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99 Firms To Meet Investors In Thai bourse’s “Opportunity Days”

Date 31/10/2013

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) will hold its quarterly "Opportunity Days" (OppDay), where top managements of listed companies meet directly with analysts and investors, on November 4 - December 12. This quarter will see 99 firms, with a combined THB 4.1 trillion (approx.USD 132 billion) market capitalization, participate in the event.

NASDAQ OMX Iceland Starts Trading The First Ever Bond ETF Issued By Landsbref

Date 31/10/2013

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that NASDAQ OMX Iceland has for the first time listed a fixed income exchange traded fund (ETF) issued by the Icelandic fund management company Landsbref. The new bond ETF, Landsbref - LREAL (LREAL), tracks the NASDAQ OMX Iceland Inflation-linked Benchmark Bonds index (NOMXIREAL).

South Africa’s Financial Institutions Come Together To Meet Global Regulations Through Collateral Optimisation

Date 31/10/2013

Strate, Africa’s leading Central Securities Depository (CSD), and Clearstream, the International CSD (ICSD) and national CSD that is part of Deutsche Börse Group, today announced the launch of a centralised collateral management service for the South African financial market. Some of South Africa’s largest financial institutions*, including banks, a number of fund managers and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), have committed to exploring the use of these services to more efficiently manage collateral and to mitigate operational and credit risk within the South African market. 

ASIC Lodges Major Senate Inquiry Submission

Date 31/10/2013

ASIC today lodged its major submission to the Senate Economics Committee’s inquiry into the regulator.

US Federal Reserve And Other Central Banks Convert Temporary Bilateral Liquidity Swap Arrangements To Standing Arrangements

Date 31/10/2013

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank announced on Thursday that their existing temporary bilateral liquidity swap arrangements are being converted to standing arrangements, that is, arrangements that will remain in place until further notice. 

ASIC In 2014: Areas Of Focus And Expected Changes To The Regulatory Landscape - A Speech By Greg Medcraft, Chairman, Australian Securities And Investments Commission, To The Governance, Risk And Compliance (GRC) Conference, 31 October 2013.

Date 31/10/2013

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Speech By Song Liping, President & CEO Of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, At The 6th China-Wuhan Finance Expo

Date 31/10/2013

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,

Since the beginning of this year, following the policy line of further deepening reforms and promoting industrial upgrading set by the central government, we have witnessed positive changes. The endogenous power of economic growth has been strengthened, while market expectation and public confidence in accelerating economic development pattern transformation has gradually been formed. We have come to a new starting point where advancing financial reform innovations and supporting the real economy for a new leap becomes the focal issue, gaining wide attention and consideration from all social sectors. 

SIFMA Submits Comments On Credit Risk Retention

Date 30/10/2013

In comments submitted to federal regulators in response to the re-proposed rulemaking on credit risk retention, SIFMA expresses support for many of the changes that have been made to the proposed rules in response to comments received on the original proposals. SIFMA finds that the re-proposal, in many respects, represents a significant improvement over the original proposals in terms of preserving the ability of securitization to support access to mortgage, consumer, and business credit.

CFTC Announces Mutual Acceptance Of Approved Legal Entity Identifiers

Date 30/10/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced in a Notice posted on the CFTC.gov website on October 30, 2013, that registered entities and swap counterparties subject to CFTC swap data recordkeeping and reporting regulations concerning Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) can now comply with those regulations by using any LEI issued by an LEI provider endorsed by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global LEI system. This includes the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) issued by the CICI Utility operated by DTCC-SWIFT, the provider of LEIs designated by CFTC.

MIAX Options Exchange Extension Of The Priority Customer Rebate Program To November 30, 2013

Date 30/10/2013

The MIAX Regulatory Circular, MIAX_RC_2013-61, refers to the extension of the MIAX Options Exchange Priority Customer Rebate Program (the “Program”) to November 30, 2013.  The MIAX Options Fee Schedule is posted on the MIAX website at http://www.miaxoptions.com/content/fees.