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HKEX Sets Launch Date For New Securities Trad

Date 23/01/2018

• OTP-C will replace AMS/3.8 on Monday, 5 February
• New system to initially support up to 60,000 order transactions per second
• OTP-C completes a major investment programme to transform HKEX’s securities market infrastructure

Tokyo Financial Exchange: Solicitation Of Market Maker For Packs And Bundles

Date 23/01/2018

TFX will add Packs and Bundles functions as trading strategies of Three-month Euroyen futures on February 26, 2018 and would like to solicit Market Maker.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange: Direct Financing Scale Expands Steadily With Its Ability To Serve Real Economies Reaching A New Level

Date 23/01/2018

In 2017, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (“SZSE”) earnestly implemented the Party and state policies and guidelines, actively served and engaged in the national development strategy in accordance with the decisions and deploy of Party Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission (“CSRC “) to focus on supply-side structural reform, constantly raised the ability of direct financing and perfected market cultivation service system. By increasing support towards technology innovative venture and taking effort in pushing reforms in quality, efficiency and momentum of economic development, SZSE achieved positive progress in enlarging direct financing scale, promoting enterprise transformation and upgrading, realizing innovation-driven development, serving the national “Belt and Road” Initiative and other aspects, and further lifted multi-layer capital market’s ability to serve the real economies.

Openlink Wins Central Banking Award 2018, Leading Among Risk Management Services Providers For Second Straight Year

Date 23/01/2018

Openlink, the global leader in trading, treasury and risk management solutions for the energy, commodities, corporate and financial services industries, has won, for the second year in a row, the prestigious Central Banking Award 2018 in the category of "Risk Management Services Provider of the Year."

FICO Partners With 4most Europe To Accelerate Banks' Regulatory Compliance

Date 23/01/2018

Highlights:

• 4most Europe will help FICO customers deploy and get rapid value from FICO® Decision Central™ software for analytic model governance.
• FICO has built Decision Central frameworks, in collaboration with 4most, for Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) Basel approach and the European's Central Bank's Target Review of Internal Models (TRIM).

New EDHEC Survey On Equity Factor Investing Calls Risk Techniques Into Question

Date 23/01/2018

In a new survey conducted among investment professionals between June and September 2017, EDHEC-Risk Institute and ERI Scientific Beta have analysed the interests and motivations for investing in new forms of equity factor strategies. The 114 respondents together have at least USD 2.5 trillion in AUM and span all regions of the world (52% from Europe, 28% from North America and 20% from other parts of the world). In one of the more striking findings in the survey, there is a contradiction between score-based factor design choices and the statistical beta-based risk analysis. Analysis of the extreme risk of factor portfolios is still fairly basic and does not really allow the extreme risks to be appreciated.

Luxembourg Stock Exchange Partners With China’s Agricultural Development Bank (ADBC) To Expand The Green Bond Market

Date 23/01/2018

• The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC), the second largest policy bank in China.
• The purpose of the MoU is to set up an access scheme to display ADBC’s green, poverty alleviation and sustainability bonds on the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) platform.
• International investors will gain access to detailed information in English about Chinese green bonds issued by ADBC, traded on the Chinese Interbank Market (CIBM) and accessible through the Bond Connect scheme. 

Deutsche Börse AG: Release Of Capital Market Information

Date 23/01/2018

In the period from 12 January 2018 to, and including, 19 January 2018, Deutsche Börse AG purchased a number of 93,827 shares within the framework of its ongoing share buy-back program which had been announced by theannouncement of 22 November 2017 pursuant to Art. 5 (1) lit. a) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and Art. 2 (1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052.

Moscow Exchange: The Additional Trading Session Starts Later For Derivatives On 1, 8, 14, 15, 22 And 26 February 2018

Date 23/01/2018

Please note that the Derivatives Market evening trading session will begin five minutes later, i.e. at 7:05 pm MSK, on 1, 8, 14, 15, 22 and 26 February 2018, as these are the last trading days for options contracts (in accordance with clause 7.2 of the Rules of organized trading for the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market).

Dalian Commodity Exchange Continuously Strengthens Regulatory Cooperation

Date 23/01/2018

Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) has signed regulatory cooperation memorandums with all the 38 agencies of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), including 36 local bureaus and 2 commissioner offices of the CSRC. Over the years, DCE and the agencies of the CSRC have successfully investigated and cracked down on a number of violation cases through coordinated regulation and joint inspection. The typical violation cases in the futures market investigated and treated through the collaboration of DCE and the agencies of the CSRC included the case of price manipulation on Blockboard 1502 Contract, the case of fabricating and spreading false information about the egg futures and so on.