leading HTML5 container technology for financial desktops. The development aims to promote further community collaboration as OpenFin is being used by over 20 of the world's leading banks, buy-side firms and trading platforms. OpenFin also announced the formation of an industry advisory board, with member firms including Barclays, Citi, CME Group, ICAP, J.P. Morgan, REDI, RBS, Trading Technologies and Tullett Prebon, to guide the direction of both its open-source and enterprise offerings.

General Atlantic Announces Promotions To Managing Director And Principal

Date 08/12/2015

General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, today announced the promotions of Jörn Nikolay to managing director and Roni Elchahal, Andrew Ferrer, and Rajat Sood to principal. Mr. Nikolay leads the firm's Munich office. Mr. Elchahal is responsible for the firm's EMEA capital partnering effort based in London, and Mr. Ferrer and Mr. Sood are senior investment professionals in the firm's New York and Mumbai offices, respectively. The promotions will be effective as of January 1, 2016.

Nasdaq To Acquire Chi-X Canada - Expands Equity Trading Beyond U.S. And Nordics

Date 08/12/2015

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that it will acquire Chi-X Canada, an Alternative Trading System for Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Securities, from Chi-X Global.  The acquisition will provide Nasdaq with direct access to the Canadian equities market. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016, and be accretive to the company's earnings at closing, excluding transaction-related costs.

BM&FBOVESPA Publishes November Market Performance

Date 08/12/2015

FTSE SET Index Series December Semi-Annual Review

Date 08/12/2015

• One addition and one deletion to FTSE SET Large Cap Index 
• Eight additions to the FTSE SET Mid-Cap Index
• Twenty additions to the FTSE SET Shariah Index