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China Daily : China's Dalian Commodity Exchange To Further Open Up

Date 08/05/2019

China's Dalian Commodity Exchange will open more of its futures contracts to foreign investors, aiming to build a first-tier exchange of derivatives in the world within five to 10 years, according to a senior official at the bourse.

Options Announces New Global Managed Colocation Facilities With ASX At ALC - New Exchange Facilities To Provide Ultra-Low-Latency Market Data And Order Entry Access Across Equities And Derivatives

Date 08/05/2019

Options, the leading provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, today announced additional colocation coverage with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) at the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC) to supplement existing market data access to clients in the region and across Options’ global Managed Colocation backbone. Options clients colocated within ASX will benefit from vendor access to ASX 24 and ASX Trade, further bolstering the firm’s ultra-low-latency exchange feeds across equities and derivatives.

Monetary Authority Of Singapore Transfers S$45 Billion To The Government For Long-Term Investment

Date 08/05/2019

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said today that it would be transferring S$45 billion from the official foreign reserves (OFR) to the Government for longer-term investment.  This amount is the excess over what MAS deems necessary to maintain confidence in Singapore’s exchange rate-centred monetary policy.  MAS, as the central bank of Singapore, manages the country’s OFR, which stood at S$404 billion as at April 2019.

HKEX Releases First Quarter Results For 2019

Date 08/05/2019

The Board is pleased to present the unaudited consolidated results of the Group for the three months ended 31 March 2019.

Global Exchanges Improve In April, FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index Up 4.6% In April, 9.2% Year-to-Date, 6.5% Over 12 Months

Date 07/05/2019

Most constituents in the FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index rose in April, with the index, which aims to reflect market sentiment and is a key indicator of exchanges performance closing at 53,937.62 on 30 April 2019, establishing a new closing all-time high.

CME Group Declares Quarterly Dividend

Date 07/05/2019

CME Group Inc., the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today declared a second-quarter dividend of $0.75 per share, payable June 25, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 10, 2019. 

CFTC Chairman Giancarlo To Testify Before The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee On Financial Services And General Government

Date 07/05/2019

FIA April 2019 SEF Tracker

Date 07/05/2019

DTCC Provides Vision For Central Clearing In The U.S. Treasury Cash Market - New Paper Proposes Central Clearing Solutions To Enhance Resiliency And Mitigate Risks Associated With Bilateral Clearing

Date 07/05/2019

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the release of a new white paper that explores the current structure of the U.S. Treasury securities market, highlighting potential risk and resiliency issues, and describing initiatives that could promote greater use of central clearing.

SEC Charges Nevada Man Who Traded On Confidential Information Taken From Lifelong Friend

Date 07/05/2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled insider trading charges against a Nevada man who obtained confidential information about a pending corporate merger from a lifelong friend and used it to generate more than $250,000 in illicit trading profits.