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  • FTSE Russell Expands ESG Ratings Analysis To Include Australian Small Cap Companies

    Date 13/06/2019

    • Supports the stewardship activities of Australian investors
    • Australian small capitalisation stocks now included in expanded ESG research universe
    • Universe now covers approximately 250 Australian listed companies

  • Euronext: Quarterly Review Of The BEL 20®, BEL MID® And BEL SMALL®

    Date 13/06/2019

    Euronext yesterday announced the results of the quarterly review for the BEL 20®, BEL Mid®, and BEL Small® indices. The changes due to the review will be effective from Monday 24 June 2019.

  • Shenzhen Stock Exchange Joins Hands With Shandong Provincial Government To Foster New Driving Forces Of Growth For Shandong's Economy

    Date 13/06/2019

    On 11 June 2019, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and the People's Government of Shandong Province held a seminar to discuss how to leverage the capital market to support the high-quality growth of Shandong economy and the construction of China’s first comprehensive test area for new and old kinetic energy conversion. The two sides signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the seminar. This is an important step taken by SZSE, as a multi-tiered capital market platform, to play a greater role in the transformation and upgrading of local economies. It is also a key measure taken by SZSE to help Shandong Province press forward its economic development strategy which focuses on eight pillars of the province’s economy. Vice Governor of Shandong Province Liu Qiang, Vice Chairman of the Shandong Provincial Political Consultative Conference Wang Xiulin, and SZSE Chairman Wu Lijun attended the related events.

  • Shanghai Stock Exchange: The 1st Self-Discipline Committee Proposes Industry Initiatives & Suggestions On Fueling Enterprises’Smooth Issuing In Initial Stage Of Sci-Tech Innovation Board

    Date 13/06/2019

    Since the establishment of the 1st Public Offering Self-discipline Committee (the Self-discipline Committee for short) for the Sci-tech Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), all institution members have actively participated in relevant work and earnestly fulfilled their duties. In the first two working conferences, it discussed and ratified the “Rules of Debate of the Self-discipline Committee”, researched and proposed several measures of facilitating the reasonable pricing for new shares’ issuance, and made suggestions on formulating the issuing and underwriting rules.

    The Self-discipline Committee lately held the 3rd working conference of 2019. It studied and evaluated the difficulties and challenges in the domestic and overseas markets, the IPO overload and the inadequate preparations for the main business and technology of participants that the enterprises would face in the issuance in the initial stage of the Sci-tech Innovation Board. And it also discussed and researched the measures on promoting the smooth issuance of enterprises in the initial stage of the Sci-tech Innovation Board, including giving play to the role of medium and long-term funds, strengthening the restriction on investors’ quotation, simplifying the issuance and listing procedures and setting reasonable standards for the brokerage commission of new shares’ allotment, and came up with the industry initiatives and suggestions. The conference ended up with a resolution through panel discussion.

    The Self-discipline Committee, a consulting and advisory institution composed of participants in the primary market of shares issuance on the Sci-tech Innovation Board, is responsible for offering opinions on the formulation of policies related to shares issuance and making industry initiatives and suggestions on issuing and underwriting shares and other issues. The specific measures of the industry initiatives and suggestions are staged arrangement in the early period of the Sci-tech Innovation Board, and the Self-discipline Committee will make timely research and adjustment according to market reality. The SSE fully respects and supports the efforts and the industry initiatives and suggestions that it has made and appeals to the to-be-listed enterprises on the Sci-tech Innovation Board and their sponsoring institutions, underwriting institutions and relevant parities for observing the industry initiatives and suggestions in the initial stage of the Sci-tech Innovation Board, thus creating a favorable market ecology and maintaining the sound and stable development of the Sci-tech Innovation Board. In the work of filing the issuance schemes, the SSE will pay close attention to the observance of issuers and lead underwriters in the preliminary stage of the Sci-tech Innovation Board.

  • Japan's Financial Services Agency: Insurance Forum Japan 2019 - Remarks By Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Of Finance, Minister Of State For Financial Services

    Date 13/06/2019

    Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Tokyo.

    This year, Japan holds the G20 Presidency and has focused on the following three themes, namely: risks and challenges to the global economy; concrete actions to strengthen growth potential; and, how policy can respond to economic and social changes driven by technological innovation and globalization.