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Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For The Week Ended 4 July 2014

Date 04/07/2014

A turnover of 2.272 billion shares worth N28.624 billion in 26,730 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of The Exchange in contrast to a total of 2.893 billion shares valued at N30.027billion that exchanged hands last week in 30,650 deals.

EBA Publishes Final Draft Technical Standards On Conditions For Assessing Materiality Of Extensions And Changes Of Internal Approaches For Market Risk

Date 04/07/2014

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the conditions for assessing the materiality of extensions and changes of the Internal Models Approach (IMA) for market risk. These RTS complement and amend the standards on the rules for credit and operational risk which were adopted and published in the EU Official Journal on 20 May 2014.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 27, 2014

Date 04/07/2014

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 27, 2014. 

EBA Proposes Potential Regulatory Regime For Virtual Currencies, But Also Advises That Financial Institutions Should Not Buy, Hold Or Sell Them Whilst No Such Regime Is In Place

Date 04/07/2014

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion addressed to the EU Council, European Commission and European Parliament setting out the requirements that would be needed to regulate ‘virtual currencies'. The Opinion is also addressed to national supervisory authorities and advises to discourage financial institutions from buying, holding or selling virtual currencies while no regulatory regime is in place.

FSB Launches Peer Review On Supervisory Frameworks And Approaches To SIFIs

Date 04/07/2014

FSB launches peer review on supervisory frameworks and approaches to SIFIs
The FSB launched in July 2014 a thematic peer review on supervisory frameworks and approaches to systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs), focusing in particular on global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The review is being conducted in close collaboration with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and will draw from responses to two questionnaires: one for national supervisory authorities and one for a representative sample of G-SIBs. As part of this review, the FSB invites feedback from financial institutions, industry associations and other stakeholders on the topics covered in the questionnaires. Feedback should be sent to fsb@bis.org by 12 September 2014.

Vienna Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics - June 2014

Date 04/07/2014

Please click here to download Vienna Stock Exchange's monthly statistics for June 2014.

London Stock Exchange Welcomes Romania’s Electrica S.A. To The Main Market

Date 04/07/2014

• Romania’s Prime Minister, Victor Ponta joins Electrica S.A. CEO, Ioan Rosca and Romania's Minister of Energy, Razvan Nicolescu to open London trading
• IPO raises $605 million, valuing the company at $1.18 billion
• GDRs to trade on London Stock Exchange’s International Order Book

MCX Weekly Market Report - June 27, 2014 To July 3, 2014

Date 04/07/2014

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Irish Stock Exchange Statistics June 2014

Date 04/07/2014

Please click here for the June 2014 ISE monthly statistical report.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Sorts Out Issues For Examination And Registration To Promote Self-Regulatory Transformation

Date 04/07/2014

Recently, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has completely sorted out relevant tasks in implementation of examination and registration for market participants in self-regulation, and released a list for issues related to examination and registration, as well as guidelines for handling relevant business lines to the market. This sorting-out work is one of the SSE’s key measures in enhancing quality, efficiency and transparency of self-regulation and service work, according to the requirement of “Promoting Transformation of Regulation on Securities and Futures” put forward by the “Some Opinions of the State Council on Further Propelling Sound Growth of the Capital Market”.