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ESMA Chair And ED Give Statements To ECON On Leading ESMA For A Further 5 Years

Date 17/11/2015

Steven Maijoor and Verena Ross, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Chair and Executive Director respectively, have delivered statements to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) at the European Parliament today on why they wish to continue to lead ESMA, outlining ESMA’s future strategy. 

IEX Responds To Critics Of Its Plans To Counter High-Speed Trading

Date 17/11/2015

A proposal to create the first new American stock exchange in five years has sparked a fierce debate over how to solve problems created by increasingly complex and high-speed stock markets, on whether exchanges favor high-frequency traders that use computer algorithms to trade at warp speed.

DFM: Resumption Of Trading On Dubai Development Company Shares As Of Thursday 19 November 2015

Date 17/11/2015

Based on the approval of the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), Dubai Financial Market (DFM) would like to notify its valued investors that trading on the shares of Dubai Development Company “PJSC” will be resumed as of Thursday, November 19, 2015 trading session. This step follows the completion of an acquisition process that enabled a group of investors represented by Al Ramz Capital “LLC”, to acquire 8,242,025 shares (about 82.4% of the total capital) of the Dubai Development Company of AED 10 million divided into 10 million shares.

Moscow Exchange: Polyus Gold International Ltd Ords (PGIL) Exclusion From Eligible Collateral

Date 17/11/2015

Due to exclusion from Moscow Exchange Indices Polyus Gold International Ltd ordinary shares (PGIL) will be not accepted as collateral starting from November 19, 2015.

Thai Bourse Market Report For October

Date 17/11/2015

• Average daily securities trading value increased 9.52 pct m-o-m to THB 43.21 billion
• Derivatives average daily trading dropped 26.5 pct m-o-m to 167,999 contracts per day

Deutsche Börse: Amundi MSCI Europe Buyback UCITS ETF Launched On Xetra - Focus On European Companies With Stock Buyback Programmes

Date 17/11/2015

A new equity index exchange-traded fund (ETF), issued by Amundi, is open for trading on Xetra and the Börse Frankfurt venue.

FCA Fines And Bans Former Investment Analyst At Aviva Investors

Date 17/11/2015

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined Mothahir Miah, a former Investment Analyst at Aviva Investors Global Services Limited (Aviva Investors), £139,000 and banned him from performing any function in relation to any regulated activity in the financial services industry for failing to act with honesty and integrity.

Notice Of Modifying Article 38 Of “Shanghai Stock Exchange Detailed Rules For Implementation Of Margin Trading And Securities Lending (Revised In 2015)”

Date 17/11/2015

Upon approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has modified Article 38 of the “SSE Detailed Rules for Implementation of Margin Trading and Securities Lending (Revised in 2015)”, in a bid to further strengthen the risk management of margin trading and securities lending business and propel the business’s long-term and steady growth.

Deutsche Börse: World's First Indian Fixed Income ETF Launched On Xetra - Deutsche Börse Welcomes Zyfin As New ETF Issuer

Date 17/11/2015

The world's first Indian fixed income ETF has been listed on Xetra and the Börse Frankfurt venue on Tuesday. The LAM Sun Global ZyFin India Sovereign Enterprise Bond ETF (ISIN IE00BYZ5HD97), jointly issued by ZyFin Holdings Pte. Limited and Sun Global Investments Limited, tracks the performance of the ZyFin India Sovereign Owned Enterprise Bond Index. It also is Europe’s first physically replicating ETF to track the Indian bond market.

BT Links Up With Volante Technologies To Streamline Processing Of High-Value Transactions - New Financial Message, Payments Integration And Processing Software Available Over The BT Radianz Cloud To Help Financial Markets Firms Boost Efficiency And Reduce Risk

Date 17/11/2015

BT today announced that it has teamed up with Volante Technologies — a leading provider of  financial data integration and processing software  — to offer convenient access to Volante’s full suite of tools and applications via the BT Radianz Cloud, the world’s largest secure networked financial service community.  The move will help BT’s global financial markets customers improve the reliability of their clearing, settlement and payment transactions processing, as well as reducing cost and increasing productivity.