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Former CIO, Multi-Asset Investments At Bank Of Montreal Joins Axioma As Managing Director, Corporate Strategy

Date 18/04/2017

Axioma, a leading provider of enterprise market risk and portfolio management solutions, announced today the appointment of industry veteran George N. Patterson as Managing Director, Corporate Strategy. As part of Axioma’s newly formed Corporate Strategy Team, Patterson will focus on identifying buyside trends and market opportunities to expand the company’s footprint and accelerate growth.

ESG Completes Acquisition Of UK-Based Utiligroup

Date 18/04/2017

Energy Services Group, LLC (ESG), the retail energy industry’s leading provider of SaaS solutions including transaction management (EDI), billing and CIS, wholesale energy services, and sales and pricing, announced today it has acquired UK-based Utiligroup.

Investoo Group Acquires Broker Comparison Site 100ForexBrokers.com

Date 18/04/2017

100ForexBrokers.com, launched in 2012, is one of the world’s biggest Forex broker comparison sites with 60,000+ unique visitors per month and 100s of real user reviews.

Algomi Partners With OpenFin To Bring Open Stack Technology To Fixed Income Markets - MoveTo HTML5 Allows Algomi To Deploy Software And Roll Out Updates Rapidly, Responding To Client Needs And Changing Market Conditions

Date 18/04/2017

Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimization of fixed income liquidity, today announced a partnership with OpenFin, the world’s first common operating layer for financial desktop applications.

Source Sees Investors Continue To Pour Into Commodities

Date 18/04/2017

• $1.3 billion of assets invested into European broad commodity ETFs in first quarter of 2017
• The Source Bloomberg Commodity UCITS ETF is the fastest-growing European ETF of the last five years
• The fund is now available in GBP on London Stock Exchange

DFM Admits SHUAA Capital And Al Ramz Capital As Registered Market Makers And Liquidity Providers

Date 18/04/2017

• Hassan Al Serkal: “New service enables issuers to assign a licensed company to provide liquidity on its shares in order to enhance liquidity and achieve supply and demand balance”
• Jassim Alseddiqi: “SHUAA looks forward to playing a key role in enhancing market liquidity”
• Abdel Hadi Al Sa’di: “Market Making represents an essential function for capital markets to become efficient and more active”      

FlexTrade To Demonstrate Augmented Reality Trading At TradeTech Europe - Breakthrough FlexAR Technology Offers Glimpse Into The Future Of Trading

Date 18/04/2017

FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, is pleased to announce “FlexAR” – an augmented reality trading application offering an extraordinary, new way of visualising and presenting trading via the company’s award-winning FlexTRADER® EMS.

Shanghai Stock Exchange: Notice Of Revision Of Some Articles Related To Bond Trading In “Shanghai Stock Exchange Trading Rules” And “Shanghai Stock Exchange Detailed Rules For Implementation Of Bond Trading”

Date 18/04/2017

Approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has revised some articles related to the collateralized repo of bonds in the “SSE Trading Rules” (the “Trading Rules” for short) and the “SSE Detailed Rules for Implementation of Bond Trading” (the “Detailed Rules” for short), and the specific amendments are as follows:

The FCA Publishes Its Mission And Business Plan

Date 18/04/2017

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its Mission, which gives firms and consumers greater clarity about how the FCA prioritises its interventions in financial markets.

Bursa Malaysia-i Wins Third Award As World’s First End-To-End Shariah-Compliant Investing Platform

Date 18/04/2017

Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia”) today announced that its Bursa Malaysia-i platform was awarded the Gold Medal for The Most Innovative Non-Food & Services Category at the MIHAS Awards 2017 which was held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre recently. This is the third global recognition since Bursa Malaysia-i was launched in September 2016. Bursa Malaysia-i is the world’s first end-to-end Shariah-compliant investing platform.