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Federal Reserve Board Issues Enforcement Action With Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Date 25/04/2019

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below:

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Written agreement regarding anti-money laundering compliance dated April 23, 2019

EBA Adds MCD To Its Online Interactive Single Rulebook And QA Tools

Date 25/04/2019

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated its online Interactive Single Rulebook and Q&A tool with the inclusion of the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD).

Mandatory Notification Of Trades - Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA

Date 25/04/2019

In connection with a monthly share savings plan for employees of subsidiaries, Oslo Børs VPS Holding has sold a total of 2286 shares. New holding is 11116 shares. Employees paid a share price of NOK 158,53 per share, but were allowed a discount of 20% on purchases up to NOK 1,250.

Nasdaq Opens New Global Headquarters And Client Experience Center - The New Headquarters Expands Media Partnerships And Events, Including New Programming With Barron’s, Bloomberg’s CIO Exchange, NASA And The Washington Post Live

Date 25/04/2019

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ), today announced the opening of its new global headquarters at 151 W. 42nd Street and Client Experience Center on the 10th floor, featuring a 2,100 square foot outdoor terrace above the iconic Nasdaq Tower in Times Square. The new state-of-the-art Client Experience Center has the capacity to host 400 people for industry and corporate events. During the next two years the company will consolidate its remaining New York office space into the new location.

Eurex: Repo Partnership Program Gets Strong Tailwind

Date 25/04/2019

The first few months of 2019 have turned out to be very successful for Eurex Repo. Not only were we able to welcome ten new clients to our Repo markets since January; there are another ten buy-side clients in the process of onboarding, mainly pension funds and insurance companies.

BME’s Shareholders´Meeting Approves All Board Proposals

Date 25/04/2019

• Javier Hernani, top executive of the company
• Antonio Zoido remains as non-executive chairman, following 17 years at the helm during which the net profit of BME has grown 132.5%
• BME to distribute a gross final dividend per share of 0.57 euros on May 10
• The efficiency ratio and ROE in 2018, of 33.1% and 38.8%, respectively, place BME above the sector average

Vienna Stock Exchange Further Expands Global Market Segment

Date 25/04/2019

The second largest segment of the Vienna Stock Exchange will be expanded with attractive listings of primarily US companies but also stocks from Europe. As of today, the cosmetics company Estée Lauder, the largest international stock exchange operator Nasdaq, the retail chain Foot Locker, the e-commerce website Etsy, the Internet recommendation portal Yelp, the clothing label Levi Strauss (which recently went public) as well as the aviation company Air France-KLM and many others are tradable on the Vienna Stock Exchange. In total, the offering on the global market now consists of more than 620 securities from 26 countries. The Vienna Stock Exchange generated a turnover of EUR 750 million for the segment in 2019. 

HKEX Temporary Holiday Risk Management Arrangements - Special Intra-Day Margin Call In Respect Of The Labour Day

Date 25/04/2019

The Traded Options Market will be closed for business on 1 May 2019. In order to assure that safeguards are in place against potential market risk that may arise during the aforesaid period when some of the major markets are open, the Clearing House has decided to make a special intra-day margin call in respect of all open positions on Tuesday, 30 April 2019.

State Street Global Exchange: Investor Confidence Rose In April By 1.7 Points To 72.9

Date 25/04/2019

State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for April  2019.

CISI And ACIFMA Deal Extends Mutual Professional Finance Education Programmes To Combined 53,000 Global Membership

Date 25/04/2019

The ACI – The Financial Markets Association (ACIFMA), a global finance trade association with over 8,000 international members in five continents has signed an agreement with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).