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September eVestment Report: Hedge Funds Beat S&P - Activists Uneven - Brazil Drags On Emerging Markets

Date 08/10/2014

eVestment’s September and Q3 Hedge Fund Performance report highlights a variety of trends in hedge fund performance from a busy and tumultuous month.

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - September 2014

Date 08/10/2014

- Securities Market

• On 4 September 2014, market capitalisation reached a record high of $26,539.5 billion.
• The average daily turnover for the first nine months of 2014 was $65,679 million, an increase of 3 per cent when compared with $63,756 million for the same period last year.
• There were 89* newly listed companies for the first nine months of 2014, an increase of 98 per cent when compared with the 45* for the same period last year.
• Funds raised through IPOs for the first nine months of 2014 was $131,324 million, an increase of 119 per cent when compared with $59,904 million for the same period last year.

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Start Of Calculation Of JPX-Nikkei 400 Net Total Return Index

Date 08/10/2014

Japan Exchange Group, Inc., Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. and Nikkei Inc. have been jointly calculating and publishing the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 and its total return version (JPX-Nikkei 400 Total Return Index).

Solactive Launches The Ethical US Equity Index - Following The Launch Of The Ethical Europe Equity Index - Both Indices Used By BNP Paribas As Underlying For Investment Solutions

Date 08/10/2014

Solactive AG has launched the Ethical US Equity Index, designed to follow US-listed ethical stocks selected according to a best-in class-approach. This Index has been licensed to BNP Paribas, which will use it as underlying for investment solutions, including structured products.

SGX Welcomes EMAS Offshore Limited To Mainboard

Date 08/10/2014

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed the secondary listing of EMAS Offshore Limited on Mainboard under the stock code “UQ4”.

Netagio Responds To Institutional Demand By Launching Its API

Date 08/10/2014

Netagio, the first British Bitcoin, gold & Sterling exchange, today announced the launch of its Application Programming Interface (API).  Institutional investors can now programme their Execution Management Systems (EMS) and Order Management Systems (OMS) and fully automate their trading on the exchange. The API will provide brokers/dealers with easier and faster electronic market connectivity, allowing both sophisticated and professional retail customers and institutional investors to trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Thai Bourse Joins Thai Listed Companies Association To Launch CEO Survey

Date 08/10/2014

The Capital Market Research Institute (CMRI), under The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), joined hands with Thai Listed Companies Association (TLCA) to launch quarterly CEO Survey results regarding the economic outlook of Thai listed companies’ CEOs. The survey is part of CMRI’s efforts to enhance quality research on the capital market by developing new indicators and databases, both qualitative and quantitative, to reflect market participants’ views.

Neonet To Provide Access To New Turquoise Block Discovery™ At launch - New Service Enables Customers To Find Matches For Larger Blocks

Date 08/10/2014

Neonet, the independent agency broker and execution specialist, today announced that it will provide access to Turquoise Block Discovery™, the new service from Turquoise from its go-live date.

Singapore Fixed Income Indices (SFI) Weekly - 7 October 2014

Date 08/10/2014

Below are key highlights for the week ending 3 October 2014 (please click on the attachment for further detail): 

• The SFI gained 0.22% to 118.65. 
• YTD, the SFI now outperforms the STI by 0.42%, the first time since July 2014. 
• Gains in the SFI were largely driven by government bonds (SFI Government Bond Index; +0.34%).  Corporate bonds remained relatively flat (SFI Corporate Bond Index; +0.02%). 
• SGX’s My Gateway recently published an article offering more insight into the features and development of the Singapore bond market as well as channels to participate in this growth.  For more information, please clickhere. 
• In the latest index rebalance, 11 issuances (approximately S$5.2 billion in market value) were added to the SFI.  The SFI is now represented by 251 issuances (over S$135 billion in market value). 

OCC Bulletin: Proposed Rule On Margin And Capital Requirements For Covered Swap Entities: Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking

Date 07/10/2014

Description: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Summary

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Farm Credit Administration, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (collectively, agencies) request comment on a proposal to establish minimum margin requirements for registered swap dealers, major swap participants, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants (swap entities) subject to agency supervision. This proposed rule implements sections 731 and 764 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank). Sections 731 and 764 require the agencies to jointly adopt rules to establish capital requirements, as well as initial and variation margin requirements, for swap entities on all non-cleared swaps and non-cleared security-based swaps to offset the greater risk to such entities and the financial system arising from the use of swaps and security-based swaps that are not cleared.