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  • Deutsche Börse AG: OFAC Informs Deutsche Börse AG Subsidiary Clearstream That It Has Closed Its Investigation - The Decision On A Settlement With OFAC Is Still To Be Taken

    Date 28/10/2013

    Today, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ('OFAC') has notified Clearstream Banking S.A. ('Clearstream'), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Deutsche Börse AG, that following Clearstream's ongoing discussions with OFAC since learning of OFAC's indicative penalty in January 2013, OFAC has closed its investigation of possible violations of U.S. sanctions. OFAC has informed Clearstream that if it were to issue a formal pre-penalty notice at this time, such notice would include a penalty of USD 168,780,000. Clearstream now has the option to settle the matter with OFAC, in which case a 10% discount would apply for a total settlement payment of USD 151,902,000. Within the scope of its investigation, OFAC had looked into Clearstream's maintenance of an omnibus account in the United States and certain securities transfers within the Clearstream settlement system in 2008. These transfers had related to the decision taken by Clearstream in 2007 to close its Iranian customers' accounts. Deutsche Börse AG has already informed about this matter by way of an ad hoc disclosure on 9 January 2013. A settlement with OFAC would not constitute a final determination that a violation has occurred.

  • Ancoa Optimises Platform To End “Black Hat Algo Trading” - The Ancoa Platform Provides Intelligent, Scalable, Real-Time Market Surveillance For Regulators, Exchanges And Other Market Players

    Date 28/10/2013

    Ancoa, a dedicated big data technology for financial market surveillance, recently unveiled the results of its work with Intel, in a whitepaper titled “Multi-core Optimization for Market Surveillance”. Ancoa was developed specifically to enable market regulators and exchanges to enforce market integrity in the era of algorithmic trading.

  • HKEx's Upgraded Derivatives Trading And Clearing Systems Complete Stabilisation Period

    Date 28/10/2013

    The trading and clearing systems for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited's (HKEx) derivatives market – HKATS (Hong Kong Futures Automatic Trading System) and DCASS (Derivatives Clearing and Settlement System) – have completed the stabilisation period that followed their upgrade earlier this month to Genium INET, a new technology platform that provides better performance and supports the further development of the market.

  • Eurex And Vienna Stock Exchange Conclude Index Licensing Agreement - Listing Of New Futures And Options Planed On Leading Indices Of The Vienna Stock Exchange

    Date 28/10/2013

    The international derivatives market Eurex Exchange has concluded an index licensing agreement with the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse AG). The agreement will allow Eurex Exchange to list futures and options on well-known indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange. This means that Eurex Exchange will be able to complement its successful Austrian equity futures and equity options segment with the corresponding equity index derivatives based on the ATX and ATX five.

  • Vienna Stock Exchange Acquires One Of The World’s Largest Derivatives Exchanges As New Index Customer

    Date 28/10/2013

    The Vienna Stock Exchange has acquired the Eurex Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading venues for derivatives, as new index licensee. The license will enable Eurex to issue financial products on indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange. The Vienna Stock Exchange currently calculates and publishes 89 indices based on which more than 130 international financial institutions have already issued various structured products.