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ESMA Updates MIFID II/ MIFIR Investor Protection Q&A

Date 06/06/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has added 14 new Q&As to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR). The new Q&As cover the topics of ‘information on costs and charges’, ‘post-sale reporting’, and ‘appropriateness’.

ESMA Launches Selection Procedure For Policy Officers

Date 06/06/2017

ESMA is organising a selection procedure to recruit Policy Officers, and establish a list of suitable candidates, which can be employed across ESMA. In particular, ESMA is looking for candidates for the following departments:

•  Investors & Issuers Department and
•  Markets Department.

Solactive Releases Deep Value Index Family - Licensed To BNP Paribas As The Underlying Indices For Structured Products

Date 06/06/2017

In an effort to respond to the increasing demand for fundamental indexing strategies, Solactive is introducing the Solactive Deep Value Index family. This family encompasses four indices created around a deep value screening methodology which combines fundamental filters of stock selection with specific volatility and dividend filters. The indices included in the family offer exposure to targeted geographic regions.

IQE Becomes First Isle Of Man Member Of TISE

Date 06/06/2017

Isle of Man-based IQE Securities Sponsor Services Limited has been approved as a Listing Member of The International Stock Exchange (TISE).

AML Requirement Responsible For £4billion In Bank Fines Automated In Ground-Breaking ‘First’ By Big Data Specialist

Date 06/06/2017

• Regular customer transaction audits - often known as ‘Account Activity Reviews (AARs)’ - are frequently manual, paper-based and chronically inefficient
• Fortytwo Data estimates automated smart analysis of client accounts could have prevented more than £4bn of banking fines since 2000
• To plug this hole, Fortytwo Data has launched what it believes to be the first automated product using big data and machine learning to bring AAR into the 21st Century

Investor Activity On GPW Group Markets – May 2017

Date 06/06/2017

• Increase of the value of trade in equities on the Electronic Order Book1 on the Main Market by 73.5% YoY to PLN 21.7 billion
  
• Average daily value of trade in equities on the Electronic Order Book at PLN 1.0 billion (+65.3% YoY)
  
• Increase of the volume of trade in futures by 26.0% YoY to 671.4 thousand contracts
  
• Increase of the total value of trade in bonds on TBSP by 67.7% YoY to PLN 45.6 billion
  
• Increase of the volume of spot transactions in gas by 45.9% YoY to 1.8 TWh
  
• Increase of the volume of trade in property rights from certificates of origin by 31.8% to 8.1 TWh2

FTSE4Good Semi-Annual Review June 2017

Date 06/06/2017

• 77 new companies to be added to the FTSE4Good Global Index
• 18 new companies from the Industrials sector; 16 Consumer Services companies
• 13 new Japanese firms enter the index
• 62 Companies added to the FTSE4Good Emerging Markets Index
• IBM, 3M Company and Colgate-Palmolive among the firms to join the index       

Rival Systems Introduces Mobile App For Rival Risk - Award-Winning Risk Management Platform Now Optimized For Mobile Phones

Date 06/06/2017

Rival Systems (Rival), an award-winning provider of trading and risk management software, today announced the introduction of a secure mobile app for the firm’s Rival Risk platform.  The app, available for iOS and Android-based phones, is designed to optimize the functionality of the risk management platform for users who need access to their data from anywhere at any time.

Moscow Exchange Risk Parameters Change

Date 06/06/2017

FX and precious metals market

NCC Clearing Bank is changing inter-asset spread discount on FX market starting from June 14, 2017:

Securities market

NCC Bank is changing risk parameters on Securities market starting from June 14, 2017 according to the list attached:

EEX Group Supports Freight Industry By Creating Wholesale Move To New C5TC Benchmark - Only Exchange To Transfer All C4TC Positions To Equivalent C5TC Positions In Dry Freight FFAs

Date 06/06/2017

EEX Group has successfully implemented an initiative to move all C4TC positions to the equivalent C5TC positions, thereby closing all open interest in existing C4TC contracts.