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Nadex Product Schedule For The China Holiday On January 31, 2020

Date 29/01/2020

Due to the China Holiday on Friday, January 31, 2020, no China 50 contracts will be listed.

Bahamas International Securities Exchange Quarterly Statistical Report Q4 2019 - January To December 2019 Statistical Report

Date 28/01/2020

BISX is pleased to announce its BISX All-Share Index and trading statistics for the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2019 with comparison to the same period of 2018.

CFTC Becomes First Federal Agency To Adopt NIST Privacy Framework

Date 28/01/2020

In recognition of Data Privacy Day, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it will become the first federal agency to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Privacy Framework. The framework is a voluntary tool designed to improve privacy through enterprise risk management. The CFTC will integrate the framework into its enterprise risk portfolio and use it to better manage and communicate privacy risk throughout the agency.

SEC Issues Agenda For February 4 Meeting Of Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee

Date 28/01/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission today released the agenda for the Tuesday, Feb. 4 meeting of its Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee. During the meeting, the committee will continue to explore funding gaps that impede growth opportunities for entrepreneurs and job creators. To help analyze these gaps, the committee will explore detailed data on public and private companies, investors, funds, and investment activity to examine how entrepreneurs' diverse capital needs are being met and where policy solutions may be needed. The afternoon session will feature speakers from two smaller regional funds as well as an entrepreneur.

Eurex Expands Total Return Futures Offering To Include Collateral Index TRFs

Date 28/01/2020

• Building on the recent expansion of their Total Return product suite into Equity & Basket TRFs, Eurex has today announced the launch of Collateral Index TRFs.
• The construction of the index for Collateral Index TRFs is specifically designed to represent generic index financing or collateral baskets.

Finansinspektionen: Increased Capital Requirements On Bank Loans For Commercial Real Estate

Date 28/01/2020

Finansinspektionen (FI) considers there to be elevated risks in the banks’ lending for commercial real estate. The banks should hold more capital for these exposures, which is why FI is raising the capital requirements.

SEC Names Ray McInerney As Freedom Of Information Act Officer

Date 28/01/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Ray McInerney has been named Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer in the agency’s Office of FOIA Services. This office promotes transparency in government by making SEC records available to the public and providing a timely and efficient response to each of the nearly 14,000 requests for SEC documents and records the agency receives each year.

Oslo Børs - Derivatives Clearing Migration - Technical User Group

Date 28/01/2020

Welcome to Oslo Børs Technical User Group – Derivatives Clearing Migration, in preparation for migrating clearing of derivatives to LCH SA. The derivatives clearing migration will happen when Oslo Børs' derivatives trading migrates to the Optiq® trading platform. This Technical User Group session will be particularly relevant for derivatives participants in the Oslo market which are currently not connected to LCH SA.

ACER Adopts Decisions Towards A Single EU Electricity Balancing Market

Date 28/01/2020

The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) published today three decisions on the framework for implementation of EU-wide trading platforms for electricity balancing, which will effectively integrate all national balancing markets into one single EU electricity balancing market.

Cloud9 and GreenKey Partner to Enable Next-Gen Voice Trading

Date 28/01/2020

Cloud9 Technologies (“Cloud9”), a leader in cloud-based communications, and GreenKey Technologies (“GK”), a leader in AI-powered conversational analytics, have teamed up to provide the institutional marketplace with an innovative solution that will enable a more efficient and secure extraction of voice trading data. The collaboration will leverage Cloud9’s C9 Trader voice collaboration platform and GreenKey’s speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) engine within IPC’s Connexus™ Cloud financial ecosystem.