News Centre

Intercontinental Exchange Extends Global Product Licensing Agreement With Eris Innovations

Date 13/03/2019

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that it has extended its global product licensing agreement with Eris Innovations, an intellectual property licensing company that partners with global exchanges to design futures products based on its patented Eris Methodology.

San Juan Mercantile Exchange Announces Strategic Partnerships That Provide Unprecedented Access To Dark Pool Trading In The Digital Asset Market

Date 13/03/2019

The San Juan Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (SJMX) and its affiliate, the San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International Corp. (SJMBT), today announced three key strategic partnerships that pave the way for the initial launch of SJMX's integrated digital assets exchange and banking solution. 

Commentary By Michael Harris, Director Financial Crime Compliance And Reputational Risk LexisNexis® : OPBAS Review Findings

Date 13/03/2019

Michael Harris, Director Financial Crime Compliance and Reputational Risk at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions comments on the recent findings of the OPBAS review into professional bodies’ anti-money laundering (AML) supervisions: 

“The OPBAS review confirms exactly what we suspected – there is an inconsistency, and clearly a lighter touch, in the application of AML rules across the professional services sector. Alarmingly, nearly one in four professional bodies has no form of AML supervision in place whatsoever."

HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts

Date 13/03/2019

Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Friday, 15 March 2019, the margin levels of the following Futures Contract shall be as follows:

REGIS-TR Launches New UK Trade Repository

Date 13/03/2019

European Trade Repository REGIS-TR has announced the incorporation in London of its new UK trade repository (TR), REGIS-TR UK Ltd. The new TR has its operational infrastructure firmly in place and is ready to provide full UK EMIR regulatory reporting services from the first business day after Brexit, currently foreseen for 1 April. The British regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) requires a meaningful presence for trade repositories in the UK in a post-Brexit world.

CQG Partners With The Small Exchange, Enhancing Futures Accessibility For Market Participants Worldwide

Date 13/03/2019

The Small Exchange<https://www.thesmallexchange.com/>, a new futures exchange (pending regulatory approval) backed by award-winning innovators focused on retail customers, announced partnering with CQG<http://www.cqg.com/>, a leading global provider of high-performance solutions for trading, market data, technical analysis, and risk and account management. Through CQG's platform, market participants will have global Direct Market Access to The Small Exchange and its future suite of products.

Is It A Wonderful Life? Speech By Charles Randell, Chair, FCA Delivered At The Retail Banking Conference 2019 In London

Date 13/03/2019

Highlights:

• People may not be using as much cash, but they are interacting with their money more than ever before.
• So having to pay to access cash disproportionately affects those who are least able to afford it.
• So we need a fair system for recognising the costs of staying open which are borne by the last bank and deciding who should bear those costs and whether and how the bank should receive a reasonable return on its capital. 

Eurex To Launch Suite Of Derivatives Using MSCI Dividend Point Indexes

Date 13/03/2019

Eurex, one of the largest derivatives exchanges, has selected MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of indexes, critical decision support tools and services, to provide the indexes for a new range of dividend futures contracts.

Federation Of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) And Its Member Armenia Securities Exchange (AMX) Join The “Ring The Bell For Gender Equality” Initiative - “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate For Change”

Date 13/03/2019

For the first time in Armenia, FEAS and its member AMX  joined the “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” initiative to open the market in celebration of International Women’s Day 2019.

Amundi To Licence Solactive Flagship Equity And Fixed Income Indices

Date 13/03/2019

Solactive is pleased to announce that Amundi, Europe’s largest asset management company with a total of € 1.425 tn in AuM, appointed Solactive as their index provider for the launch of their new ETF range, labeled “Amundi Prime ETF”. The new series contains nine Equity and Fixed Income ETFs, all utilizing Solactive indices as their underlying, and captivates with a progressive low-fee approach featuring just 0.05 percent of ongoing charges, corroborating the seismic shift in the ETF industry towards offering low-cost alternatives.