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Speech By Charles Randell, Chair, UK Financial Conduct Authority, Delivered At The Annual Public Meeting At The QEII Centre, Westminster.

Date 11/09/2018

Highlights:

• Ten years on since Lehman’s collapsed, we still do not have a settled financial services sector.
• The FCA has tough choices about where to focus its attention and resources, particularly as the external environment develops and changes. 

QuantHouse Announces Global Access Of QuantFEED For Cboe US Equity And Equity Options - Delivering Full Equity And Equity Options Coverage As Part Of Continued US Expansion

Date 11/09/2018

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 its QuantFEED and QuantLINK will provide optimized direct access to Cboe market data. 

Taiwan Futures Exchange September Newsletter

Date 11/09/2018

By end of August 2018, TAIFEX’s trading volume surpassed 200 million contracts for the fifth consecutive year, increasing 21.4% YoY to 200,112,455 contracts, with an average daily volume (ADV) of 1,227,684 contracts. Of all, Mini-TAIEX Futures (MTX), TAIEX Futures (TX) as well as Single Stock Futures (STF) were the main drivers with uppermost growth of 64.9%, 39.6% and 37.0% YoY, respectively.

Dalian Commodity Exchange: Giving Full Play To Futures’ Functions To Serve Soybean Industry Revitalization

Date 11/09/2018

The “3rd China Soybean Industry International Summit Forum” was held in Harbin on September 4. It was organized by the Heilongjiang Provincial Agricultural Commission, the China Soybean Industry Association, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), Beidahuang Grain Group Co., Ltd. and the Heilong Jiang Provincial Soybean Association, and co-organized by Jiusan Group, Nanhua Futures and Henghua Agricultural Service.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Court Of Appeal Orders Retrial In Insider Dealing Case

Date 11/09/2018

The Court of Appeal has allowed the Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC) appeal against the Market Misconduct Tribunal’s (MMT) decision that Mr Cheng Chak Ngok, former executive director, chief financial officer and company secretary of ENN Energy Holdings Limited, had not engaged in insider dealing in the shares of China Gas Holdings Limited in 2011 (China Gas).

Cboe Global Markets Launches Cboe® iBoxx® iShares® $ High Yield Corporate Bond Index (IBHY) Futures

Date 11/09/2018

• Cboe IBHY futures are exchange-listed fixed-income instruments designed to allow market participants worldwide to hedge positions and gain exposure to a key segment of the roughly $8.8 trillion corporate bond market
• The new Cboe IBHY futures are the only exchange-listed futures product linked to U.S. corporate bonds
• Cboe today also announced the planned launch of Cboe® iBoxx® iShares® $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index (IBIG) futures  on October 8, 2018, pending regulatory review

B3 Begins Trading The First Fixed Income ETF In Brazil

Date 10/09/2018

As of today, B3 begins to trade the first Fixed Income ETF in Brazil. The product was developed by Mirae Asset Global Investments along with the index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices and was enabled by the B3 trading platform. The product will follow the S&P/B3 Fixed Income Index, which will measure the performance of a hypothetical portfolio holding three-year DI futures contracts

Registration Open For CFTC’s First FinTech Conference - FinTech Forward 2018 Supports The Recognition Of World Investor Week

Date 10/09/2018

Registration is now open for “FinTech Forward 2018: Innovation, Regulation and Education,” a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) conference that will convene on October 3-4 at its Washington, D.C. headquarters.

Corrected: FIA, Institute Of International Finance And Global Financial Markets Association Urge Fair Treatment Of Global Capital Rules For Clearing

Date 10/09/2018

FIA, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), and the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) filed a response to the consultative report of the Derivatives Assessment Team (DAT) on “Incentives to centrally clear over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives” (DAT Report). The Associations agree with the DAT’s findings that there are impediments to accessing central clearing and urge global regulators to take action. Regulatory capital treatment of banks' clearing activity is the key constraint on client clearing capacity by service providers, according to the response. 

Statement On The Expiration Of The Tick Size Pilot - SEC Division Of Economic And Risk Analysis And Division Of Trading And Markets

Date 10/09/2018

On May 6, 2015, the Commission approved the National Market System Plan to Implement a Tick Size Pilot Program (Tick Size Pilot) as a two-year pilot program that would widen the minimum quoting and trading increments–or tick sizes–for stocks of certain smaller companies. The Tick Size Pilot commenced operation on Oct. 3, 2016, and therefore will expire, pursuant to its terms, at the end of trading on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018.