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Solactive And Candriam Team Up To Launch The Factors Sustainable Index Family - Providing The Underlying Indices For Five Etfs Issued By Candriam

Date 28/06/2017

Solactive and Candriam have joined forces to launch the Solactive Candriam Factors Sustainable Index Family offering exposure to companies with sustainable and responsible investing criteria as determined by Candriam’s SRI screening methodology. The family is composed of five fundamentally-weighted indices with factor tilts, including three equity and two fixed-income indices, which are used as the basis for five new ETFs issued by Candriam and trading on the Paris Euronext Stock Exchange (and cross-listed on Amsterdam Euronext).

Millennium Exchange Release 9.2 Oslo Børs – Adaption To MiFID II - Clarification

Date 28/06/2017

The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway and others have indicated that MiFID II will not be implemented into Norwegian legislation by 3 January 2018. However, in any case Oslo Børs, will implement the adaptions to the trading systems, as previously announced. 

NEX Optimisation’s triReduce Compression Service Surpasses $1 Quadrillion In Notional Principal Eliminated By Market Participants

Date 28/06/2017

NEX Optimisation, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, announces today that participants in its triReduce compression service have eliminated over $1 quadrillion (1,000 trillion) in OTC derivative notional principal since its introduction in 2003. 

The UK Quoted Companies Alliance: Corporate Reputation Gaining Value As Key Asset, Say Growth Companies

Date 28/06/2017

Almost all companies (99%) see corporate reputation as important to their business, while 68% feel the importance of reputation is increasing. This is a view shared by their advisers, with 92% seeing corporate reputation as important and 78% saying its importance is increasing.

Finance After Fintech: Autonomous Research Lays Out Blueprint For financial industry 2030 In "Future Vision" Analysis

Date 28/06/2017

Autonomous Research, a global research firm focused on financial services, announced today at the Money 20/20 Europe conference the release of a publication giving strategic guidelines for financial incumbents, B2C and B2B startups, and high-technology companies competing in the Fintech economy. Key themes are banks-as-a-platform, Fintech startup funding and feasibility, and the "attention economy" in which Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon compete.

ETFGI Reports Assets Invested In ETFs And ETPs Listed In Europe Reach A New Record Of 682 Billion US Dollars At The End Of May 2017

Date 28/06/2017

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe reached a new record high of US$682 billion at the end May 2017 surpassing the prior record of US$658 billion set at the end of April 2017, according to ETFGI’s May 2017 global ETF and ETP industry insights report an annual paid for research subscription service (click here to view the ETFGI European listed ETFs/ETPs asset growth chart). 

FinTech Association Of Hong Kong Officially Launches To Power The Local FinTech Community

Date 28/06/2017

The FinTech Association of Hong Kong was officially launched last night to champion an open, inclusive and diverse FinTech community in Hong Kong.  The launch event was attended by over 300 guests from across the local FinTech, financial and wider business community.  The Association is an independent, not-for-profit, member-driven association that draws its members from across the FinTech and wider financial industry.

CME Obtains Regulatory Clearance To Launch OTC FX Options Clearing

Date 28/06/2017

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today it has received regulatory clearance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide clearing services for over-the-counter FX options.   

World Economic Forum - China’s Belt And Road Initiative: A Powerful Vision In An Increasingly Fragmented World

Date 28/06/2017

• The most ambitious infrastructure project in the world, China’s One Belt, One Road initiative will connect more than 60% of the world’s population and 30% of global GDP, and touch the lives of millions cut off from the global mainstream
• In a world that feels increasingly fragmented, the One Belt, One Road Vision will secure Asia’s economic security for 20-25 years
• For more information about the meeting, please visit: http://wef.ch/amnc17

Dalian Commodity Exchange Takes Measures To Deepen Integration Of Futures Market And Real Economy

Date 28/06/2017

On June 16, the "2017 China International Conference on Iron and Steel Financial Derivatives" was held in Shanghai. When addressing the conference, Wang Fenghai, CEO of Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), said that in the last five years DCE has seen the market trading volume keep an average annual growth rate of 25%, and the market has withstood a variety of tests, with the market operation in a stable and orderly way. Secondly, the market liquidity has remained at a reasonable level. In 2016 the average daily open interest on DCE accounted for 46% of the total in the domestic futures market, with the open interest of the corporate clients taking up 44% of the total on DCE. Thirdly, the correlation for the futures and spot prices of the products listed on DCE has maintained the high level. In 2016, the correlation coefficients for the futures and spot prices of the ferrous products including coking coal, metallurgical coke and iron ore stood at 0.98, 0.97 and 0.96 respectively. The correlation coefficients of the futures prices at home and abroad for the internationalized products of iron ore and palm oil reached 0.96 and 0.91 respectively.