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Refinitiv: Pound Falls To Three-Year Low Against Dollar

Date 03/09/2019

With the pound falling against the dollar to its lowest levels since October 2016, please see below charts from Refinitiv showing the pound’s performance for today and since the beginning of August.

Monetary Authority Of Singapore: Reply To Parliamentary Question On European Commission’s Decision To Repeal Equivalence Status For Credit Rating Agencies In Singapore

Date 03/09/2019

Question:

To ask the Prime Minister whether there are plans to improve the regulation regime of credit rating agencies in Singapore to re-achieve equivalence status with the regulation regime of the European Union.

First Batch Of Commodity Futures ETFs To Be Listed On Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Date 03/09/2019

Recently, the first batch of domestic commodity futures ETFs, including ChinaAMC Soybean Meal Futures ETF, CCB Principal Asset Management Esunny ZCE Energy & Chemical Futures ETF, Dacheng Fund Non-ferrous Metal Futures ETF, was approved by the CSRC for registration and will be listed on SZSE. In general, commodity futures ETFs track the price index of commodity futures and invest in futures contracts included in the corresponding index. The above three commodity futures ETFs track Dalian Commodity Exchange Soybean Meal Futures Index, Esunny Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange Energy & Chemical index A, and Shanghai Futures Exchange Non-ferrous Metals Futures Index, respectively.

Investor Activity On GPW Group Markets – August 2019 - Trading On GPW Group Markets

Date 03/09/2019

• Decrease of the value of trading in equities on the Electronic Order Book on the GPW Main Market by 4.0% YoY to PLN 16.2 billion in August 2019
• Increase in the average daily value of trading in equities on the Electronic Order Book on the Main Market by 0.6% YoY to PLN 771.8 million in August 2019
• Increase of the total volume of trading in derivatives by 20.9% YoY to 643.9 thousand contracts in August 2019
• Increase of the total volume of trading in electricity by 18.4% to 21.2 TWh in August 2019
• Increase of the total volume of trading in gas by 6.6% YoY to 14.9 TWh in August 2019
• Increase of the volume of spot transactions in property rights to certificates of origin of energy efficiency (“white certificates”) by 283.1% YoY to 70.8 ktoe in August 2019

Russian Broker UNIVER Capital Becomes Trading Member Of AIX

Date 03/09/2019

Astana International Exchange (“AIX”, “Exchange”) is pleased to announce that UNIVER Capital, one of Russia’s brokers, became a trading member of AIX. UNIVER Capital provides its customers with the full range of brokerage services.

Volante Technologies Expands Senior Leadership Team To Support Growth - Harp Grewal Joins As Chief Operating Officer And Deepak Gupta As Global Head Of Software As A Service

Date 03/09/2019

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of technology and software as a service to accelerate digital transformation and payments modernization, today announced two senior strategic hires to drive the continued growth of the company.

Revised Lists Of The Moscow Exchange Indices Announced

Date 03/09/2019

Moscow Exchange announced today the results of the quarterly review for MOEX indices. All changes will be implemented from 20 September 2019. The Exchange has also set free floats for a number of companies.

Publication Of Japan Exchange Group Report 2019

Date 03/09/2019

The Japan Exchange Group is glad to inform you of the publication of the JPX Report 2019. 

Closure Of Bursa Malaysia In Conjunction With Yang Di-Pertuan Agong’s Birthday

Date 03/09/2019

Bursa Malaysia Berhad and its subsidiaries will be closed on Monday, 9 September 2019, in conjunction with Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s Birthday.

Speech By Loh Boon Chye, CEO, Singapore Exchange At Euromoney's The Global Borrowers And Investors Forum - Asia On 3 September 2019

Date 03/09/2019

Introduction

1. Thank you, Tony, for the introduction, and for giving me the privilege to speak at today’s forum. 

2. We are gathered here at an interesting time for the bond markets.  Ongoing global trade tensions continue to pose risks to the world economy.  However, even as global growth moderates, bond markets in emerging Asia are expanding. This is underpinned by the expectation that emerging Asia will remain one of the fastest growing regions in the world, leading global growth amid historically low interest rates.