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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).

ASIC Re-Issues Practical Guidance For Foreign Financial Services Providers In Information Sheet 157

Date 03/04/2019

ASIC has today re-issued Information Sheet 157 Foreign financial services providers – practical guidance (INFO 157) for foreign financial services providers (FFSPs) seeking to provide financial services only to wholesale clients in Australia.

Fostering Closer Supervisory Communication, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle W. Bowman, At The Conference Of State Bank Supervisors, Washington, D.C.

Date 03/04/2019

Thank you to the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) for this opportunity to share my perspective and some of my goals as a Federal Reserve Board governor on issues of interest to you and many in your states.

Mercury Digital Assets Teams With The San Juan Mercantile Exchange For New Digital Asset Dark Pool And OTC Trading - First Trades Successfully Executed

Date 02/04/2019

Mercury Digital Assets (Mercury) announced today that it has partnered with the San Juan Mercantile Exchange (SJMX), and the San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International (SJMBT), to create the SJMX Dark Pool and SJMX Blocks, the exchange's over-the-counter (OTC) trading venue for digital assets. The first trades in the dark pool have been successfully completed. The dark pool and OTC liquidity, built for the needs of institutional users, may be accessed via a FIX API or Mercury's proprietary execution and order management systems (EMS/OMS), BEACON.

NZX Shareholder Metrics March 2019

Date 02/04/2019

Please see attached NZX shareholder metrics for March 2019.