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Fidessa Prospector Lands Another Award - Named Best New Product At Fund Technology & WSL Awards

Date 15/02/2017

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that Prospector, its automated liquidity generating module, has been voted Best New Product in the annual Fund Technology & WSL (Wall Street Letter) Awards. These awards recognise and reward providers serving asset managers and institutional traders that have demonstrated new, highly innovative product development over the past 12 months. This is the third industry award win for Prospector since its launch last March.

As market complexity continues to intensify, and the volume of data and its variety of sources continue to rise, a dashboard approach becomes essential to understanding trading workflow and ensuring it is always tuned for optimum results.

Prospector does this by finding trading and crossing opportunities that would otherwise be missed. It monitors live and historical client trading activity, watch lists, shareholdings and other trader defined data sources. It then presents the trader with an optimum list of opportunities that can be fulfilled via telephone or digital outreach. This means that users can identify and, crucially, act upon trading opportunities for their clients, which helps achieve the best possible execution outcomes whilst also helping mitigate unnecessary exchange fees.

Prospector was launched last year as part of Fidessa's Optimized Trading initiative. This strategy is focused on the next generation of sales traders and allowing them to deliver value added services in a highly efficient manner. All these tools are fully integrated within Fidessa's order management system.

James Blackburn, Global Head of Equities Product Marketing for Fidessa, commented: "In today’s complex trading environment, sales traders need to be able to find liquidity in an efficient and timely manner, particularly when handling large client orders. This means bringing together the right information, and making it available in the right way, so that traders can act fast to deliver the very best execution service to their clients. Prospector provides them with an innovative means of uncovering trading and crossing opportunities, right on their desktop. We are delighted to receive another award, as it underlines the value that market participants see in Prospector, in particular the clear and powerful competitive differentiation it delivers."

The award was presented at a gala dinner at 583 Park Avenue in New York last night.

Treasury Department Announces Appointment Of Chief Of Staff

Date 15/02/2017

Newly confirmed Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin announced today the appointment of Eli Miller to serve as the Chief of Staff of the Treasury Department.

Bats Welcomes Global X Funds As A New Issuer To The Bats ETF Marketplace - 27 Issuers, 151 Funds Now Listed On Bats In The U.S.

Date 15/02/2017

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS), the #1 U.S. market for exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading, today welcomed Global X as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace.

Vela Named Best Data Provider For Equities - Recognized In The Fund Technology And WSL Awards For Exceptional Customer Service And Innovative Product Development

Date 15/02/2017

Vela Trading Technologies, a global leader in high performance trading and market data technology, is pleased to announce that its consolidated market data feed was awarded “Best Data Provider – Equities” in the Fund Technology and Wall Street Letter (WSL) Awards. 

MARF Registers A €25 Million Comercial Paper Programme By TEKNIA - Fifteenth Commercial Paper Programme In The Market

Date 15/02/2017

The Mercado Alternativo de Renta Fija (MARF) has registered a Commercial Paper Programme by Teknia Manufacturing Group with a maximum amount of €25 million, which will allow the company to tap the market again while at the same time exploring a new way of pushing forward with its process of growth and diversification of its short-term funding sources, following the €40 million Medium Term Notes Programme listed in MARF last June.

Hermes Pardini Celebrates IPO At BM&FBOVESPA

Date 15/02/2017

On Wednesday, BM&FBOVESPA received Hermes Pardini S.A. to celebrate the diagnostic medicine company’s initial public offering (IPO) and the start of trading of its shares in the Novo Mercado special corporate governance segment (under the PARD3 ticker).

Uri Shavit Joins Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Management As Senior Vice President, CIO And Head Of Information Technology & Operations Department

Date 15/02/2017

The Board of Directors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) approved (Feb. 9, 17) the appointment of Uri Shavit as Senior VP, CIO and Head of Information Technology & Operations Department.

Irish Stock Exchange Commits To Supporting Six Special Charities In 2017 - Charities Chosen For 2017

Date 15/02/2017

• Cycle Against Suicide, a voluntary organisation that aims to break the cycle of suicide in Ireland
• Temple Street Foundation, which raises funds to enable Temple Street Children's University Hospital to continue to provide world-class care to Ireland's sickest children
• The staff and volunteers of St. Francis Hospice, who provide specialist palliative care to the people of North Dublin City and County

Inventiva Lists On Euronext Paris - €48 Million Raised - Market Capitalisation €133 Million

Date 15/02/2017

Euronext today welcomed Inventiva, a biopharmaceutical company specialised in the development of new therapies, particularly for fibrotic diseases, to Compartment C of its regulated market in Paris. 

Opening Remarks Of SEC Acting Chairman Michael Piwowar Before The Sec Advisory Committee On Small And Emerging Companies

Date 15/02/2017

Thank you, Steve and Sara, and good morning everyone.  I have always enjoyed these Advisory Committee meetings and am pleased to be here in my new role as Acting Chairman.  I’d like to extend a special welcome to the newest Committee member, Michele Schimpp, who is representing the Small Business Administration.  We very much appreciate having the SBA’s insights and we look forward to working with Michele.