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TOCOM: Regarding The Trading Halt On November 11, 2016

Date 01/12/2016

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange reiterates apologies for causing inconvenience to market participants and related parties when the Exchange suspended night session on November 10th, 2016 from 3:15 a.m. onward, and morning session between 10:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

UK's Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Decision Notice Against Alistair Burns Deciding To Ban Him And Fine Him £233,600

Date 01/12/2016

The Financial Conduct Authority has today published a Decision Notice in respect of Alistair Burns, Chief Executive at TailorMade Independent Limited (TMI).

Naga Group And Deutsche Börse Form The Joint Venture Switex

Date 01/12/2016

• Switex to create the first standardized and independent market for trading virtual game items
• Naga to manage Switex based on its technological leadership while Deutsche Börse Group to supply market expertise

SGX Freight Monthly Report – November 2016

Date 01/12/2016

• SGX freight derivative volumes totaled 57,091 contracts in November (+53% m/m; +40% y/y), while open interest averaged 94,559 contracts during the month (-5% m/m; +39% y/y).

Collaboration Between Securities Commission Malaysia And MIMOS On Big Data Capability In Capital Market

Date 01/12/2016

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MIMOS, the country’s research and development centre in ICT, to jointly develop a capital market advanced analytics platform.

Neil Mcdonald Appointed OANDA Head Of Trading

Date 01/12/2016

OANDA, a global leader in online multi-asset trading services, has announced that Neil McDonald has joined the firm as Global Head of Trading and Quantitative Analytics. Based in New York, Neil will be responsible for driving the strategic growth of OANDA’s electronic trading business as well as leading the global trading, quantitative analytics, and research groups.

enepath And Insightful Technology Partner To Provide Revolutionary New Solution For Trade Reconstruction And Global Compliance - Complete Capture, Integration And Retrieval Of Voice And Data Across The Trading Lifecycle

Date 01/12/2016

enepath, the voice trading and communications specialist, and Insightful Technology (Insightful), compliance solutions specialists, have partnered to provide a seamless means of integrating voice trading with all other trading data. The collaborative solution combines Insightful’s Soteria™, the leading multimedia capture, analytics, proactive monitoring, and case reconstruction platform, with enepath’s Eclipse™ trader voice product suite. The Eclipse™ suite includes the latest trading turret and high definition (HD) integrated voice recording technology, and is delivered and supported worldwide in cooperation with global partner, Telstra.

UK's Financial Conduct Authority Publishes New Data On Savings Interest Rates And Announces New Rules Coming Into Effect

Date 01/12/2016

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the third and final ‘sunlight remedy’ data set, showing the lowest interest rates available from 32 providers of cash savings accounts and easy access cash ISAs. This is part of the FCA’s work to shine a light on firms’ strategies towards their long-standing customers. The sunlight remedy is one element of a broader package of measures aimed at delivering better outcomes for customers of cash savings accounts. 

Moscow Exchange: Final Settlement Price Of RUONIA Futures Contracts

Date 01/12/2016

On 30 November 2016, the final settlement price was determined for the RUONIA futures contracts (RUON-11.16) at 90.02

FI’s Capital Assessment Method For Securitisation Within Pillar 2

Date 01/12/2016

Finansinspektionen (FI) believes that securitisation can give rise to risks that are not considered in current regulation. FI is therefore submitting for consultation today the method it intends to use to assess banks’ capital requirement within Pillar 2 for flowback risks during securitisation.