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Options Awarded 2017 SOC2 And SSAE16 Accreditations - Options Managed Platform Continues To Meet Highest Industry Security Standards

Date 06/06/2017

Options, the leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has announced the successful completion of the annual Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II and Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 16 Type II audits. Conducted by an independent auditor, the certifications verify that the system architecture and security controls across the Options platform continue to provide a highly secure, available and private cloud service offering.

Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer - May Sentiment Steady; Producers Favor NAFTA Renegotiations

Date 06/06/2017

Producer sentiment toward the agricultural economy held steady in May, continuing a trend of overall higher optimism, according to the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.

iSTOXX MUTB Japan Quality 150 Index To Underlie Exchange-Traded Funds By Bnp Paribas Asset Management And China Post Global

Date 06/06/2017

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today announced that the iSTOXX MUTB Japan Quality 150 Index has been licensed to BNP Paribas Asset Management and China Post Global to underlie respective exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

ESMA Updates MIFID II/ MIFIR Investor Protection Q&A

Date 06/06/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has added 14 new Q&As to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR). The new Q&As cover the topics of ‘information on costs and charges’, ‘post-sale reporting’, and ‘appropriateness’.

ESMA Launches Selection Procedure For Policy Officers

Date 06/06/2017

ESMA is organising a selection procedure to recruit Policy Officers, and establish a list of suitable candidates, which can be employed across ESMA. In particular, ESMA is looking for candidates for the following departments:

•  Investors & Issuers Department and
•  Markets Department.

Solactive Releases Deep Value Index Family - Licensed To BNP Paribas As The Underlying Indices For Structured Products

Date 06/06/2017

In an effort to respond to the increasing demand for fundamental indexing strategies, Solactive is introducing the Solactive Deep Value Index family. This family encompasses four indices created around a deep value screening methodology which combines fundamental filters of stock selection with specific volatility and dividend filters. The indices included in the family offer exposure to targeted geographic regions.

IQE Becomes First Isle Of Man Member Of TISE

Date 06/06/2017

Isle of Man-based IQE Securities Sponsor Services Limited has been approved as a Listing Member of The International Stock Exchange (TISE).

AML Requirement Responsible For £4billion In Bank Fines Automated In Ground-Breaking ‘First’ By Big Data Specialist

Date 06/06/2017

• Regular customer transaction audits - often known as ‘Account Activity Reviews (AARs)’ - are frequently manual, paper-based and chronically inefficient
• Fortytwo Data estimates automated smart analysis of client accounts could have prevented more than £4bn of banking fines since 2000
• To plug this hole, Fortytwo Data has launched what it believes to be the first automated product using big data and machine learning to bring AAR into the 21st Century

Investor Activity On GPW Group Markets – May 2017

Date 06/06/2017

• Increase of the value of trade in equities on the Electronic Order Book1 on the Main Market by 73.5% YoY to PLN 21.7 billion
  
• Average daily value of trade in equities on the Electronic Order Book at PLN 1.0 billion (+65.3% YoY)
  
• Increase of the volume of trade in futures by 26.0% YoY to 671.4 thousand contracts
  
• Increase of the total value of trade in bonds on TBSP by 67.7% YoY to PLN 45.6 billion
  
• Increase of the volume of spot transactions in gas by 45.9% YoY to 1.8 TWh
  
• Increase of the volume of trade in property rights from certificates of origin by 31.8% to 8.1 TWh2

FTSE4Good Semi-Annual Review June 2017

Date 06/06/2017

• 77 new companies to be added to the FTSE4Good Global Index
• 18 new companies from the Industrials sector; 16 Consumer Services companies
• 13 new Japanese firms enter the index
• 62 Companies added to the FTSE4Good Emerging Markets Index
• IBM, 3M Company and Colgate-Palmolive among the firms to join the index