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HKEX To Introduce Options On Three More Blue Chips On 10 April

Date 16/03/2017

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) will introduce options on Hang Seng Index constituents AAC Technologies, Geely Automotive and Link REIT on Monday, 10 April 2017 to further strengthen its options market.

Card Supplements Vouchers: SIX Payment Services Allows Easy Acceptance Of Sodexo Cards In Restaurants

Date 16/03/2017

SIX Payment Services is the first Austrian acquirer to accept Sodexo cards at its POS-Terminals.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Reprimands And Fines DBS Vickers (Hong Kong) Limited $2 Million For Regulatory Breaches And Internal Control Failures

Date 16/03/2017

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded DBS Vickers (Hong Kong) Limited (DBSVHK) and fined it $2 million for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to under-segregation of client money.

Culture In Financial Institutions: It’s Everywhere And Nowhere - Speech By Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive Of The FCA, At The HKMA Annual Conference For Independent Non-Executive Directors

Date 16/03/2017

Highlights

• A firm’s culture emerges in large part from inputs that are its responsibility.
• It is for firms to ensure that their desired culture is consistent with appropriate conduct outcomes, to identify the drivers of behaviour within the firm and control the risks that these drivers create.
• Culture change in itself is a challenge, and we know it takes time.

Clearstream Monthly Report - TARGET2-Securities Success Needs To Be Followed Up By Full Market Integration

Date 16/03/2017

Enormous amounts of data are inserted into and have to be processed by the European Central Bank’s securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities (T2S) day by day. The system works perfectly. But this does not mean that T2S has already achieved its ultimate goal.

EDHEC-Risk Institute Paper Analyses The Impact Of Transaction Costs On The Performance Of Systematic Equity Strategies

Date 16/03/2017

A new EDHEC-Risk Institute publication entitled “Smart Beta Replication Costs,” conducted as part of the Amundi research chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute on “ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta Investment Strategies”, provides an explicit estimate of the costs applied to a range of Smart Beta strategies and analyses the impact of different implementation rules or stock universes.

ETFGI Reports Assets Invested In ETFs And ETPs Listed In Europe Reach A New Record Of 620 Billion US Dollars At The End Of February 2017

Date 16/03/2017

ETFGI, the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe reached a new record high of US$620 billion at the end February 2017 surpassing the prior record of US$599 billion set at the end of January 2017. 

FMA Files Charges Under The Financial Service Providers (Registration And Dispute Resolution) Act

Date 16/03/2017

The FMA has filed charges against Garry James Patterson in the Christchurch District Court. The FMA alleges Mr Patterson was, or was holding out as being, in the business of providing financial services in contravention of the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008 (FSP Act). The charges relate to various insurance policies between 1 July 2013 and 28 May 2015. The first Court appearance was today.

Investors See Positive Changes To AIM But Companies Need To Ensure That They Stay On Top Of Their Game

Date 16/03/2017

Small and mid-cap fund managers believe the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market has developed to become a genuine alternative to the Main Market, according to a survey published by the QCA. 

iSTOXX MUTB Asia/Pacific Quality Dividend 100 Licensed To Yuanta SITC In Taiwan

Date 16/03/2017

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 Asia/Pacific Quality Dividend 100 has been licensed to Yuanta Securities Investment Trust Company in Taiwan to be used for a passive index fund. This latest index solution represents the sixth such concept co-developed together with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp. (MUTB), the leading Japanese trust bank. Yuanta and MUTB entered into a memorandum of understanding with STOXX in July 2016, to expand the smart-beta footprint in Taiwan.