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HKEx Organises Workshops For Market Practitioners To Support Stock Connect's Southbound Trading

Date 12/03/2015

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) organised two educational training workshops this week to support trading of Hong Kong-listed shares (Southbound trading) through Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (Stock Connect), its mutual market access programme with the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).

EBRD And Romania Pledge Further Support To SMEs

Date 12/03/2015

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Romania have pledged to expand support for the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a key sector of the economy.

Japan's Financial Services Agency: Stewardship Code : 184 Institutional Investors Have Signed Up To The Principles For Responsible Institutional Investors

Date 12/03/2015

The Council of Experts Concerning the Japanese Version of the Stewardship Code (Chairman: Professor Hiroyuki Kansaku, The University of Tokyo) published the Principles for Institutional Investors (Japan’s Stewardship Code) in February 27, 2014. The Council requested the FSA to publish and periodically update the list of institutional investors who announced their acceptance of the Code.

LSEG’s UnaVista Applies To Become A Registered Reporting Mechanism For REMIT

Date 12/03/2015

• REMIT requires energy contracts to be reported to a RRM
• Clients able to report for EMIR, MiFID and REMIT through one interface
• Provides firms with a consolidated view of their direct and indirect reported trades
• UnaVista platform helps clients reduce regulatory and operational risk

Warsaw Stock Exchange: Futures Masters Competition Finals

Date 12/03/2015

• The Futures Masters competition which introduced a large group of investors to the specificity of futures contracts has just closed. The list of finalists was published on the www.futuresmasters.pl website on 11 March 2015.
• Nearly 8.5 thousand participants joined the competition and on average more than 2 thousand participants were active at each session.
• The Futures Masters competition engaged an analytical Dream Team from 11 brokerage houses.
• The competition spanned five weeks and offered five opportunities to win cash and non-cash prizes in a total amount of PLN 70 thousand.

Thai Bourse Market Report For February 2015

Date 12/03/2015

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) main index ended February at 1,587.01 points, up 0.4 percent from a month earlier, or up 6 percent from end-2014, in spite of concerns over Greece’s debt and Thai listed companies’ performance in the final quarter of last year. Meanwhile, the combined average trading value of SET and mai doubled to THB 59.51 billion (approx. USD 1.8 billion), while the market capitalization of SET was THB 14.86 trillion and mai was THB 452.53 billion. As a result, as of February, 2015, Thai bourse’s market capitalization surpassed Bursa Malaysia’s, as such ranking second in ASEAN.

TriOptima To Offer Multilateral Compression For CME Group Cleared Trades

Date 12/03/2015

TriOptima, leading provider of OTC derivatives post trade risk services, announces today that it has entered into arrangements with CME Group to enable TriOptima to offer triReduce risk-constrained multilateral compression for interest rate swaps (IRS) to house accounts of CME Group IRS clearing members. 

Liquidnet Hires European Head Of Execution And Quantitative Services (EQS) - Expansion Of EQS Team Globally Demonstrates Liquidnet's Commitment To Delivering Next Generation Of Execution Services And Quantitative Trading Strategies

Date 12/03/2015

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced that industry veteran Chris Jackson has joined the company as European Head of Liquidnet's Execution and Quantitative Services (EQS) Group. Chris brings over twenty years of experience to this new role which will involve setting the strategic direction of the European Trading Desk and Algorithmic Services Group, as well as heading up the senior sales effort for Liquidnet's global algorithmic offering with European clients.

Gui Minjie, Chairman Shanghai Stock Exchange, Suggests Establishing Shanghai Financial Court

Date 12/03/2015

Gui Minjie, Member of the CPPCC National Committee and Chairman of the Governors of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), has recently submitted 2 proposals at the NPC and CPPCC sessions, namely, the “Suggestion on Specifying Tax Policies for Asset Securitization” and the “Suggestion on Establishing Financial Court in Shanghai”.

Taiwan Stock Exchange And Macquarie Securities (HK) Co-organized Taiwan Investment Seminars In Hong Kong And Singapore - Foreign Investors Now Hold A Record 39.3% Of Taiwanese Stocks

Date 12/03/2015

The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE) and Macquarie Capital Securities (HK) is pleased to co-organize the Taiwan Investment Seminars in Hong Kong and Singapore from March 10 to March 13, 2015. The delegation led by Dr. Nai-kuan Huang, Senior Executive Vice-President responsible for international business at TWSE, together with the participation of ten large-scale up-and-coming enterprises have drawn strong attention from local institutional investors. TWSE also took the opportunity to share ideas with institutional investors on the latest developments in Taiwan capital market during the luncheon seminars.