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CME Group Averaged 19.1 Million Contracts Per Day In March 2019

Date 02/04/2019

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 19.1 million contracts during March 2019, compared to 20.8 million contracts in March 2018. In addition, total daily exchange trading volume surpassed 20 million contracts on each of the final six trading days in March. Open interest (OI) at the end of March 2019 was 126 million contracts, up 9% from year-end 2018 and unchanged from March 2018. First-quarter 2019 ADV marked the third-highest quarterly ADV ever with 18.6 million contracts, down from a record 22.2 million contracts in the first quarter of 2018.

Morgan Stanley Retains Global Equity Top Spot With A Market Share Of 10.6%, According To Bloomberg League Table

Date 02/04/2019

Bloomberg has this morning made available its final Q1 2019 league table reports. The tables represent market leaders across a broad range of deal types, including M&A, Equities, loans and bonds transactions over the last quarter. 

IOSCO Report On Behavioural Insights Seeks To Enhance Retail Investor Protection

Date 02/04/2019

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions today published a report on behavioural insights that seeks to help its members improve the effectiveness of retail investor protection.

Bitcoin Soars 20 Percent: Comment By Clem Chambers, CEO ADVFN And Online Blockchain Plc

Date 02/04/2019

As Bitcoin burst to its highest level in almost five months on Tuesday, Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN and Online Blockchain plc, commenting on Bitcoin's jump, said 

"Bitcoin and other coins have been trending up for some time now and coins like Litecoin have doubled. There is huge grassroots interest and the speculative market is looking for a rally to jump on. It’s the reverse of the previous drop where the range tightened and thereafter followed a big move.

Global Equity Capital Markets And Global Debt Capital Market Reviews For Q1 2019 From Refinitiv

Date 02/04/2019

Please click the following links for the Global Debt Capital Markets and Global Equity Capital Markets reviews for Q1 2019 from Refinitiv. Top level highlights follow below, with additional highlights in the links.

March Sees Eurex Well On Track: Eurex Exchange Up By 5 Percent

Date 02/04/2019

Eurex Exchange, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange and part of Deutsche Börse Group, has continued its upward trend in March. The number of traded contracts reached 203.3 million compared to 194.1 million in March 2018. This is an increase of 5 percent. 

London Stock Exchange Group: Capital Markets Division Leadership

Date 02/04/2019

• Raffaele Jerusalmi to step down as Group Director of Capital Markets by end 2019
• Jerusalmi to continue as CEO, Borsa Italiana; a member of the LSEG Executive Committee and an Executive Director of the Board LSEG plc
• LSEG to initiate global search for Director of Capital Markets

Bank Of England: Extension Of Weekly Indexed Long-Term Repo Operations

Date 02/04/2019

The Bank of England is announcing today that it will continue to offer Indexed Long-Term Repo (ILTR) operations on a weekly basis until end-June 2019.

Archax Selects ClearBank® For Banking Services

Date 02/04/2019

ClearBank has today announced that it has been selected by Archax, a forthcoming institutional digital securities exchange based in London, for its pioneering ‘Banking as a Service’ offering. 

FTSE Equity Country Classification

Date 02/04/2019

FTSE understands that investors need an objective and consistent approach to the classification of markets as Developed, Advanced Emerging, Secondary Emerging or Frontier within global benchmarks. To ensure that the classification of markets within FTSE’s global benchmarks remains accurate and up-to-date, FTSE works closely with both the institutional investor community and domestic market authorities to review the classification status of individual markets regularly.