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Audacity Capital Selects Beeks Financial Cloud For High Performance Infrastructure Hosting

Date 02/03/2016

Beeks Financial Cloud, a global leader in financial cloud infrastructure with an established track record of providing high performance, low latency solutions, announced today that Audacity Capital, a Dubai‐based proprietary trading firm, has selected Beeks as its connectivity and server hosting solution. Through hosting its infrastructure in Beeks’ cloud solution, Audacity will create a ‘best of both worlds’ structure, with the advantages of a co‐located solution combined with the flexibility and agility of modern cloud computing.

SIX Launches Its New CO:RE Trading Platform – An Advanced System For Repo Transactions

Date 02/03/2016

SIX successfully went live with its new, fully integrated, real-time Repo trading facility – the CO:RE trading platform. This all-new trading facility provides single-point access for over 160 Swiss domestic and international clients to the multi-currency Swiss repo market. The new platform replaces a legacy system with state-of-the-art technology and capabilities. This investment ensures that SIX continues to build upon its expertise in the repo and securities financing business and, as a part of its strategy, further promote the advantages of Switzerland’s financial infrastructure.

PEGAS Trading Volumes In February 2016 - PEGAS Monthly Volumes Exceed 200 TWh For The First Time

Date 02/03/2016

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 228.4 TWh in February 2016, exceeding the 200 TWh threshold for the first time (previous record: 178.2 TWh in January 2016). The increase resulted from volume records on the spot market with 63.9 TWh (previous record: 52.5 TWh in January 2016) and on the futures market with 164.5 TWh (previous record: 125.8 TWh in January 2016).

Green Key Technologies Appoints Paul Christensen As CEO - Former Goldman Sachs Executive And Market Structure Veteran To Lead Award-Winning Voice Workspace Firm To Next Level

Date 02/03/2016

Green Key Technologies, creator of an award-winning voice workspace designed for financial market voice collaboration, announced today the appointment of Paul Christensen, 44, as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. One of the industry's leading experts on global market structure issues, Christensen most recently served as Managing Director and Global Co-head of Goldman Sachs' Principal Strategic Investments team. He has been responsible for conceiving and executing a series of the industry's leading ventures.

Dalian Commodity Exchange: Steel, Iron Ore Prices Record Significant Increases In China

Date 02/03/2016

Since the end of the long holiday of the Spring Festival, the domestic steel market has run in the rising channel for two consecutive weeks, but the sign of retreating has been seen after the surging. The iron ore prices have rose to the record high in four months, but still in a certain range at the low level. The mining giants across the world have successively recorded losses in the iron ore business.

IOSCO Publishes The Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2016

Date 02/03/2016

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published the IOSCO Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2016, which identifies and examines key trends in global financial markets and the potential risks to financial stability.

The First Trade Based On Physical Delivery Of Wheat Futures Contracts Began At Borsa İstanbul VIOP

Date 02/03/2016

Borsa İstanbul VIOP’s physical delivery based wheat contracts Anatolian Red and Durum Wheat began trading on February 25th, 2016.

SGX: Singapore Outperformed Asia Pacific By 6% Over Past 4 Weeks

Date 02/03/2016

• Compared to the FTSE Asia Pacific Index, the STI was 6.0% stronger in performance from the 4 February close through to the 1 March close.
• On 4 February, the price of the STI relative to the price of the FTSE Asia Pacific Index was stretched beyond standard deviations to a five-year low.
• Over the four weeks from 4 February, the strongest five stocks of the STI were Sembcorp Industries, Genting Singapore PLC, Keppel Corporation, Global Logistic Properties and Singapore Technologies Engineering.

FTSE Russell Announces Schedule For Annual Russell Indexes Reconstitution

Date 02/03/2016

FTSE Russell, the global index provider, today announced the 2016 schedule for the annual reconstitution of its Russell indexes. The closely watched annual process, which also includes the Russell global indexes, is designed to capture and reflect market shifts that have occurred in the past year to ensure investors continue to have the most accurate market benchmarks.

SGX Freight Monthly Report – February 2016

Date 02/03/2016

• SGX freight derivative volumes totaled 40,113 contracts in February (-14% m/m; +322% y/y), while open interest averaged a record 98,996 contracts (+19% m/m; +351% y/y).