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BME Adapts Its Fixed Income Platform To Allow Traders To Comply With MiFID II - Introducing BME’s New Fixed Income Market Model

Date 25/10/2017

BME has adapted its Fixed Income market so that intermediaries and brokers can transfer all their operations to the regulated market and comply with the new disclosure and reporting requirements required by MiFID II – which will come into force in January.

Thomson Reuters Enables Greater Access And Analysis Of Liquidity For Equities Traders With Intraday Liquidity Tool In Eikon - Intraday Market Share Reporter Helps Improve Trading Workflow And Analysis By Identifying Location And Assisting To Predict The Future Direction Of Liquidity

Date 25/10/2017

Thomson Reuters has introduced Intraday Market Share Reporter (iMSR), a solution designed to enable traders to quickly find and analyze liquidity by individual stocks across multiple venues. With an intraday view of market flows, iMSR helps improve trading capabilities and analysis by providing fuller transparency of market trends and the ability to assist in predicting the future direction of liquidity.    

Buy-Back Of Borsa İstanbul A.Ş. C Group Share Was Completed.

Date 25/10/2017

On the basis of brokerage houses’ demands, Borsa İstanbul A.Ş. Board of Directors decided to initiate the buy-back process. In line with regulations in Turkey, the approval of the regulatory body Capital Markets Board of Turkey was secured. On June 8, 2017 during Ordinary General Assembly Meeting, the Board was authorized for buying back 335,828,929 shares in exchange of maximum 50 million TRY, for a year. As a result, share transfers and payments were realized.

Qatar Stock Exchange Promotes Sustainability & ESG Disclosure Among Qatari Listed Companies

Date 25/10/2017

Qatar Stock Exchange held a senior level sustainability engagement session with the listed companies with the aim to promote the business case for ESG and sustainability, outline QSE’s sustainability action plan to attract responsible investors, provide an overview of global investor assessment approaches to ESG, and serve as the soft launch for the QSE Sustainability and ESG Dashboard.

ACER Invites Stakeholders To Provide Inputs For The Agency’s 2019 Work Programme

Date 25/10/2017

Alberto Pototschnig, Director of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), presented today the draft outline of the Agency’s 2019 Work Programme at a public workshop held in Ljubljana. The Director invited all interested parties to express their views and share their opinions on which areas the Agency should focus its efforts on in 2019. The Agency will endeavour to take on board inputs from interested parties that are feasible and in line with its mandate and the available resources.

Bank Resolution Framework - Executive Summary

Date 25/10/2017

Taxpayer-funded bailouts of banks considered too big to fail were a defining characteristic of the Great Financial Crisis. In the intervening years, international standard setters and national authorities have taken steps to reduce both the probability and impact of the failure of such systemically important firms. Key among those steps was the development of an international framework for more effective resolution, which directly targets the impact of the failure of systemically important financial institutions. This Executive Summary provides an overview of the main elements of that framework as it applies to banks.

SIFMA Outlines Guiding Principles For GSE Reform At HFSC Hearing

Date 25/10/2017

Today, Kevin Chavers, managing director at BlackRock, testified on behalf of SIFMA before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance at a hearing entitled “Sustainable Housing Finance: Private Sector Perspectives on Housing Finance Reform.”

UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority Launches Series Of Improvements To The Implementation Of Solvency II

Date 25/10/2017

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UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Urges Public To Report And Speak Out Against Fraudulent Investment Schemes

Date 25/10/2017

• More than a fifth (22%) of those contacted by a suspected fraudulent investment firm stay silent
• Brits are more likely to report fly-tipping (81%) than investment scams (63%)
• Londoners report the most investment scams to the FCA followed by people from Birmingham and Belfast

United Arab Emirates Securities And Commodities Authority And Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange Organize An Awareness-Raising Seminar As Part Of The National Investor Awareness Project Initiatives

Date 25/10/2017

As part of the National Investor Awareness Project initiatives, the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) is holding an awareness-raising seminar titled “Stock Portfolio Construction and the Difference between Investment and Speculation in Financial Markets" on Wednesday evening. The seminar—tailored for investors, brokers, and financial analysts at UAE-based brokerage firms—is organized in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). It will examine the most important investment- and speculation-related concepts and will discuss how to construct a stock portfolio that takes risk and return into consideration, as well as the possibility to extend such portfolio to include other assets, such as bonds and commodity derivatives.