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LSEG: UnaVista Offers LEI Allocation Service To Help Firms Meet Their Accreditation Requirements

Date 26/07/2016

• LEI Allocation service allows global infrastructure providers to offer LEI service using UnaVista’s technology
• Helps firms tackle operational and regulatory challenges
• LEI Data Management tool enables firms to identify and apply for LEIs for upcoming MiFID II regulation

CISI Partners With University Of Dubai To Provide Internationally Recognised Qualifications - Dubai Students Now Able To Access Internationally Recognised Financial Qualifications

Date 26/07/2016

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), has partnered with the University of Dubai and its Centre of Executive Development to provide internationally recognised financial qualifications to students. This partnership recognises the University of Dubai as the first educational institution in the UAE to partner with CISI, highlighting the growing demand for professionalism in the UAE.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency: First Meeting Of The Working Group On The Financial System Of The Financial System Council

Date 26/07/2016

The Working Group on the Financial System of the Financial System Council will hold its first meeting on July 28th, 2016 as follows.

Moscow Exchange Completes First Stage Of Migration To New Data Centre

Date 26/07/2016

Moscow Exchange has completed the first step to migrate its infrastructure to a new data centre: DataSpace1 became a disaster recovery (DR) site for the Exchange's trading and clearing platforms on 25 July 2016.

Tehran Stock Exchange's AGM In The Eyes Of A Foreigner

Date 26/07/2016

The following note was sent by one of Tehran Stock Exchange’s foreign shareholders after the annual meetings held on 17 July 2016.

Yesterday I had the luck to visit my first yearly shareholder meeting (AGM) of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) in Iran. As a foreigner it was important for me, to see and to understand, how an Iranian shareholder meeting is. We foreigner we talk a lot about Iran, mostly without personal experience and only with the source, somebody said or I heard something.

UK's Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Final Findings Of Credit Card Market Study

Date 26/07/2016

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the final findings of its study of the credit card market, and set out a package of measures, which include a series of industry led proposals, to help consumers take better control of their spending.

United Kingdom Parliament Treasury Committee Update - HBOS Failure: Lessons For The Regulators

Date 26/07/2016

The Treasury Committee publishes 'Review of the reports into the failure of HBOS'. 

SGX Welcomes Katrina To Catalist

Date 26/07/2016

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Katrina Group Ltd (Katrina) to Catalist under the stock code “1A0”.  

ISDA Publishes Hong Kong Clearing Classification Letter

Date 26/07/2016

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has published a new clearing classification letter that will enable counterparties to notify each other of their status for clearing requirements under the Hong Kong mandatory clearing regime.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Market Bulletin 25 July , 2016, Issue 25

Date 26/07/2016

The government has further relaxed rules for foreign investment in the country's four free trade zones (FTZs), much-highlighted test grounds for ongoing economic reforms, according to the central government website on July 19. Foreign investors will be allowed temporarily to fund wholly owned enterprises in a number of fields, including iron and steel, shipping, auto batteries and gas station operations. A total of 18 rules and regulations with 51 items have been revised, with more than 20 of them involving changes from review-and-approval procedure to registration-based process for foreign investment in the Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian FTZs.