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Dash And LiquidPoint Complete Merger To Create Dash Financial Technologies

Date 01/03/2017

Dash today announced that it has completed its merger with LiquidPoint (Convergex's Options Trading and Technology business) to create Dash Financial Technologies. Private equity firm GTCR, which facilitated the transaction, is the majority owner of the new firm. 

Turquoise Selects QuantHouse To Extend Turquoise Plato™ Midpoint Matching Services Across Europe

Date 01/03/2017

QuantHouse, the global provider of innovative market data services, trading and infrastructure solutions, today announced that Turquoise® has extended the QuantHouse real-time primary market data feeds to its Turquoise Plato™ midpoint matching services, including the award winning Turquoise Plato Block Discovery™, to cover securities of 18 European countries, including those recently added emerging markets Czech Republic and Hungary.

BME: The Trading Volume On The Spanish Stock Market Reached €45.3 Billion In February

Date 01/03/2017

• The trading volume on the two first months of 2017 reached €101.6 billion
• The trading volume in ETFs in the month of February up 10.7% in relation to the preceding month
• Trading in Stock  Futures and Options goes up 180% and 7%, respectively year-on-year
• New admissions on MARF in January & February reached €529 million, eighteen times up year-on-year

CBOE Holdings Announces Close Of Acquisition Of Bats Global Markets

Date 01/03/2017

• New Leadership Team Introduced
• Integration Website Launched to Highlight Key Corporate Information

Wall Street Horizon-Powered Markit Hub Horizon Goes Live

Date 01/03/2017

Wall Street Horizon today announced that IHS Markit’s new Hub Horizon corporate event data service, which is powered by Wall Street Horizon’s industry-leading event data, has officially launched.

Women In ETFs And Five Partner Organizations Ring The Bell For Gender Equality At 43 Stock Exchanges Globally

Date 01/03/2017

For the 3rd year, a global collaboration across 43 stock exchanges around the world plan to “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality,” to celebrate International Women’s Day 2017 (March 8th). The events are a partnership between Women in ETFs, UN Global Compact, UN Women, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative, IFC, and the World Federation of Stock Exchanges, to raise awareness about the business case for women’s economic empowerment and the opportunities for the private sector to advance gender equality and sustainable development.

GreenKey Appoints Nader Shwayhat As CEO - Veteran FinTech Leader Has Track Record Of Driving Innovation, Building Businesses Based On Real-Time Communications, Trading Workflow

Date 01/03/2017

GreenKey<http://www.greenkeytech.com/>, creator of an award-winning voice platform for financial market participants, announced today the appointment of Nader Shwayhat, 39, as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Research Institutions In The U.S., France And Germany Top The Second Annual Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators Ranking Of Government Research Institutions

Date 01/03/2017

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Germany’s Fraunhofer Society top the Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology. The rankings were compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, and are based on proprietary data and analysis of indicators including patent filings and research paper citations.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Proposes To Standardise Rules For Prescribing Professional Investors

Date 01/03/2017

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today launched a consultation on proposed amendments to the Securities and Futures (Professional Investor) Rules (PI Rules) to allow joint accounts with non-associates and assets held in investment vehicles owned by individuals to be counted in ascertaining whether individuals meet the monetary threshold to qualify as professional investors.

Bursa Malaysia Berhad Announces Appointment Of Directors To Its Subsidiaries

Date 01/03/2017

Bursa Malaysia Berhad announced the appointment of Puan Mazidah binti Abdul Malik as a Director to the Board of Directors of its subsidiaries, Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad and its clearing house, Bursa Malaysia Securities Clearing Sdn Bhd, effective 1 March 2017.