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FESE: European Capital Markets Fact Sheet Q3 2019

Date 22/10/2019

• European capital markets had a good third quarter in 2019.
• Both the FESE Index and equity trading increased QoQ and YoY, recovering their earlier path.
• Good news for SME markets, they grew in market capitalisation.
• New listings experienced a sharp quarterly decline owing to an above-average second quarter, but equity investment flows increased YoY.
• It was a very positive quarter for options and futures, as they soared in notional turnover.
• Finally, also good news for bonds: they increased in turnover at the QoQ and YoY levels.

SEC Investor Advisory Committee To Meet On Nov. 7

Date 22/10/2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting on Nov. 7. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time in the Multipurpose Room at SEC headquarters at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. and is open to the public. The meeting will be webcast live and archived on the committee’s website for later viewing.

BME: MARF Registers A Bond Issue By Vista Alegre

Date 22/10/2019

• The Portuguese company chooses this BME market to broaden and diversify its investor base in Spain

Record Number Of Comments Submitted In Opposition To Proposed SEC Rule

Date 22/10/2019

The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) today filed a historic petition with 102,595 signatures opposing a proposed Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) rule that would reduce whistleblower protections and rewards. When combined with the more than 15,000 comments directly filed with the SEC by many of these individuals, this is the largest-ever set of comments on an SEC whistleblower program change. It is also one of the top seven sets of comments on any SEC action.

ETF Market Report: 3rd Quarter 2019 - The Swiss Stock Exchange, One Of Europe’s Top 3 ETF Venues, Publishes The Latest Figures About The Growth Of Its Segment.

Date 22/10/2019

The Swiss ETF market developed positively in the past quarter and achieved an increase in turnover, as the latest edition of ourETF Market Report[pdf] shows. Trading turnover in the third quarter reached CHF 40.5 billion. With CHF 28.9 bn, turnover in the asset class Equity Developed Markets alone was higher than the total turnover of the ETF segment in Q2 (CHF 24.7 bn). With a total of 272'322, the number of transactions in Q3 was also higher than in the previous quarter (257'707).

Verhofstadt, European Parliament's Brexit Coordinator: “We Will Only Approve Brexit Deal After UK Has Approved It”

Date 22/10/2019

An orderly Brexit is needed to avoid violence returning to Ireland, according to Guy Verhofstadt, Parliament's Brexit coordinator.

PEAR Hits Milestone In Functionality And Exchange Coverage

Date 22/10/2019

One of the biggest problems facing market data professionals today is keeping up to date with the various price and policy changes made by exchanges. With a heavy reliance on vendors and subscribers to inform their client base, there is always a risk of the message becoming lost in already overloaded inboxes. This typically results in data subscribers having to seek this information for themselves.

European Parliament: MEPs Adopt Plan To Keep 2020 EU Funding For UK In No-Deal Brexit Scenario

Date 22/10/2019

• Plan to secure EU budget payments to UK beneficiaries like universities, local communities, farmers and Erasmus students
• Decision contingent on UK paying its share into the EU budget

Solactive Extends Its Management Board And Appoints Timo Pfeiffer As Chief Markets Officer

Date 22/10/2019

The Supervisory Board of Solactive has appointed Timo Pfeiffer to Solactive’s Management Board. Timo Pfeiffer joins Steffen Scheuble (CEO), Dirk Urmoneit (CIO), and Christian Vollmuth (CRO) as part of the firm’s management body in the newly created role of Chief Markets Officer (CMO). In this new role, Timo Pfeiffer assumes responsibility for Solactive’s client-facing activities, research function, and wider distribution and communications strategy. The appointment highlights the importance of Solactive’s growing client base and cements the connectivity between client segments, regions, and product lines.

Understanding Pay Gaps - Speech By Andy Haldane, Chief Economist Bank Of England, Given At The Joint Bank Of England, Federal Reserve Bank And European Central Bank Conference On Gender And Career Progression

Date 22/10/2019

The Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane discusses how the UK’s gender and ethnicity pay gaps have changed over time, what’s been driving them and why that matters.