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  • Openlink Wins 2017 Treasury Management International Award For Innovation And Excellence In Risk Management

    Date 05/02/2018

    Openlink, the global leader in trading, treasury and risk management solutions for energy, commodities and financial services organizations, has earned the 2017 Treasury Management International (TMI) Award for Innovation & Excellence.  This year's award recognizes Openlink for "Best Risk Management Solution" in the Technology Innovation category.

  • EPEX SPOT And ECC Reduce Lead-Time On Austrian, French And Swiss Intraday Markets

    Date 05/02/2018

    The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and the clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) successfully reduced the lead-time to five minutes before delivery for local Austrian and French contracts, and to 30 minutes before delivery for local Swiss contracts. The lead-time reduction from previously 30 minutes for Austria and France, and from 60 minutes for Switzerland, was implemented on 31 January on the respective continuous markets. The lead-time for cross-border trades remains unchanged at 60 minutes.

  • Bursa Malaysia Announces RM223.0 Million Profit After Tax And Minority Interest (“Patami”) For The Financial Year Ended 31 December 2017

    Date 05/02/2018

    Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or the “Exchange”) today reported a Profit After Tax And Minority Interest (“PATAMI”) of RM223.0 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2017 (“FY2017”), an increase of 15.2% from RM193.6 million reported in the financial year ended 31 December 2016 (“FY2016”). Both cost-to-income ratio and annualised Return On Equity (“ROE”) saw improvements by 2 and 3 percentage points to 45% and 26% respectively. The rise in PATAMI is due to higher operating revenue, which came in at RM522.1 million, a 10.4% increase from a year ago. This is Bursa Malaysia’s highest recorded full year PATAMI since 2007, and highest full year operating revenue since its listing in 2005.

  • Electricity Market Design: Europex Urges Continued Focus On Robust Market Principles

    Date 05/02/2018

    Europex generally welcomes the Council’s General Approach on electricity market design (recasts of the Electricity Regulation and Directive, as published on 20 December 2017) which makes positive steps towards achieving more integrated, liquid and efficient wholesale electricity markets in Europe. Properly functioning energy markets, and the resulting reliable price signals constitute the most effective means to meet the challenges of an evolving energy sector and to deliver energy to European citizens in a reliable, affordable and climate-friendly way.

  • BETTER FINANCE- Willingness Of EU Member States Crucial For Ending Double Taxation Of Investment Income Within The EU

    Date 05/02/2018

    Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, was invited to address the European Commission’s (EC) ‘Public Hearing on a simpler Withholding Tax procedure for Europe’. The EC just released a Code of Conduct on withholding tax aimed at improving the refund and/or relief at source of current withholding taxes (WHT) charged by Member States within the European Union. At the hearing all participants, public and private, agreed that the success factor to transform this Code of Conduct into reality is the willingness of Member States to implement this non-binding document.