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London Stock Exchange Group: ELITE Connect Investor Relations Portal Launches In Beta Phase

Date 23/06/2015

• New  social platform bringing public companies, intermediaries and institutional investors together
• Facilitates efficient engagement and investor relations activity between participants
• Beta phase commenced prior to full launch

The Prudential Regulation Authority And The Financial Conduct Authority Announce New Rules On Remuneration

Date 23/06/2015

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have today published new remuneration rules, which include changes to deferral and clawback of variable remuneration (e.g. bonuses).

Contineo Structured Product Platform Goes Live

Date 23/06/2015

Contineo, the industry-backed messaging network for equity-linked structured products, today announced that it had commenced live operations.

Depozitarul Central Migrated To The Pan-European Settlement Platform TARGET2-Securities, A Project Made Live In Cooperation With Bucharest Stock Exchange

Date 23/06/2015

Depozitarul Central migrated to the pan-European settlement platform TARGET2-Securities within the first wave, a project which will facilitate the post-trading operations by offering harmonized, neutral and simplified settlement services in European single currency, for the majority of European financial instruments. 

EDHEC-Risk Institute: Investors In Smart Beta ETFs Satisfied, But…

Date 23/06/2015

In a survey of investment professionals conducted as part of the Amundi ETF & Indexing research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute on “ETF and Passive Investment Strategies,” EDHEC-Risk Institute has solicited the specific views of European ETF investors on “smart beta” exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This questionnaire has given rise to a study entitled “Investor Interest in and Requirements for Smart Beta ETFs.”

McKay Brothers International Launches Lowest Known Latency Microwave Routes From Interxion London

Date 23/06/2015

INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that McKay Brothers International has chosen Interxion’s Central London data centre campus to deploy the lowest known latency connections between the City of London & Slough and the City of London & Frankfurt.

Galaxy Futures Co. Offers High Speed Access To Orc Trading Clients In China

Date 23/06/2015

Orc, the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced a co-operation with Galaxy Futures Co. to provide high performance connectivity to Orc clients for the Chinese markets. Clients of both Orc and Galaxy Futures Co. can now take advantage of the joint offering to trade ETF options on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) via Galaxy Futures Co.’s membership.

Most Kiwis Remain Confident In NZ’s Financial Markets, Survey Shows

Date 23/06/2015

Confidence in New Zealand’s financial markets remains stable, with 60% of New Zealanders feeling confident in the state of the country’s financial markets.

GAITAME.COM Selects smartTrade To Accelerate FX Broker Business

Date 23/06/2015

smartTrade Technologies, a global leader in multi asset, end-to-end trading solutions for Tier1, Tier2, regional Banks, Brokers and Asset Managers, has been selected by Gaitame.com, a leading Japanese online foreign exchange (FX) trading company, to deliver a fully automated and hosted low latency FX connectivity platform.

MNI India Business Sentiment Indicator: Indian Business Sentiment Boosted By June Rate Cut - Depreciation In The Rupee Stimulates Export Orders

Date 23/06/2015

Results of the June business survey provide a tentative sign that the downturn in business sentiment may have bottomed. The MNI India Business Sentiment Indicator, a gauge of current sentiment among BSE-listed companies, rose by 7.7% to 67.1 in June from 62.3 in May.