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S&P Dow Jones Indices - Europe Dashboard

Date 31/05/2018

• In a month when trade tensions and political risk dominated headlines, the S&P Europe 350® managed to eke out a 0.25% monthly gain.
• As uncertainty rose this month, quality-oriented S&P Europe 350 equity strategies came to the fore; Dividend Aristocrats® and Quality led the way.
• Most of our fixed income indices gained this month.  Italian and Spanish sovereign bond indices provided the exceptions.

Cboe To Host 2018 Risk Management Conference Europe In September

Date 31/05/2018

• Cboe to host 7th Annual Cboe Risk Management Conference Europe
• September 12–14 in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland

SEC Charges Investment Banker In Insider Trading Scheme

Date 31/05/2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an employee of a prominent investment bank with repeatedly using his access to highly confidential information in order to place illicit and profitable trades in advance of deals on which the bank was providing investment banking advisory services.

ACER Finds Contractual Congestion In The European Gas Transmission Network

Date 31/05/2018

The Agency published today the fifth edition of the Annual Report on Contractual Congestion at Interconnection Points. Contractual congestion emerges when demand for gas transport capacity at an interconnection point (IP) exceeds the offered capacity. In 2017, such congestion was detected at 17 entry and exit sides across Europe, which is less than 7% of all IP sides.

ESMA Chair Steven Maijoor Addresses ICMA Annual Conference On Benchmark Stability And Integrity

Date 31/05/2018

The Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Steven Maijoor, has delivered a keynote speech on benchmarks – Towards benchmark stability and integrity – at the 50th ICMA AGM and Conference 2018 in Madrid today.

Momentum Continues In Toronto Stock Exchange ETF sector

Date 31/05/2018

• Total assets under management reaches new high of $150 billion as TSX expands its leading roster of providers and listed funds

SGX Reprimands Jason Holdings Limited And Its Former Executive Director And Chief Executive Officer, Mr Jason Sim Chon Ang

Date 31/05/2018

• No change to the constituents of the STI

ESMA Chair, Steven Maijoor, Addresses ICMA Annual Conference On Benchmark Stability And Integrity

Date 31/05/2018

The Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Steven Maijoor, has delivered a keynote speech on benchmarks – Towards benchmark stability and integrity – at the 50th ICMA AGM and Conference 2018 in Madrid today.

HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts

Date 31/05/2018

Reference is made to the circular (Ref.: MO/DT/086/18) dated 4 May 2018, capital adjustments as a result of the Conversion of Capital Reserve into Shares will be made to the positions of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd. (“GAC”) Futures Contracts which exist after the market close on 31 May 2018, i.e. the business day immediately before 1 June 2018. Accordingly, 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, 1 June 2018, the margin levels of the following Futures Contracts shall be as follows:- Client Margin Cleari

FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI June Semi-Annual Review

Date 31/05/2018

• Three changes to the constituents of the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI
• Ten new constituents to be added to FTSE Bursa Malaysia Mid 70 Index
• Three new constituents to be added to FTSE Bursa Malaysia Hijrah Shariah Index