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RegTech Insight Awards Shortlist Velocimetrics For Its Third Nomination This Year

Date 18/03/2019

Fintech firm Velocimetrics, the leading provider of business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Vendor Solution for Managing Operational Risk’ category by the RegTech Insight Awards.

CME Group Announces All-Time Eurodollar Options Open Interest Record Of 55.8 Million Contracts - Open Interest In Options On Financial Futures Reach New Record Of 68.5 Million Contracts

Date 18/03/2019

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached an all-time Eurodollar options open interest record of 55.8 million contracts on March 15, 2019. Open interest has continued to grow since reaching the previous record of 52.4 million contracts that was set on March 15, 2018.

Moscow Exchange: The Additional Trading Session Starts Later For Derivatives Market On 4, 11, 16, 17, 18 And 25 April 2019

Date 18/03/2019

Please note that the Derivatives Market evening trading session will begin five minutes later, i.e. at 7:05 pm MSK, on 4, 11, 16, 17, 18 and 25 April 2019, as these are the last trading days for options contracts (in accordance with clause 7.2 of the Rules of organized trading for the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market).

ASEAN Capital Markets Forum Advances Regional Integration Efforts Through Roadmap For Sustainable Capital Markets

Date 18/03/2019

The ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) today met in Bangkok to endorse the Roadmap on ASEAN Sustainable Capital Markets to promote ASEAN asset classes for sustainable investment, in line with ASEAN’s theme on “Advancing Partnership for Sustainability”. The Roadmap will be proposed to the ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meeting in Chiang Rai for acknowledgment in April 2019.

EuroCCP To Provide Post-Trade Services To EU-Based Entities Of Aquis Exchange, Cboe Europe Equities And Turquoise

Date 18/03/2019

EuroCCP, Europe’s leading equities clearinghouse, today confirms that it has obtained the necessary regulatory approvals to provide post-trade services to the EU-based entities of Aquis Exchange, Cboe Europe Equities and Turquoise.

GPW Offers New Derivatives

Date 18/03/2019

• GPW is planning to introduce to trading new derivatives to address the needs of market participants
• Futures on shares of LPP with a new multiplier of 1 and futures on shares of 11 BIT Studios with a new multiplier of 10 will be introduced to trading
• The multiplier of futures on shares of mBank and Santander Bank will change to 10 (previously 100)
• New macroindices will become the underlying of futures

Red Deer Blog: The Hidden Problems Europe Uncovered During Unbundling

Date 18/03/2019

This is the second in a three-part series of articles to help US asset and hedge fund managers answer their clients’ questions about the unbundling of payments for research and trading and understand what a best in class research management system looks like.

Alternative Investment Management Summit In UAE: Alternative Investments Grow Beyond $10 Trillion

Date 18/03/2019

A 60/40 allocation to equities and bonds is no longer likely to be enough to offer investors the outcomes and diversification required to reach their long-term objectives – alternative investments are increasingly critical to the investor’s portfolio.

SIX Reports Solid Financial Performance Following Year Of Transformation

Date 18/03/2019

Ten years after it was founded, SIX undertook a comprehensive realignment in 2018. At the same time, SIX generated operating income of CHF 1.94 billion, which was virtually the same as in the previous year. It achieved this despite the fact that the Cards business was transferred to Worldline, and so only contributed to income for 11 months of the year. Group net profit rose to CHF 2.88 billion thanks to the positive one-off effect of this transaction.

ESMA Registers Beyond Ratings SAS As Credit Rating Agency

Date 18/03/2019

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s direct supervisor of credit rating agencies (CRAs), has registered today Beyond Ratings SAS as a CRA under the CRA Regulation.