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ESMA Publishes Practical Guide To National Rules Across EEA On Major Holdings Notifications Under Transparency Directive

Date 03/02/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Practical Guide to national rules across the European Economic Area (EEA) on major holdings notifications under the Transparency Directive to help market participants navigate the different requirements.

CME Group Chairman And Chief Executive Officer And Chief Financial Officer To Present At Credit Suisse Conference

Date 03/02/2017

CME Group announced today that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy and Chief Financial Officer John Pietrowicz will present at the Credit Suisse 18th Annual Financial Services Forum, on Tuesday, February 7 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

ESMA Publishes 2017 Supervision Plan For CRAs, Trade Repositories And 3rd Country CCPs

Date 03/02/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its Annual Report and Supervision Work Programmes(Report) setting out its main areas of supervisory focus for credit rating agencies (CRAs), trade repositories (TRs), and third country central counterparties (CCPs) in the European Union (EU). The Report also details the actions ESMA has taken in 2016 in carrying out its supervisory role.

FESE Response To ESMA Consultation On Package Transactions

Date 03/02/2017

In its response, FESE argues that the proposal by ESMA would result in a more restrictive pre-trade transparency regime for package orders than for individual transactions. The proposed approach would result in the vast majority of exchange traded derivatives packages being determined as liquid, meaning the waiver could not be applied to them. Furthermore, the proposed methodology concentrates on characteristics of individual components of the package rather than assessing the package as a whole.

Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For 3 February 2017

Date 03/02/2017

A total turnover of 1.153 billion shares worth N8.032 billion in 12,783 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 990.584 million shares valued at N18.823 billion that exchanged hands last week in 14,917 deals.

Irish Stock Exchange: Statistics January 2017

Date 03/02/2017

January 2017 overall market statistics report

January 2017 investment funds statistics

TOM MTF Weekly Statistics Week 05, 2017

Date 03/02/2017

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 05, 2017.

Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency Releases Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test Scenarios For 2017

Date 03/02/2017

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released economic and financial market scenarios that will be used in the upcoming stress tests for covered institutions with more than $10 billion in assets. The supervisory scenarios include baseline, adverse, and severely adverse scenarios, as described in the OCC’s final rule that implement stress test requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (DFA).

Bursa Malaysia Announces RM193.6 Million Profit After Tax And Minority Interest (“Patami”) For The Financial Year Ended 31 December 2016

Date 03/02/2017

CFTC Orders The Royal Bank Of Scotland To Pay $85 Million Penalty For Attempted Manipulation Of U.S. Dollar ISDAFIX Benchmark Swap Rates

Date 03/02/2017

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and settling charges against The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS) for attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark and requiring RBS to pay an $85 million civil monetary penalty. The CFTC Order finds that over a five-year period, beginning in January 2007 and continuing through March 2012 (relevant period), RBS, through the acts of multiple traders, attempted to manipulate the U.S. Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix (USD ISDAFIX), a global benchmark reference in a range of interest rate products. RBS engaged in the unlawful conduct in order to benefit certain derivatives positions it held that were priced or valued off of the USD ISDAFIX benchmark.