News Centre

Preconditions For Newcomers To The Swedish Mortgage Market

Date 10/07/2018

Sweden’s traditional bank-based model for granting and financing mortgage loans is challenged by new firms with alternative financing models. 

Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority Grants First Two Licenses In Financial Technology In The Field Of Capital Market To Manafa Capital And Scopeer

Date 10/07/2018

The Capital Market Authority (CMA) announces the approval of the first two trial financial technology licenses to Manafa Capital and Scopeer. The trial licenses will qualify the two companies to provide crowd-funding service in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Office Of Financial Research Update - Comment On A Proposed Rule To Establish A Data Collection Covering Centrally Cleared Funding Transactions In The U.S. Repurchase Agreement (Repo) Market

Date 10/07/2018

The Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research is requesting comment on a proposed rule to establish a data collection covering centrally cleared funding transactions in the U.S. repurchase agreement (repo) market.

The New ALEX Website And App

Date 10/07/2018

EFSF Raises €4 Billion In Two Bond Deals

Date 10/07/2018

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) met most of its third-quarter funding needs on Tuesday, raising €4 billion in a dual-tranche bond deal.
 

UBS MTF Market Notice: Double Volume Cap Update

Date 10/07/2018

Following the publication by ESMA of the latest double volume cap calculations under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFID), UBS MTF will implement a six-month suspension of the Reference Price Waiver ('RPW') for an additional 52 instruments, effective from Wednesday 11 July 2018.

Thomson Reuters And SAP Partner To Simplify Pricing Of Cross-Border Transaction Costs On SAP’s Cloud Platform

Date 10/07/2018

Thomson Reuters today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with SAP to simplify converting cross-border transaction prices into a single currency, no matter where or when the transaction happens. The new SAP Cloud Platform-based solution, called SAP Market Rates Management, offers out–of-the-box connectivity to comprehensive pricing and reference data from the Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk business and is available to SAP customers worldwide.

STOXX Research Monthly Index News June: Trade-Related Anxiety Grows

Date 10/07/2018

Global equity indices fell in June after the US escalated a confrontation with partners around trade tariffs. 

FIA Board Meets In Washington To Discuss Futures Marketplace

Date 10/07/2018

FIA’s board of directors is in Washington this week to meet with regulators and members of Congress to press for policies that promote a fair and competitive landscape for the futures and cleared derivatives industry.  On the agenda will be discussions regarding the unfair treatment of capital rules for cleared derivatives; a call for the Senate to confirm a full complement of commissioners at the CFTC; and implementing cross-border regulation that ensures open access to markets and fair competition.

CME Group And Cheniere Energy, Inc. Reach Agreement To Develop First-Ever Physically Deliverable LNG Futures Contract At Sabine Pass Terminal

Date 10/07/2018

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and Cheniere Energy, Inc., a pioneer in the liquefaction and export of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG), reached an agreement through which CME Group will develop an LNG futures contract with physical delivery to Cheniere's Sabine Pass terminal on the U.S. Gulf Coast.