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Goldman Sachs Takes Stake In Perseus - Sees Financial Technology As Strategic Investment Priority

Date 21/04/2015

Perseus, a leading managed services provider of high-speed connectivity, today announced a $20.5 million investment by Goldman Sachs for a minority stake in its rapidly growing global technology business. The capital will allow Perseus to accelerate expansion of its global managed services network.

ISDA’s 30th AGM To Highlight Cross-Border Harmonization And Global Derivatives Regulation

Date 21/04/2015

Leading regulators and legislators will gather with industry participants at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Montreal this week to discuss the need for cross-border harmonization in financial regulation, and to consider ways of addressing the fragmentation of liquidity pools.

Nasdaq Lists The AlphaMark Actively Managed Small Cap ETF - Only Actively Managed ETF In The Small Cap Growth Space

Date 21/04/2015

Nasdaq announced that US Bancorp will list a new exchange-traded fund (ETF), The AlphaMark Actively Managed Small Cap ETF (Symbol: SMCP), which will begin trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market today, April 21, 2015.

GBP100 Million Data Centre Campus Gets The Green Light In Scotland.

Date 21/04/2015

Detailed consent has been granted for phase one of the country’s largest green data centre development located in Fife Scotland.

Hotspot Offers “Free Gold” To Customers - Promotion Effective 1st May, Will Continue At Least Through Year End

Date 21/04/2015

Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by BATS Global Markets (BATS), today announced plans to offer free gold trading for all Hotspot customers beginning 1st May 2015.

TOCOM Foreign Customer Trades Ratio Advanced To 49.6% Of Total Volume In March - Renewed

Date 21/04/2015

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc announced today that the March 2015 monthly volume of customer trades (combined sell & buy sides) originating overseas (1,943,221 contracts) accounted for 49.6 percent of the total trades (3,919,688 contracts), which renewed the all-time high ratio recorded in January 2015 at 48.4%. The volume of foreign customer trades and its proportion in the total trades on TOCOM markets started increasing significantly after the launch of the current trading platform and night session in May 2009. It has gone from 11 percent to 49.6 percent in the past five years.

PEGAS: Launch Of Physical Futures Contracts For PSV Market Area On 17 June 2015

Date 21/04/2015

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, will launch new physical natural gas Futures contracts on the Italian Punto di Scambio Virtuale (PSV) on 17 June 2015 to complete the existing offer.

Warwick Business School Study Clears Traders Failing To Deliver For Collapse Of Lehman Brothers In Financial Crash

Date 21/04/2015

Traders who ‘failed to deliver’ on stock market trades during the 2007-08 financial crash have been cleared of causing the collapse of major financial firms such as AIG, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, according to a new study.

Methodology Of The Moscow Exchange Indices Calculation Registered

Date 21/04/2015

In 16 April 2015, the Bank of Russia has registered the Methodology of the Moscow Exchange Indices Calculation approved by the Directorate of MICEX Stock Exchange on 5 March 2015 and the Executive Board of Moscow Exchange on 6 March 2015.

Shanghai Stock Exchange: Notice On Matters For Promoting Securities Lending Business

Date 21/04/2015

Since the businesses of margin trading and securities lending was launched 5 years ago, margin trading has witnessed fast booms while securities lending lags. In order to boost the latter, the notice is hereby issued as to relevant matters:

First, professional institutional investors shall be encouraged to engage in securities lending to expand securities sources. The products established by professional institutional investors, including publicly offered funds and asset management plans of securities companies, can be involved in securities lending as of the date of their establishment. Such investors shall be supported to engage in securities lending and securities lending of refinancing to propel supply and demand of securities sources in the market, on the basis of making risks controllable and protecting holders’ rights and interests.