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Emirates Securities And Commodities Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market And Dubai Financial Services Authority Launch Fund Passporting Legislation Enabling UAE-Wide Promotion Of Investment Funds

Date 11/03/2019

The Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (ESCA), the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) announced today that, following the enactment of relevant legislation and rules, a new fund passporting facility is available. This passporting facility, which has been the subject of extensive public consultation since November 2018, will facilitate the promotion of the funds licensed by each authority across the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Itiviti Introduces Unified Offering Following Merger With Ullink

Date 11/03/2019

• Itiviti’s solutions consolidate clients’ trading infrastructure, addressing the full trade lifecycle across asset classes.
• Through the merger of Itiviti and Ullink in 2018, Itiviti has emerged as a full-service provider for global and regional financial institutions

IPSX Selects QuantHouse To Distribute Its Commercial Real Estate Pricing Feeds To Global Quant Community - Delivering Opportunities To Develop In-House Algo Trading Models Engineered To Enable The Trading Of Commercial Real Estate As An Asset Class

Date 11/03/2019

QuantHouse, the leading independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, today announced that real-time pricing feeds from The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) are now available globally to all QuantHouse members looking to trade real estate as an asset class.

SGX Welcomes Reclaims Global Limited To Catalist

Date 11/03/2019

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Reclaims Global Limited to its Catalist under the stock code “NEX”.

HKEX Signs Licence Agreement With MSCI To Launch MSCI China A Index Futures

Date 11/03/2019

• New contracts will facilitate the development of a vital risk management tool
• HKEX/MSCI agreement directly responds to international trading communities’ need

NatWest To Launch Biometric Payments Card Pilot

Date 10/03/2019

• NatWest is set to pilot a biometric fingerprint bank card
• 200 customers selected to take part

IMF Executive Board Reviews Corporate Taxation In The Global Economy

Date 10/03/2019

On February 21, 2019, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) discussed a paper setting out the current state of international corporate income tax arrangements.

The Saudi Stock Exchange Announces The Publication Of The Weekly Stock Market Ownership And Trading Activity Report (By Nationality And Investor Type)

Date 10/03/2019

To view the detailed Weekly Stock Market Ownership and Trading Activity Report (by Nationality and Investor Type) for Main Market and Nomu-Parallel Market please Click Here

Tehran Stock Exchange New Year Holidays

Date 09/03/2019

Tehran Stock Exchange will be closed from Wednesday, March 20 to Sunday, March 24 due to the national holidays to celebrate the Iranian New Year, Nowruz.

Monetary Policy: Normalization And The Road Ahead, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell At The 2019 SIEPR Economic Summit, Stanford Institute Of Economic Policy Research, Stanford, California

Date 09/03/2019

Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a place dedicated to scholarship supporting policies to better peoples' lives. As today is International Women's Day, I would like to preface my remarks by commending the American Economic Association for highlighting the diversity challenges of the economics profession and charting a way forward. Diversity is also a priority at the Fed: I want the Fed to be known within the economics profession as a great place for women, minorities, and others of diverse backgrounds to be respected, listened to, and happy.