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Ugandan Regulator Partners With CISI To Enhance Practitioner Knowledge And Help Promote Capital Market Confidence

Date 12/07/2018

The Ugandan Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has announced the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) as one of its key partners in ensuring its practitioners are qualified to global best practice standards.

The Financing Structure Of Spanish Large Listed Companies Comes Closer To The Anglo-Saxon Model

Date 12/07/2018

• Over the last 7 years the Spanish listed companies have reduced their debt and increased their market-based financing
• The equity of the IBEX 35’s non-financial institutions increased by 27%
• Financing via Fixed Income rose by 28% to 116 billion at the end of 2017

ESMA Updates Q&AS On Temporary Product Intervention Measures

Date 12/07/2018

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its Questions and Answers on ESMA’s temporary product intervention measures on the marketing, distribution or sale of CFDs and binary options to retail clients based on Article 40 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 (the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, MiFIR).

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index Slips On Trade War Anxiety, Down 0.8% In June, Down 3.3% In Q2, Up 16.9% Over 12 Months

Date 12/07/2018

The FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index remained in negative territory in June on fears of an escalation in the international trade conflict with the United States.

Interest Rate Benchmark Reform: Transition To A World Without LIBOR - Speech By Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive Of The FCA, At Bloomberg, London - On Transitioning From LIBOR To Alternative Interest Rate Benchmarks

Date 12/07/2018

Highlights

• Why firms need to end their reliance on LIBOR by end-2021.
• Why overnight risk-free rates (RFRs) are the right foundation for interest rate markets.
• The progress made on transition to these overnight risk-free rates and the work that remains to be done.

More Than 1,300 ETFs On Xetra - iShares Lists New Bond ETF With Investment-Grade Government Bonds And Equity ETF With A Focus On Sustainability - 115 Listings Since January

Date 12/07/2018

With the two new iShares ETFs launched on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt today, the number of products listed in the ETF segment of Deutsche Börse has exceeded the 1,300 mark for the first time. Since the beginning of the year alone, there have been 115 new listings.

SGX Welcomes Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited As Securities Trading Member

Date 12/07/2018

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Hong Kong-based brokerage firm, Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited, to its securities market as a trading member.

ESMA Reminds UK-Based Regulated Entities About Timely Submission Of Authorisation Applications

Date 12/07/2018

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is issuing this Public Statement in order to raise the awareness of all market participants on the importance to prepare for the possibility of no agreement in the context of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union. As there is no assurance that a transition period will be agreed upon, entities need to consider the scenario where a hard Brexit would take place on 30 March 2019.

FSB Issues Statement On Reforms To Interest Rate Benchmarks

Date 12/07/2018

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has today published a statement on reforms to interbank offered rates (IBORs) and the development of overnight risk-free, or nearly risk-free, rates (RFRs) and term rates. The statement is intended to provide market participants and other stakeholders with the FSB’s views ahead of a forthcoming consultation by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) which contemplates fall backs for certain derivative contracts based on overnight RFRs.

Torstone Announces Global Agreement With ITI Capital

Date 12/07/2018

Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that ITI Capital, the brokerage and investment house for institutional investors and private clients, offering multi-asset agency execution services, has signed a multi-year agreement to utilise Torstone’s award-winning post-trade processing platform, Inferno.