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Better Finance: Are All Bank Investors Treated Equally By EU Member States?

Date 21/04/2016

The first bail-in under new European rules has taken place. A little more than a week ago Heta Asset Resolution’s bondholders had no choice but to take their losses, as the Austrian regulator ordered for 54% of its debts – 100% in the case of junior (subordinated) bonds -  to be written off. Bondholders will also no longer receive interests from the bank.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters For New Bonds

Date 21/04/2016

New bonds will be accepted to margin trading starting from April 22, 2016. From this date on, the following risk parameters will be applied:

Qatar Stock Exchange Sets The Listing Of Qatar First Bank On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 & Shareholders Data Available At Brokerage Firms By Sunday, April 24, 2016

Date 21/04/2016

Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) is pleased to announce that based on the approval of Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA), the listing of Qatar First Bank (QFB) will be on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.  The decision to list QFB on QSE resulted after the bank has fulfilled and complied with all necessary listing requirements. With the listing of QFB, the number of listed companies on QSE will increase to 44.

Stellar Trading Systems Establishes Connectivity With CBOE Futures Exchange - Link Broadens CFE’s Reach With European, Asian Traders

Date 21/04/2016

CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE®) today announced that Stellar Trading Systems, a multi-asset trading software and services specialist, has established connectivity with CFE as an approved independent software vendor (ISV).

MGEX Records Top 25 Daily Electronic Volume

Date 21/04/2016

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), reports an electronic volume of 15,341 from Wednesday, making it the 24th-best day on the electronic daily volume charts.  

OpenBondX Electronic Trading Platform Rolls Out New Rebate - Fee Structure For Fixed-Income Trading - Rebates And Low Responder Pricing Designed To Attract Liquidity And Incentivize All Market Participants

Date 21/04/2016

Recently-launched electronic bond-trading venue OpenBondX, LLC (www.openbondx.com) is implementing an innovative pricing strategy that previously has helped transform other markets.

Testimony On Continued Oversight Of The SEC’s Offices And Divisions - Mark J. Flannery, Director And Chief Economist, Division Of Economic And Risk Analysis, Marc Wyatt, Director, Office Of Compliance Inspections And Examinations, Thomas J. Butler, Director, Office Of Credit Ratings, Sean Mckessy, Chief, Office Of The Whistleblower, Before The U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Financial Services Subcommittee On Capital Markets And Government Sponsored Enterprises, Washington, D.C. , April 21, 2016

Date 21/04/2016

Chairman Garrett, Ranking Member Maloney, and Members of the Subcommittee:

Thank you for your invitation to testify on behalf of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) about the responsibilities and recent activities of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA), the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), the Office of Credit Ratings (OCR), and the Office of the Whistleblower (OWB). 

Thomson Reuters Helps Traders Quickly Predict Intraday Prices In High Speed Power Market - New Intraday Power App Combines Supply And Demand Forecasts, REMIT Messages And Weather Forecasts To Generate Real Time Intraday Price Impacts For European Power Exchange

Date 21/04/2016

Thomson Reuters is providing energy traders with comprehensive analysis of the intraday European power market via a new app on its flagship desktop platform Eikon. The tool helps energy companies manage their delivery commitments efficiently by generating intraday predictions for price drivers on the European Power Exchange (EPEX). The service does this by combining supply and demand forecasts with translated REMIT messages and up-to-the-hour weather forecasts to provide the consolidated analysis that enables market participants to make better-informed trading decisions quickly in fast-moving short-term markets.

Thai Bourse Announces New Board Governors

Date 21/04/2016

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has announced the new appointment of its board governors as two governors were re-elected by its member companies, while appointing a new governor to replace the current governor whose term ends on May 27, 2016, at the member companies’ annual general meeting on April 21, 2016.

OpenFin Works With ICAP Global Broking To Deploy Its Next Generation Fusion Desktop Offering

Date 21/04/2016

OpenFin, today announced that it has provided ICAP Global Broking with its industry leading HTML5 container technology, which will be used with ICAP's next generation Fusion Desktop platform.