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Blockchain Could Boost Company Value: New Research From University Of Wollongong

Date 28/11/2017

New research from the University of Wollongong suggests that using blockchain technology to allow e-voting at annual general meetings could increase overall company value.

Horizon Brings Warrants Market Expertise To Vietnam

Date 28/11/2017

Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, today announced its commitment to help develop Warrant market expertise within the Vietnam market. A key challenge was to provide business knowledge of the Covered Warrants issuing and market making business to help stimulate and support market development in Vietnam.

UK's Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Final Summary Of RBS’s Treatment Of SME Customers Referred To Its Global Restructuring Group

Date 28/11/2017

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today publishes the Final Summaryof the independent review of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) treatment of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers transferred to its Global Restructuring Group (GRG).

BME: MARF Registers A Commercial Paper Programme By Volotea

Date 28/11/2017

• With a maximum outstanding amount of €20 million
• Commercial paper programmes provide solutions for managing issuers' own working capital requirements
• At present there are 24 companies, from 11 economic sectors, with commercial paper programmes on MARF

Traders Are Concerned With Growth Of Passive Investing Cost Pressures And Increased Regulation Continue To Fuel The Rise Of Passive Investing- Key Findings SIX Trader Survey

Date 28/11/2017

• 88% of traders have seen a shift from active towards passive investing and 72% expect the level of passive investing to rise further next year.
• More than 85% of traders expect a rise in passive investing could provoke change in global markets, but only 40% see this development as positive for their companies.
• Regulation, such as MiFID II, will be by far the biggest challenge in the next 12 months.
• Trading activity in 2018 will mainly be driven by the actions of the ECB, while regulation is expected to have more influence than Brexit.

Fintech MoneyMe Secures $120 Million Capital Facility Led By Fortress Investment Group

Date 28/11/2017

Australian consumer lending fintech, MoneyMe, has finalised an AU$120 million asset-backed wholesale securitization facility led by $100 million from global investment manager, Fortress Investment Group, and joined with $20 million of bonds issued by corporate advisory, Evans & Partners.

Fluent Partners With MOEX To Streamline FX Integration And Testing

Date 28/11/2017

Fluent Trade Technologies (Fluent) today announced that it has partnered with Moscow Exchange (MOEX), Russia’s main trading and clearing platform for equities, bonds, derivatives and currencies, to provide clients and prospects with simple and secure access to the MOEX UAT integration and testing environment.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Taiwanese Regulator Recognizes Platinum Rolling Spot As “Eligible Foreign Futures”

Date 28/11/2017

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) announced today that the Platinum Rolling Spot Futures contract has been recognized by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) of Taiwan as “eligible foreign futures” for Taiwanese traders.

NEX Data Launches BrokerTec US Treasury Benchmarks

Date 28/11/2017

NEX Data, which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, announces today that it has launched a series of US Treasury Benchmarks to provide enhanced transparency and pricing information to the US Treasuries market. The new benchmarks will be published at 11am, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm in the New York trading day and will reflect actual transactions and orders during the 15-minute fixing window on NEX Market’s BrokerTec platform, the industry leading anonymous dealer-to-dealer electronic trading platform for the fixed income markets.

AxiomSL Partners With GridCon For A Seamless Transition Of Data Over To AxiomSL’s Regulatory Platform

Date 28/11/2017

AxiomSL, the leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, today announces the strategic partnership with German technical and regulatory support provider GridCon to leverage its German reporting know-how and extensive knowledge on data models for risk free data migration and address the new client data transition demand in the market.