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EEX Extends Power Derivatives Offering For Various European Market Areas

Date 16/10/2019

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will expand its product range with new short term Power Futures for the Austrian market area (EEX Phelix-AT Futures) as of 2nd December 2019. In addition, EEX extends the number of tradable quarterly maturities for French, Italian and Spanish Power Futures.

BME: MARF Registers First Green Bond Programme By Grenergy

Date 16/10/2019

• For a maximum amount of 50 million euros
• The company diversifies its long-term financing sources to access investors with ESG management criteria

LCH Expands Deliverable FX Offering

Date 16/10/2019

• FX forwards now available for clearing at LCH; first CCP to clear the product
• Utilises settlement model developed in collaboration with CLS
• ForexClear expansion builds on existing clearing service for FX non-deliverable forwards and deliverable options

ACTIV Financial Releases Pure Software Ticker Plant - New Platform Leverages High-Speed CPUs To Drive Down Costs And Management Resource

Date 16/10/2019

ACTIV Financial has launched a software-only implementation of its award-winning ticker plant and content management platform, which capitalizes on advances in CPU technology and kernel-bypass networking to meet or exceed performance previously associated with hardware acceleration. This landmark achievement comes at a time of increased data message rates amid spiraling exchange data costs; and is the latest in a series of technological advances ACTIV Financial has made to address the rapid growth in electronic trading, market volatility, and pace of technological innovation.

Swiss Ambassador Rings Tehran Stock Exchange Opening Bell

Date 16/10/2019

The ambassador of Switzerland in Iran joined Tehran Stock Exchange’s CEO in the Trading floor for opening bell ceremony.

NSD Presents Its Grain Tokenization Project At The Finopolis Forum

Date 16/10/2019

National Settlement Depository (NSD) announced that it began developing a technology to digitalize (tokenize) grain warehouse receipts.

Vela Launches Next Generation FPGA-Enabled Ticker Plant Appliance For US Equities - Latest Generation Appliance More Than Halves Latency, While Providing Access To US Equity Markets On A Single Device

Date 16/10/2019

Vela, a leading independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, announced today the availability of its latest ultra-low latency Ticker Plant Appliance for US Equities. In partnership with Enyx, a leading developer and provider of ultra-low latency technologies and solutions for the financial industry, Vela has integrated Enyx’s nxFeed FPGA card into the appliance to provide a step change in capacity and performance on the smallest of footprints.

EBA Launches Consultation On Comprehensive Pillar 3 Disclosures

Date 16/10/2019

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on the new comprehensive Implementing Technical Standard (ITS) for financial institutions' public disclosure, designed to promote market discipline. This ambitious proposal seeks to optimise the EBA Pillar 3 policy framework by moving from a silo based approach, with different disclosure policy products, to an all-inclusive ITS. It also implements regulatory changes introduced by the CRR2 and aligns the disclosure framework with international standards.

Tehran Stock Exchange Weekly Market Review 12 October 2019 To 16 October 2019

Date 16/10/2019

Click here to download Tehran Stock Exchange's weekly market review.

State Street Research Reveals Two Thirds Of UK Institutional Investors See No Deal Brexit As Negative For Markets - Institutional Investor Sentiment Revealed On The Expected Market Implications From Different Brexit Scenarios

Date 16/10/2019

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced its latest Brexometer research, measuring the sentiment of institutional investors in relation to Brexit developments. The research revealed that two-thirds (66 percent) of institutional investors believe the UK leaving the European Union without a deal on October 31 will have a negative impact on global markets, with almost one in three (31 percent) expecting “serious implications”.