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A Delegation From Chicago Visited The Amman Stock Exchange

Date 24/03/2015

The Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) represented by the CEO of the ASE, Mr. Nader Azar, received a delegation from Northwestern University / Kellogg School of Management in Chicago / USA. This visit comes within a series of field visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Mr. Azar presented a lecture on the most important legislative, technical and quantitative developments witnessed by the ASE in recent years and the challenges facing the securities industry and the role of capital market institutions in the provision of an attractive environment for investment especially in light of the openness of the national economy to foreign investment. At the end of the lecture, the questions related to the Jordanian Capital Market were answered

Auto Trader Opens London Stock Exchange As Largest IPO Of The Year

Date 24/03/2015

• Auto Trader largest company to list on London Stock Exchange, to date, in 2015
• IPO raises £1.39 billion, largest fund raising since 2013, valuing Auto Trader at £2.35 billion
• Trades up 10 per cent from offer price

Moscow Exchange To Offer New Facilities For Trading And Settlement Of Equities, Bonds, Repos And Derivatives

Date 24/03/2015

Moscow Exchange announces a number of upgrades and new product roll-outs planned for the equity, bond, repo and derivative markets in April 2015. All anonymous trading in Russian federal government bonds (OFZs) will move to T+1 settlement, creating a single order book. Block trading for OFZs will be introduced. Settlement in USD will be allowed for foreign stocks and depository receipts. Discrete auctions for stocks will be upgraded. Additional upgrades include expanded terms for repo with the CCP, new mechanisms for delivering bond futures and exercising options, and new clearing arrangements on the Equity & Bond Market.

Perseus Sets Up Regional Headquarters In Hong Kong

Date 24/03/2015

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) today announced that one of the 2014 StartmeupHK Venture Programme grand prize winners, Perseus, which is a US-based financial technology company, has opened a regional headquarters in Hong Kong.

The Start-Up Nation Index: New York –Based Company BlueStar Indexes Introduces The TA-BIGITech Index™ - TA-BIGITech ™ includes 57 Stocks Of Israeli High-Tech Companies Listed In Tel Aviv, New York And London, As Well As Dual-Listed Companies, And Will Serve As The Underlying Benchmark For Index Funds, ETFs And ETNs

Date 24/03/2015

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) continues to implement the recommendations of the R&D Committee for promotion of Israeli high-tech companies, and has signed a cooperation agreement with BlueStar Indexes, a New York-based investment research company engaged in the development of global indexes.

CUSIP To Integrate With Ipreo New-Issue Solutions - Ipreo Will Serve As A Point Of Origination For CUSIP Requests, Simplifying New-Issue Transactions For All Participants

Date 24/03/2015

Ipreo, a premier global provider of market intelligence and productivity solutions to financial services and corporate professionals, and CUSIP Global Services (CGS), a leading provider of unique security and entity identifiers, announced the signing of an agreement whereby Ipreo's new-issuance systems will serve as a global, cross-asset class point of origination for CUSIP and ISIN requests on primary new-issue transactions.

Greece Should Resume Policy Dialogue And Agree On Reforms, ECB President Mario Draghi Tells MEPs

Date 24/03/2015

The European Central Bank’s expanded asset purchase programme, better known as “quantitative easing” (QE), is starting to make headway across the EU, ECB President Mario Draghi told Economic and Monetary Committee MEPs on Monday. Mr Draghi also reported on the tough negotiations with Greece and outlined what it would take for the ECB to reinstate the waiver for buying Greek state bonds on the secondary market, so as to enable QE to benefit Greece, too.

Steven Maijoor, Chair ESMA, At ECON Hearing MIFID/MIFIR CSDR

Date 24/03/2015

I am delighted to have been invited by the Chair and Members of ECON to present the work of ESMA on the delegated acts and implementing measures under MiFID 2/MIFIR and CSDR.

MIFID2/MIFIR

Let me first comment on MIFID2/MIFIR, which is the most significant piece of Level 2 regulation that ESMA has undertaken since its establishment. As you know, part of this undertaking is making every effort to ensure that the consultation is as wide and open as possible and that all stakeholders are heard. We have also updated periodically the Parliament on how the Level 2 measures advanced.

Eagle Accounting Reaches New Milestone

Date 24/03/2015

Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a BNY Mellon company and leading provider of financial services technology, today announced that two of the world's leading investment management firms, Capital Group Companies, Inc. and Invesco Ltd., chose Eagle's accounting solution in 2014 to process and facilitate their investment accounting and reporting needs. With the addition of these two clients, $9 trillion is now processed on the Eagle Accounting platform, marking a new milestone for the solution.

ESMA Consults On Complex Debt Instruments And Structured Deposits In MiFID II

Date 24/03/2015

The European Securities and Markets Authority launched today a consultation on draft guidelines on complex debt instruments and structured deposits.