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Toronto Stock Exchange And TSX Venture Exchange Host Fourth Annual Charity Golf Tournament

Date 14/07/2015

Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange will today host the fourth annual TMX Charity Golf Classic at the University Golf Club in Vancouver, B.C. The tournament has raised nearly $300,000 for the benefitting charities over the past three years.

Recent EU Power Plant Closures Impact Wind, Coal & Nuclear Capacity

Date 14/07/2015

Over the last 18 months, European power markets have faced important changes in market conditions with several power plants shutting down and being replaced by new units. Genscape’s latest blog post, "Recent & Expected European Power Plant Closures & Plant Commissioning," details these changes and how they have impacted wind, coal, and nuclear capacity throughout Europe. 

ACER Announces A Joint Public Event - "A “Bridge To 2025”: Delivering The Energy Union"

Date 14/07/2015

ACER and CEER invite you to their joint event:  "A “Bridge to 2025”: Delivering the Energy Union"on 24 September 2015. The event will be held in Brussels and will also be broadcast live via webstream. The event marks the one-year anniversary of the presentation of the “Energy Regulation: A Bridge to 2025” conclusions paper and aims to take stock of what has been achieved and to look at how the “Bridge” fits together with the European Commission’s Energy Union Strategy. Find out more here. 

Thomson Reuters Enhances Credit Risk Capabilities, Adds Starmine Analytics To DataScope Suite - New Capability Combines Reference Data, Pricing And Analytics To Better Manage Credit Risk Exposure

Date 14/07/2015

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that it has enhanced its credit risk capabilities, by adding StarMine Credit Default models to its DataScope suite, bringing together on one platform reference data, core ratings agency data, pricing and analytics. The Thomson Reuters proprietary StarMine Credit Default models provide data services that enable automated and continuous monitoring and review processes to improve a firm’s ability to predict credit events as early as possible.

BlackRock Tops Institutional Investor Ranking Of America's Largest Money Managers - Vanguard Displaces State Street In The No. 2 Spot; Allianz Falls Owing To PIMCO Losses

Date 14/07/2015

Assets directed by the firms in the II300, Institutional Investor's annual ranking of the nation's largest money managers, increased nearly 7 percent year-over-year, to $45.2 trillion, in 2014. More than 10 percent of that total is managed by New York-based BlackRock, which holds the top spot on this roster for a sixth year running.

Statement By US Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew On The Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action Regarding Iran’s Nuclear Program

Date 14/07/2015

“Today’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is an historic deal that will cut off all pathways to a nuclear weapon, cements intrusive inspections that will be at an unprecedented level, and ensures that Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful.  This significant accomplishment would not have been possible without strong and rigorously applied economic sanctions, which were designed and enforced by the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations, alongside many others worldwide.  These sanctions disrupted Iran's access to the materials and infrastructure necessary to develop its nuclear program, more than halved its oil exports, and severed its banking system from the world – providing the leverage necessary to compel Iran to negotiate in a constructive and serious way.

SIX: Paymit Success Continues - BCGE, BCV, LUKB And Raiffeisen Join The New Payment App Paymit

Date 14/07/2015

With Banque Cantonale de Genève (BCGE), Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), Luzerner Kantonalbank (LUKB) and Raiffeisen four more Swiss banks will offer the peer-to-peer (P2P) payment solution «Paymit» of SIX nationwide. Paymit allows individuals to request and make payment transfers by smartphone – quickly, securely and easily.

Greece: Hellenic Capital Market Commission Announcement: Market Closure Extended Until 15th July 2015

Date 14/07/2015

The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC), following the decisions of the 29th and the 30th of June 2015 regarding the emergency measures for the Greek capitalmarket, and following the Decision of the Minister of Finance of the 13th of July 2015 by which the bank holiday, and all its accompanying measures, were extended until the 15th of July 2015 (included), announces that, during the above bank holiday,:

• The regulated market and the Multilateral Trading Facility of “EN.A” (Alternative Market) of the Athens Exchange (Athex) will continue to remain closed.
• The Electronic Secondary Market “HDAT” for bonds, of the Bank of Greece will continue to remain closed.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 14/07/2015

Ratio of the Risk Assessment Range to the Price Range (x_pr) for the security SNGSP will be changed to 1.2 for the period of 15.07.2015-16.07.2015.

Edelweiss Selects OneTick Data Management Platform

Date 14/07/2015

OneMarketData, LLC, the founders of OneTick, a single solution for real-time streaming analytics and tick data management, today announced that Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (Edelweiss), one of India's leading diversified financial services firm has selected OneTick as its market data collection, analytics and tick data management platform. Edelweiss is utilizing OneTick's powerful analytical tools to conduct in-depth quantitative research across the entirety of Indian markets including equities, futures and options. Edelweiss is the first India based entity to use OneTick to build and test mathematical algorithmic trading models for the Indian markets.