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  • 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.

  • ELITE Partners With Monsha’at (Saudi Small & Medium Enterprises Authority) To Launch ELITE Saudi Arabia

    Date 05/02/2018

    • ELITE and Monsha’at (Saudi Small & Medium Enterprises Authority) partner to launch business support & capital raising programme in Saudi Arabia  
    • First ELITE partnership in the Middle East, following launches in Brazil and China in 2017
    • Kingdom unveils first group of ELITE Saudi companies
    • Demonstrates LSEG’s commitment to strengthening ties with capital markets across the MENA region  

  • Eurex Clearing: Successful Start Of Partnership Program

    Date 05/02/2018

    Eurex Clearing, one of the world’s leading Central Counterparties (CCP) and part of Deutsche Börse Group, notes a strong increase in demand for its OTC clearing services. In January, the Average Daily Volume cleared in the OTC interest rate segment increased by factor seven to 35 billion Euro from 5 billion Euro in 2017. "We are very pleased that our partnership program is gaining broad market support", says Eurex Clearing CEO Erik Müller.