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Moscow Exchange: National Clearing Centre Becomes Russia"S First Qualified Central Counterparty

Date 24/10/2013

The National Clearing Centre (NCC) was assigned the Russia"s first qualified central counterparty (CCP).

The UK Financial Conduct Authority Outlines How It Will Regulate Crowdfunding

Date 24/10/2013

Consumers who want to invest in small or start-up businesses via crowdfunding platforms will receive clearer information about the business in which they are investing, under proposed new rules published today by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The changes relate peer-to-peer lending and equity investment based crowdfunding, the two types of crowdfunding that need regulatory oversight.

NASDAQ OMX Commodities Welcomes RWE As New Market Maker

Date 24/10/2013

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH has signed up as Market Maker with NASDAQ OMX Commodities for Nordic Electricity Base load contracts (up to 5 years ahead). 

DFM Introduces Vendor Registration Program To Enhance Electronic Services Offered To Its Licensed Brokerage Firms

Date 24/10/2013

• The program offers vendors direct connectivity testing facility with the exchange for new or upgraded features
• “Quod Financial” and “Financial Technologies” join the program… three other vendors on the way   

SIX Exchange Regulation: Investigation Against UBS AG

Date 24/10/2013

SIX Exchange Regulation is opening an investigation against UBS AG on the grounds of possible breaches of the rules governing ad hoc publicity. 

MNI India Business Indicator Broadly Stable At 59.8 In October - Production Takes A Hit

Date 24/10/2013

The MNI India Business Indicator remained broadly stable in October at 59.8 compared with 59.4 in September, although expectations for the next three months fell, a possible seasonal effect due to the festival season approaching an end.

NZX Congratulates Therese Walsh

Date 24/10/2013

NZX congratulates Therese Walsh, one of NZX’s Directors, who was last night named the Supreme Award winner at the inaugural Women of Influence Awards.

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: KiwiSaver Assets Jump 30 Percent To Top $16.5b

Date 24/10/2013

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) says assets invested in KiwiSaver have passed $16.5 billion, up nearly $4 billion, or 30 percent, on last year.

Shanghai Stock Exchange’s New Trading Rules To Be Implemented In December: Thresholds For Block Trading Lowered

Date 24/10/2013

With the growth of the Chinese capital market and the successive launching of innovative business lines and products, the market is increasingly calling for a flexible and diversified trading system. The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), in response to the market need, carries out systematical innovation and platform renovation for the block trading market, in a bid to build it into a wholesale market advancing in line with the bidding-based matching market. Besides, the SSE continues to diversify and perfect trading products and systems of the bond market. In order to standardize innovative business lines, the SSE has made some amendments to the “SSE Trading Rules”.

Statement On The Proposed Interagency Policy Statement To Establish Standards To Assess The Diversity Policies And Practices Of Regulated Entities, Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., Oct. 23, 2013

Date 23/10/2013

Today, the Commission in conjunction with other regulators issued a Proposed Interagency Policy Statement Establishing Joint Standards for Assessing the Diversity Policies and Practices of Entities Regulated by the Agencies and Request for Comment (the “Proposed Policy Statement”) as an effort to further implement Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”). Section 342 is the provision that establishes the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (“OMWI”) at federal financial regulators and charges this office with all agency matters relating to diversity in management, employment, and business activities. One requirement of Section 342, Section 342(b)(2)(C) of the Dodd-Frank Act, mandates that the agencies’ respective OMWI offices develop standards to assess the diversity policies and practices of entities that they regulate.