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Introductory Statement To The Press Conference - Mario Draghi, President Of The ECB, Nicosia, 5 March 2015

Date 05/03/2015

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference, here, in Nicosia. I would like to thank Governor Georghadji for her kind hospitality and to express our special gratitude to her staff for the excellent organisation of today’s meeting of the Governing Council.

EBA Acknowledges Notification From Austrian Financial Market Authority

Date 05/03/2015

The EBA acknowledges notification from the Austrian Financial Market Authority (Finanzmarktaufsicht, FMA) with respect to its decision on Heta Asset Resolution AG.

ECB - Monetary Policy Decisions

Date 05/03/2015

At today’s meeting, which was held in Nicosia, the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.05%, 0.30% and -0.20% respectively.

Trading Technologies Enters Into Agreement With Fundamental Analytics To Provide New Data Analysis And Visualization Services To TT Customers - Access To Fundamental Analytics Will Be Offered To All X_TRADER® And Next-Gen TT Platform Users At No Additional Cost

Date 05/03/2015

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of market-leading connectivity and trading solutions for the financial community, and Fundamental Analytics, a leading provider of charting and analytics software for energy and agricultural markets, today announced they have partnered to offer Fundamental Analytics to Trading Technologies’ customers for no additional charge. Additionally, the two companies are working together to expand the Fundamental Analytics service to include coverage of fixed income markets.

Moscow Exchange: Delivery Prices For Russian Government Bond Futures With Expiry On 5th March 2015

Date 05/03/2015

Delivery prices for Russian Government Bond Futures with expiry on 5th March 2015 are determined. 

SFO Investigation Into Liquidity Auctions Held By The Bank Of England: Kinetic Partners Comment

Date 05/03/2015

Simon Appleton, Director of Regulatory Consulting  at Kinetic Partners, a division of Duff & Phelps comments on the news that The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating liquidity auctions held by the Bank of England during the financial crisis:

“The integrity of all markets -equities, credit, interest rates, commodities and FX - is of paramount importance to the restoration of confidence in the UK financial system. This investigation, as well as the ever increasing transparency of these markets through the introduction of tighter regulation (EMIR, MiFIR and MAR), should, over time, go a long way to restoring that confidence."

ESMA And RBA Conclude MoU On Access To Data Held In Trade Repositories

Date 05/03/2015

he European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)that will allow RBA to have access to data held in European Trade repositories according to its mandate.

BME: AIAF Admits To Trading An Issue By Canal De Isabel II For 500 Million Euros - It Combines English And Spanish Legislation

Date 05/03/2015

AIAF, BME’s Corporate Debt Market, has admitted to trading a new unsecured bond issue by Canal de Isabel II, to the value of 500 million euros, which combines English and Spanish Laws.

Palestine Securities Exchange Monthly Investor Newsletter- February 2015

Date 05/03/2015

Please click  here to download Palestine Securities Exchange's monthly investor newsletter for February 2015.

Bank Of England Maintains Bank Rate At 0.5% And The Size Of The Asset Purchase Programme At £375 Billion

Date 05/03/2015

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £375 billion.