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Thomas Texier Named Managing Director, R.J. O’Brien Limited - Company And Industry Veteran To Lead UK Affiliate Of R.J. O’Brien & Associates

Date 30/01/2017

Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, today announced the promotion of Thomas Texier to the new role of Managing Director of its London-based affiliate, R.J. O’Brien Limited (RJO Limited). 

ESMA Advocates Common Principles For Setting Up Share Classes In UCITS Funds

Date 30/01/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today issued an Opinion on the extent to which different types of units or shares (share classes) of the same UCITS fund can differ from one another, having found diverging approaches in different EU countries.

EEX Opens Its 15th Global Office In Madrid

Date 30/01/2017

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is now offering an improved service to its Iberian members with the opening of its Madrid office. Brigitte Caboulet who has played a key role in the recent rapid growth of EEX market share in Spain will be joined by Alvaro Reyes Diaz in servicing the local market needs. 

New Data Service Brings Transparency To Structured Products For The First Time - Contineo Launches Data Products To Inform Financial Service Providers And Market Participants About The Structured Product Market

Date 30/01/2017

Contineo, the network serving the wealth management industry, launched I/O, a suite of data products illuminating the market for equity-linked structured products. This is the first time such a large amount of data has been collated and analyzed to provide subscribers on the network insight into their business and performance, and provide other market participants with insight into this previously opaque market.

Moscow Exchange: Change In The List Of Assets Accepted As A Contribution To Guarantee Fund And Stress Collateral

Date 30/01/2017

NCC Bank starts to accept the following Russian sovereign eurobonds as a contribution to Guarantee fund and Stress Collateral starting from February 01, 2017:

Abu Dhabi Global Market Partners With Temenos On Fintech Innovation Jam, Abu Dhabi 2017

Date 30/01/2017

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre in Abu Dhabi, continues to develop the regional FinTech ecosystem by bringing in and supporting initiatives such as the Temenos Innovation Jam event series; taking place in Abu Dhabi at ADGM on March 7th, 2017.

ESMA Letter On EMIR Review And Sanctioning Powers To The European Commission

Date 30/01/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has written to the European Commission (EC) to ask it to consider a number of issues relating to its supervisory and sanctioning powers under EMIR, in the context of the ongoing review, and also similar issues related to credit rating agencies (CRAs).

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions And Euroland IR Partner To Provide Enhanced Features For Investor Relations Websites

Date 30/01/2017

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions announces its partnership with Euroland IR to offer investor relations (IR) professionals worldwide with enhanced features for their IR websites. The partnership was formalized in December 2016 and brings comprehensive stock quotes, interactive charting and other IR website modules to thousands of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions clients across EMEA, Asia and the Americas. This upgrade for clients is already underway and follows the release of Nasdaq’s next generation IR website platform powered by Drupal 8 open source technology.

SIX Swiss Exchange: Launch Of Ethos Swiss Corporate Governance Index

Date 30/01/2017

Stuttgart And Stockholm United Through Market Leadership - Nordic Growth Market And Boerse Stuttgart Are The Leading Exchanges For Securitised Derivatives In Scandinavia And Germany

Date 30/01/2017

Boerse Stuttgart and its Scandinavian subsidiary, Nordic Growth Market, account for one third of the European order volume in exchange trading with securitised derivatives. This is shown by the turnover statistics of the two exchanges for Germany, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. In 2016 NGM recorded around 3.1 million customer orders for securitised derivatives with a total volume equivalent to more than EUR 10.2 billion. “NGM therefore continues to be the clear market leader in the growth market of Scandinavia,” says Ralph Danielski, spokesperson of the Management Board of Boerse Stuttgart GmbH. In Scandinavia NGM's Nordic Derivatives Exchange (NDX) trading segment has a market share of more than 60 percent.