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ESMA Launches Third EU-Wide CCP Stress Test Exercise

Date 03/04/2019

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published the framework for its third EU-wide Central Counterparties (CCPs) stress test, marking the launch of its latest CCP stress test exercise. ESMA, as mandated under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), initiates and coordinates this exercise to assess the resilience and safety of European CCPs to adverse market developments and to identify any potential shortcomings.

Dubai Financial Market’s Business Excellence Journey Reaches New Height Grabbing The Dubai Quality Award For The Financial Sector

Date 03/04/2019

• H.E. Essa Kazim: “The DQA has been playing a pivotal role in promoting best practices of quality and winning the award from the first application, underlines DFM’s business excellence throughout its momentous history”

Nasdaq Dubai Welcomes Listing Of USD One Billion Sukuk By Emirate Of Sharjah

Date 03/04/2019

Nasdaq Dubai today welcomed the listing of a one billion US dollar Sukuk issued by the Emirate of Sharjah.

European Council, Council Of The European Union: Visa Free Travel After Brexit: Council And European Parliament Reach Agreement

Date 03/04/2019

The Council and the European Parliament have agreed that, following Brexit, UK citizens coming to the Schengen area for a short stay (90 days in any 180 days) should be granted visa free travel.This agreement was confirmed yesterday by EU ambassadors on behalf of the Council and by the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee today. The text now needs to be formally adopted by the European Parliament and the Council.

Vienna Stock Exchange: New Austrian Listings In Q1, Equity Turnover Declining Throughout Europe Due To BREXIT

Date 03/04/2019

• Most active stocks: Erste Group, OMV, voestalpine
• Average monthly equity turnover stable from a 5-year perspective
• Uptime improvements planned for Q2

ReadID Is Used By UK Home Office For EU Settlement Scheme

Date 03/04/2019

InnoValor announces that its flagship software product ReadID is used by the UK Home Office to enable EU citizens obtaining UK immigration status after Brexit by using a smartphone app. This new digital service will support the EU Settlement Scheme by allowing identity verification to be done remotely using a smartphone app, including ePassport chip verification, biometric facial matching and liveness detection. ReadID provides the functionality for reading and verifying the chip present in epassports and identity cards.

KRM22 Deploys Market Surveillance Desktop Application Irisium On OpenFin OS - KRM22’s Irisium Users Benefit From Seamless Deployment And Easy Interoperability With Other Applications Deployed On OpenFin

Date 03/04/2019

OpenFin, the capital market’s operating system (OS), today announced that KRM22, the technology and software investment company, with a particular focus on risk management in capital markets, has become the first compliance vendor to deploy on OpenFin’s OS.

Djibouti Islamic Finance Country Report To Be Launched During The 44th IsDBG Annual Meeting In Morocco

Date 03/04/2019

An Islamic Finance country report on the Republic of Djibouti is set to be launched tomorrow in Marrakech, Morocco, on the sidelines of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group.

Phillip Futures Contracts With Trading Technologies To Distribute The TT® Platform

Date 03/04/2019

Phillip Futures, a leading Singapore-based brokerage, and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, yesterday announced that Phillip Futures has contracted with Trading Technologies to distribute the TT futures trading platform. With this agreement, Phillip Futures now provides direct access to TT’s powerful suite of professional trading tools, including the industry-leading MD Trader® ladder, Autospreader®, integrated trade surveillance, comprehensive charting and analytics, and more.

ASX Monthly Activity Report - March 2019

Date 03/04/2019

Trading – Cash Markets (including equities, interest rate and warrant trades)

• In March 2019, the average daily number of trades was 27% higher than the pcp. The average daily value traded on-market of $5.0 billion was up 14% on the pcp. 
• Volatility (as measured by the average daily movement in the All Ordinaries Index) was 0.3% in March down on the previous month 0.4%. 
• Expected future volatility (as measured by the S&P/ASX 200 VIX) in March was an average of 12.1 (compared to 12.6 in February).