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GreySpark FX Trading Report: Buyside Firms Increasingly Trade FX With Other Buyside Firms In Bank-To-Bank Venues

Date 14/10/2014

• Buyside firms meeting other buyside firms on the other side of spot FX trades within bank-to-bank trading venues dramatically increases since 2008
• Buyside firms assert more control over how they access sellside liquidity as electronic trading creates new all-to-all market structures 

Asia Pacific Institutions Turn To Portfolio Reconciliation Ahead Of Regulatory Changes - TriOptima’s triResolve Service Gains 78 Clients In Region

Date 14/10/2014

Impending regulatory changes in Asia Pacific (APAC) have prompted leading financial institutions to proactively reconcile their portfolios and manage their collateral disputes, according to TriOptima, leading provider of OTC derivative post trade services.

EuroCCP Expands Its OTC Trade Services By Adding Traiana’s Harmony Platform

Date 14/10/2014

EuroCCP announced today its clearing services for clients’ matching OTC transactions with Traiana.

Orc Smart Order Router Offers High-Performance Order Routing And Rich Feature Set For Multi-Venue Trading

Date 14/10/2014

Orc, a global leader in derivatives trading technology, today announced Orc Smart Order Router (SOR), a flexible, high-performance routing engine designed to enhance quality of execution, reach the best liquidity and reduce costs. It also enables brokers and firms to consolidate their market access infrastructure to one global vendor.

Hermes Funds To Be Distributed Over The Calastone Network - Calastone Expands Single-To-Many Automated Cross-Border Fund Messaging

Date 14/10/2014

Hermes Investment Management has selected Calastone, the global funds transaction network, for their global order routing services.

The Processing Capacity Of The Bucharest Stock Exchange’s Arena Trading System Increases After The Trading/Post-Trading Systems’ Segregation

Date 14/10/2014

Bucharest Stock Exchange informs the market participants that the number of quotations allocated to the market-makers and to the liquidity providers trading on BVB’s market will be doubled, to facilitate their trading activity and the listing of the new quoting-intensive instruments.

Dion Global Solutions Launches Technology To Support The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programme

Date 14/10/2014

Dion Global Solutions (Dion) (BSE: 526927), technology partner to the financial services industry, has launched a new module within its NOVA suite to support the Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme.

New Zealanders Underestimate Investment Risk And Prefer Lower Risk Investment Options

Date 14/10/2014

Research conducted for the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) shows Kiwis are switched-on about straightforward, low-risk investment options. But when responding to questions about investments with more risk, people are far less confident.

FSB Publishes Regulatory Framework For Haircuts On Non-centrally Cleared Securities Financing Transactions

Date 13/10/2014

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is publishing today a Regulatory Framework for Haircuts on Non-centrally Cleared Securities Financing Transactions . This Framework is a key part of the FSB's policy recommendations to address shadow banking risks in relation to securities financing transactions, and takes into account public responses received on the consultative proposals issued on 29 August 2013 as well as the results of a two-stage quantitative impact study (QIS).

US And UK Officials Meet To Discuss Key Components For The Resolution Of A Global Systemically Important Bank

Date 13/10/2014

The heads of the Treasuries and leading financial regulatory bodies in the United States and United Kingdom today participated in an exercise designed to further the understanding, communication, and cooperation between US and UK authorities in the event of the failure and resolution of a global systemically important bank, or G-SIB.