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Thomson Reuters Boosts U.S. Treasury And Interest Rate Swaps Pricing Solutions Through Collaboration With Dealerweb And ICAP - As The Definitive Source For USD Interest Rate Swaps, RCM 19901 Optimizes Price Discovery And Management Of Global Interest Rate Risk

Date 02/08/2018

Thomson Reuters has enhanced its Reuters Capital Markets 19901 (RCM19901) service with pricing sourced through Dealerweb and ICAP, providing its fixed income trading clients with a market-leading global rates offering to further enable their trading decisions. This is the first time that  Tradeweb’s Dealerweb pricing will be available to the market,  delivering robust pricing from leading market makers for the RCM 19901 service. Through this collaboration, Thomson Reuters trading clients will continue to have the same level of access to high quality data.

Intercontinental Exchange To Create Platform To Standardize ETF Primary Market Trading - BlackRock To Be A Development Partner - New Platform Will Simplify ETF Creation/Redemption Process

Date 02/08/2018

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced its intention to launch a new open-architecture, centralized industry platform to facilitate creation and redemption orders for exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This new platform, expected to begin operations in 2019, subject to regulatory approval, will employ innovative functionality and establish standards to simplify the primary market trading process, which will bring more efficiency and transparency to the process. BlackRock will be one of ICE’s development partners and has executed a memorandum of understanding with ICE to support the new platform.

SIX Welcomes New Trading Participant

Date 02/08/2018

Intercontinental Exchange Approves Third Quarter Dividend Of $0.24 Per Share

Date 02/08/2018

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, announced today a $0.24 per share dividend for the third quarter of 2018. The cash dividend is payable on September 28, 2018 to stockholders of record as of September 13, 2018. The ex-dividend date is September 12, 2018.

Net Of Non-Jordanian Investment At Amman Stock Exchange Increased By JD30 Million

Date 02/08/2018

The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors at the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) in July 2018 was JD39.9 million, representing 37.9% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD9.9 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments in July 2018 showed an increase by JD30 million, compared with an increase by JD13 million during the same month of 2017. 

Inaugural Reuters-NABJ Scholarships At New York University And Columbia University Awarded To Arriana McLymore And Akintunde Ahmad

Date 02/08/2018

Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news provider, announced today the winners of two Reuters-National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) scholarships, awarded to Arriana McLymore and Akintunde Ahmad for graduate journalism programs at New York University and Columbia University, respectively. Each student will receive a value of more than $40,000 in tuition and credits for the 2018-2019 academic year funded by Reuters and the universities.

CFTC Announces Multiple Whistleblower Awards Totaling More Than $45 Million

Date 02/08/2018

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced multiple whistleblower awards totaling more than $45 million.  The awards demonstrate the growing success of the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program, in particular the increasing volume and complexity of incoming whistleblower submissions.  Just last month, the CFTC announced an award of approximately $30 million to one whistleblower (see CFTC press release 7753-18, July 12, 2018) and the first award was made by the program to a whistleblower living in a foreign country (see CFTC press release 7755-18, July 16, 2018).  

Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes In July 2018

Date 02/08/2018

Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance for July 2018 and all comparisons are with the same period last year.

MiFID II: ESMA Makes New Bond Liquidity Data Available

Date 02/08/2018

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today made available new data for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR) through its data register. 

Cboe Europe Reports Record Month For Cboe LIS With €6 Billion Notional Traded On Block Trading Platform

Date 02/08/2018

• Record average daily notional value (ADNV) traded of €273 million for Cboe LIS in July, up 21.3% over previous record month 
• 158 buy-side firms globally now utilising the platform