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BME: QUID PRO QUO ALQUILER SEGURO SOCIMI To Start Trading On MAB In 10 July

Date 06/07/2018

The Board of Directors of MAB has approved the listing of QUID PRO QUO ALQUILER SEGURO SOCIMI, following a thorough review of all the information presented by the company and after the favourable assessment report on its listing issued by MAB’s Coordination and Admission Committee.

French Supervisor AMF Announces New Approach To Identify Falsely Active Funds: Will It Put It To Effective Use?

Date 06/07/2018

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the recent publication by the French capital markets supervisor AMF of its "alternative" method to identify potential closet index funds. As pointed out in several studies by BETTER FINANCE over the last few years, Closet Indexing represents a serious investor protection issue, as confirmed by the recent decision of the UK supervisor – the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - to sanction 64 closet index funds and to force their managers to indemnify their investors.

Kleros Partners With MARKET Protocol For Decentralized Derivatives Trading - The Decentralized Arbitration Technology Will Integrate With A Leading Project Decentralizing The Derivatives Market

Date 06/07/2018

Blockchain allows for an entirely new class of trustless trading. These new forms of transaction without central intermediaries bring higher security and lower costs to financial services. For this trend to consolidate and grow, a new legal infrastructure is needed.

HKEX Monthly Market Highlights

Date 06/07/2018

 - Securities Market

• The average daily turnover for the first six months of 2018 was $126.6 billion, an increase of 67 per cent when compared with $76.0 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first six months of 2018 was $18.3 billion, an increase of 76 per cent when compared with $10.4 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first six months of 2018 was $7.8 billion, an increase of 86 per cent when compared with $4.2 billion for the same period last year.
• Total funds raised for the first six months of 2018 was $189.8 billion, an increase of 9 per cent when compared with $174.3 billion for the same period last year.
• There were 108* newly listed companies for the first six months of 2018, an increase of 50 per cent when compared with 72* for the same period last year.

Japan's Securities And Exchange: Stewardship Code : 229 Institutional Investors Have Signed Up To The Principles For Responsible Institutional Investors As Of July 3, 2018

Date 06/07/2018

The Council of Experts Concerning the Japanese Version of the Stewardship Code (Chairman: Professor Hiroyuki Kansaku, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics) published the Principles for Institutional Investors (Japan’s Stewardship Code) on February 27, 2014.

HKEX: Exchange Publishes Guidance Letter For Internet-Related Listing Applicants

Date 06/07/2018

• Exchange publishes Guidance Letter to further facilitate listings of companies from emerging and innovative sectors
• Guidance addresses characteristics of internet-related companies

ALQUIBER To Start Trading On MAB On 11 July

Date 06/07/2018

The Board of Directors of MAB has approved the listing of ALQUIBER, following a thorough review of all the information presented by the company and after the favourable assessment report on its listing issued by MAB’s Coordination and Admission Committee.

HKEX: Exchange Adds New Member To Its Biotech Advisory Panel

Date 06/07/2018

• One new Panel member, 16 members on Panel in total
• Exchange will continue to look to add Panel members as appropriate

SGX Reports Market Statistics For June 2018

Date 06/07/2018

• Positive performance in the equity markets, with SDAV up 14% y-o-y and growth in market turnover value of ETFs, structured warrants and DLCs.
• SGX USD/CNH Futures volume from January to June 2018 reached US$194 billion, surpassing 2017 full-year volume of US$190 billion.

encompass corporation Appoints KYC Technology Industry Veteran, Ed Lloyd, As Executive Vice President, Global Sales, To Drive Continued Sales Growth

Date 06/07/2018

encompass corporation (“encompass”), a fast-growing global provider of robotically automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, today announced the appointment of Ed Lloyd, a long-term veteran of the compliance technology industry, to the position of Executive Vice President, Global Sales.