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CME Group And GFI Group Terminate Merger Agreement

Date 30/01/2015

CME Group Inc. and GFI Group Inc. today announced that they have each determined to terminate their previously announced merger agreement following today's special meeting of GFI shareholders. 

GFI Shareholders Strongly Reject The Proposed CME-GFI Management Merger Proposal - A Rejection By GFI Shareholders Would Mean That BGC's Tender Offer Is The Only Remaining Takeover Offer - BGC Urges GFI Shareholders To Tender Their Shares Into BGC's $6.10 Per Share Offer

Date 30/01/2015

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "the Company," or "BGC"), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the financial and real estate markets, today issued a statement following the conclusion of the special meeting of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG) ("GFI Group" or "GFI") where, based on preliminary tabulation by the independent inspector, shareholders rejected the proposed merger agreement with CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) ("CME").

BATS 1000 Index Down 2.4% This Week

Date 30/01/2015

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a leading operator of  securities markets in the U.S. and Europe, reports the BATS 1000® Index (Ticker: BATSK) dropped 542.54 points to close at 22,303.35, down 2.4 percent over last Friday’s close.

Genscape - After The Strike: French Power Price Increase Falls Short

Date 30/01/2015

Following a 24-hour strike by French energy unions that EDF warned of earlier this week, it was monitored that the strike did not bring drastic power price increases despite a 5,181 MW reduction in generation availability.

CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

Date 30/01/2015

The current reports for the week of January 27, 2015 are now available.

ISDA Statement Re: CFTC Commissioner Giancarlo’s White Paper On SEF Rules

Date 30/01/2015

“Commissioner Giancarlo’s paper is a constructive step forward in the ongoing discussion about the appropriate market structure for swaps and derivatives trading. 

Nasdaq's BWise GRC Platform Selected By Grupo Portucel Soporcel To Further Enhance Its Risk Management Processes

Date 30/01/2015

Nasdaq's BWise(Nasdaq:NDAQ), a global leader in enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (eGRC), announced today that it has been selected by grupo Portucel Soporcel to support the European leader in uncoated wood-free (UWF) writing and printing paper in improving its risk management standards by implementing an integrated GRC software solution for risk management, internal control and audit.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Market Attributes: Europe Index Dashboard

Date 30/01/2015

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Federal Reserve Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At The Office Of Financial Research And Financial Stability Oversight Council's 4th Annual Conference On Evaluating Macroprudential Tools: Complementarities And Conflicts, Arlington, Virginia

Date 30/01/2015

Advancing Macroprudential Policy Objectives

Standing in front of this audience I feel secure in observing that we are all macroprudentialists now. The imperative of fashioning a regulatory regime that focuses on the financial system as a whole, and not just the well-being of individual firms, is now quite broadly accepted. Indeed, the two entities co-sponsoring this conference were themselves created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which reoriented financial regulation toward safeguarding financial stability by containing systemic risk--an aim that may not define all of macroprudential policy, but surely rests at its center.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 5, 2015

Date 30/01/2015

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 5, 2015.