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SWIFT Offers 200,000 EUR For FinTech Community To Leverage gpi Platform - SWIFT gpi Industry Challenge Fosters Collaborative Innovation Between Banks And FinTech Companies From Around The World

Date 21/06/2017

SWIFT invites FinTech companies from around the world to develop new overlay services that leverage its SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) platform. SWIFT will provide funding of up to 200,000 EUR for the two winning FinTech finalists of an Industry Challenge. The FinTech winners will work with banks on collaborative innovation concepts that solve additional industry challenges in cross-border payments on top of SWIFT gpi.

Deutsche Börse Cash Market - IPO In Scale: Share Subscription For Noratis AG Started

Date 21/06/2017

• Initial listing in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Scale segment planned for 30 June
• DirectPlace supports company in placing shares

Stock Exchange of Thailand: Merchant Partners Securities Resumes Its Securities And Derivatives Operations From June 26

Date 21/06/2017

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Thailand Futures Exchange PCL (TFEX) announced that Merchant Partners Securities pcl will resume its operations of securities, derivatives, and clearing services for SET and TFEX, from June 26, 2017 onwards, under the same membership number 21.

Quantave Tests First Ever Trade Life-Cycle Infrastructure For The Digital Assets Market - Delivering A Unified Institutional Gateway To Digital Asset Liquidity

Date 21/06/2017

Quantave, the only complete trade life-cycle infrastructure for digital assets, officially entered their closed beta-testing phase today. The infrastructure opens the digital assets market to institutional traders and investors, transforming the way they engage and transact with this dynamic market, whilst ensuring the safety and security of their assets. Quantave is now rigorously testing the model with its initial partners.

Saudi Stock Exchange Named To Watch List For MSCI Emerging Market Index

Date 21/06/2017

The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) is pleased to announce today that it has been named by MSCI to the organization’s Emerging Market Index Watch List. The announcement comes on the heels of a series of market reforms that the Saudi Capital Market has undertaken as part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 economic transformation program, which in part seeks to bring the Saudi market into alignment with its emerging and developed market peers and gain recognition for the country as an indexed emerging market.

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Seeks Feedback On Robo-Advice Exemption

Date 21/06/2017

The FMA is seeking feedback on its proposals to allow entities to provide personalised financial advice generated by a computer programme or algorithm (robo-advice). This would be a temporary measure before new legislation is passed by Parliament.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission On inclusion Of A Shares In MSCI Emerging Markets Index

Date 21/06/2017

MSCI announced today that beginning in June 2018, it will include A shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2016 Shareownership Survey

Date 21/06/2017

2016 Shareownership Survey (Jun. 20, 2017)

SET Cultivates New Generation Of Financial Professionals Via YFO 2017 Project

Date 21/06/2017

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), together with the Thai Listed Companies Association (TLCA), continues to groom new financial professionals for the Thai capital market by organizing the “Young Corporate Financial Officer 2017” (YFO 2017) program for the fourth consecutive year. This project seeks to encourage university students nationwide to choose careers in Investor Relations and as Financial Analysts so as to promote sustainable growth for listed companies and the Thai capital market. 

Robert Evans III Named Deputy Director In SEC’s Division Of Corporation Finance

Date 20/06/2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Robert Evans III has been named Deputy Director in the agency’s Division of Corporation Finance. He will join Deputy Director Shelley Parratt as a senior advisor to the division’s director, William H. Hinman.