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ESMA Welcomes Launch Of The Capital Markets Union Process

Date 18/02/2015

Welcoming the launch of the Capital Markets Union process by the European Commission this morning Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said

“Today’s launch by the European Commission of its Green Paper on CMU initiates an important process. CMU has the potential to create a truly integrated EU capital market easing access to finance for European companies and consumers. ESMA strongly supports this project.”

SunGard Wins Acquisition International’s 2015 Hedge Fund Award For Innovation In Global Corporate Actions Processing

Date 18/02/2015

SunGard has won the Acquisition International (AI) 2015 Hedge Fund Award for Innovation in Global Corporate Actions Processing for its XSP solution. Now in its third year, AI’s Hedge Fund Awards use a comprehensive selection process by combining the votes they receive with its own in-house research to arrive at a final winners list.

Changing The Amman Stock Exchange's Trading Session On Thursday 19 February 2015

Date 18/02/2015

Based on the Prime Minister's decision to change the official office hours of the government departments and public institutions due to the weather conditions on Thursday Feb19, 2015 to be end at 12 am. 

TMX Datalinx To Become Global Distributor Of Wall Street Horizon’s Data Products

Date 18/02/2015

TMX Datalinx, the information services division of TMX Group, and Wall Street Horizon Inc, (WSH) today announced an agreement under which TMX Datalinx will become a global distributor of Wall Street Horizon's data products.

trueEX Appoints CIO, Reports Record Trading Volumes

Date 18/02/2015

trueEX, the first designated contract marketplace for interest rate swaps, announced today the appointment of Saro Jahani as Chief Information Officer. The appointment comes at a time of rapid growth for the company, which reported record activity on its platform in January 2015.

UK Financial Conduct Authority - TR15/1: Asset Management Firms And The Risk Of Market Abuse

Date 18/02/2015

This paper presents our findings from the thematic review of how asset management firms control the risk of committing market abuse.

Why are we issuing this thematic review?

Market abuse damages market integrity and undermines confidence in financial markets. At a firm level, association with market abuse causes reputational damage and can lead to substantial financial loss. Our regime requires firms to have effective processes to identify, monitor and manage the risk of market abuse.

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.