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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.

CFTC Commissioner Berkovitz To Speak At Princeton University

Date 02/04/2019

Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency Releases CRA Evaluations For 25 National Banks And Federal Savings

Date 02/04/2019

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of March 1, 2019 through March 31, 2019.  The list contains only national banks, federal savings associations, and insured federal branches of foreign banks that have received ratings.  The possible ratings are outstanding, satisfactory, needs to improve, and substantial noncompliance.

CFTC Commissioner Quintenz To Participate In Panel at Eurofi High Level Seminar 2019

Date 02/04/2019

IIROC-Regulated Investment Firms Increase Cybersecurity Preparedness - Survey Results Show Improvement In Training, Incidence Response Plans And Third-Party Risk Assessment

Date 02/04/2019

Canadian investment firms have taken concrete steps to put in place appropriate cybersecurity measures to manage threats and protect their clients and businesses, according to a survey completed by all firms regulated by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC).