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MIAX Options Holiday Schedule - Thanksgiving 2016

Date 14/11/2016

Please be advised the MIAX Options Exchange will be closed on Thursday, November 24, 2016 in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.  

SimCorp Partners With Cassini Systems To Enhance Its Front Office Offering

Date 14/11/2016

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, and Cassini Systems, a provider of pre-trade analytics solutions for OTC trading,today announced a partnership to offer SimCorp clients access to Cassini’s analytics solution through SimCorp’s flagship platform, SimCorp Dimension. The partnership will help firms that use derivatives to improve their assessment of the total cost of trade to make more informed investment decisions.

Ullink And Alpha Omega Join Forces To Deliver FIX-Based Post Trade Processing To The Buy-Side - Strategic Partnership Offers Allocation And Post-Trade Matching As A Service To NYFIX Buy-Sides

Date 14/11/2016

Ullink, the global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, and Alpha Omega, an innovator in post-trade technology, today announced a strategic partnership focusing on post-trade services for the buy-side. The partnership results in a combined offering, NYFIX Matching, which integrates Alpha Omega’s suite of post-trade solutions with NYFIX’s connectivity and FIX infrastructure for trading.

Tehran Stock Exchange: Dr. Hassan Ghalibaf Asl Re-Elected Chief Executive

Date 14/11/2016

In the first session of the new board of directors meeting at Tehran Stock Exchange, Dr. Hassan Ghalibaf Asl was re-elected as the Exchange’s chief executive for the fifth consecutive term.

Smart Contracts Pioneer Symbiont Fortifies Board Of Directors - Appoints Former SEC Commissioner Gallagher And Former T.Rowe Price President Ruppert

Date 14/11/2016

Symbiont has appointed former SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher and Todd Ruppert, former CEO and President of T.Rowe Price Global Investment Services, to its Board of Directors. These appointments contribute a blend of capital markets management and regulatory expertise to the start-up’s expanding cabinet of industry veterans.

Securities And Exchange Board Of India Visit To Tehran Stock Exchange

Date 14/11/2016

On Monday 14 November 2016, the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India paid a visit to the Tehran Stock Exchange.

Effectiveness And Proportionality: Our Financial Crime Priorities - Speech By Rob Gruppetta, Head Of The Financial Crime Department At The FCA, At The FCA Financial Crime Conference

Date 14/11/2016

Highlights

• It is crucial that we work together across industry, regulators and government to fight financial crime.
• We know that there are unintended consequences of the anti-financial crime regime and we want these to be minimised wherever possible.
• We take a risk-based approach to regulation and focus our efforts where we think the risk is greatest.

PwC Launches New Fintech Capability Called ‘Vulcan Digital Asset Services’

Date 14/11/2016

PwC has today launched a new fintech capability called Vulcan Digital Asset Services to enable digital assets to be used for everyday banking, commerce and other personal currency and asset related services.

Ibdar Launches Parallel Shari’ah Trade Finance Fund

Date 14/11/2016

Bahrain-based wholesale Islamic Investment bank, Ibdar Bank, has announced the launch of the Barak Ibdar Shari’ah Trade Finance Fund, a parallel fund of the highly successful Barak Trade Finance Fund.

Moscow Exchange: Final Settlement Of Brent Derivatives In December 2016, February And May 2017

Date 14/11/2016

Due to public holidays in Russia, the final settlement date of the January Brent oil futures contracts (BR-1.17) will be changed to 30 December 2016, instead of 2 January 2017. The date will be changed technically after 1 December 2016 when the December Brent oil futures contracts (BR-12.16) expire.