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TheCityUK Responds To Lord Hill’s Capital Markets Union Green Paper

Date 18/02/2015

Responding to Lord Hill’s Building a Capital Markets Union Green paper, Chris Cummings, Chief Executive at TheCityUK, commented:

“This green paper represents a significant step forward in the drive to create a Europe where essential finance needed to drive growth can flow more freely. In the UK and across Europe more and better paid jobs are needed, and these can only come from firms investing in their businesses.

European Commission - Fact Sheet: Q & A On The Green Paper On Building A Capital Markets Union

Date 18/02/2015

General Questions

What does the term 'Capital Markets Union' mean?

The free movement of capital is a long-standing objective of the European Union – a fundamental freedom which should be at the heart of the single market. Despite the progress that has been made, Europe's capital markets remain fragmented along national lines and European economies remain heavily reliant on banks for their funding needs. This makes them more vulnerable in bad times to a tightening of bank lending, as happened during the financial crisis.

Alacra-On-Demand Now Available

Date 18/02/2015

Alacra, Inc., a leading provider of business information solutions for financial institutions, corporations and professional service firms announced the launch of Alacra-On-Demand, a comprehensive research service provided by Alacra’s global team of business information specialists. Alacra-On-Demand provides research and delivery of data and reports from hundreds of global business information publishers.  Requests to the Alacra research team can be made by phone or email and payment can be made by credit card. The service will operate 24 hours a day 5 days week from Sunday morning in Asia to Friday evening in the US.

OANDA Bolsters Trading API Offering - Global Forex Broker Adds New Tools To Build Software Off Its Award-Winning Trading Platform

Date 18/02/2015

OANDA, a global provider of innovative forex and contracts for difference (CFD) tradingservices is pleased to announce significant enhancements to its Application Programming Interface (API) suite for retail forex traders, developers, and partners. New additions include the re-launch of the OANDA API Developer Portal with added reference implementation, including a fully functional sample trading app, additional code samples, new APIs for the broker's proprietary fxLabs tools, an OANDA-MetaTrader 4 (MT4) API, and several new partner integrations.

Unlocking Funding For Europe's Growth - European Commission Consults On Capital Markets Union

Date 18/02/2015

The European Commission today launched its landmark project to unlock funding for Europe’s businesses and to boost growth in the EU’s 28 Member States with the creation of a true single market for capital.

Etihad Airways Selects Fundtech For Payments Gateway - Deploying Fundtech As A Payments Gateway Will Provide UAE Airline With Reduced Risk, Increased Efficiency

Date 18/02/2015

Fundtech, a market leader in global transaction banking solutions, today announced that Etihad Airways has selected Fundtech to provide it with a payments gateway that will enable connectivity to the SWIFT financial messaging network. Key to Etihad will be the ability to reduce risk and increase the efficiency of sending and receiving payment/financial messages in order to continue to expand its business.

BGC Urges All GFI Stockholders To Tender Their Shares Into Its $6.10 Per Share Offer Before It Expires - BGC Reminds GFI Stockholders Of The February 19 Expiration Date

Date 18/02/2015

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "the Company," or "BGC"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today urged GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG) ("GFI Group" or "GFI") stockholders to tender into its $6.10 per share offer to purchase all outstanding shares of GFI before its expiration on February 19, 2015.

Unlocking Funding For Europe's Growth - Jonathan HILL - EU Commissioner For Financial Stability, Financial Services And Capital Markets Union

Date 18/02/2015

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,

I am delighted to be with you in this press room today to present one of the key initiatives of this Commission.

BME Expands Its Post-Trade And Depository Services - BME Securities Solutions Is Launched

Date 18/02/2015

BME has launched BME Securities Solutions, a set of post-trade, clearing and depository services for financial institutions.

Tokyo Stock Exchange: 2 New ETNs To Be Listed On Mar. 16, 2015 (Mon.) - Nomura Group, "NEXT NOTES" Series (Sixth Installment)

Date 18/02/2015

Today, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) approved the listing of the following trust beneficiary certificates (Japanese Depositary Receipts) whose trust assets are exchange traded notes (indicator-tracking securities) issued by Nomura Europe Finance N.V. (※). These will be listed on Monday, March 16, 2015.
※A wholly subsidiary (Netherlands-registered) of Nomura Holdings, Inc.