News Centre

Canadian Securities Regulators Provide Update On Trading Fees And Rebates Pilot Study

Date 01/08/2018

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has awarded a research contract to develop a pilot study that will examine the impacts of trading fees and rebates on order routing behaviour by dealers, as well as execution quality and market quality.

OneChicago Announces Trading Volume For July 2018

Date 01/08/2018

OneChicago, LLC (ONE), a securities finance exchange, today announced its July 2018 volume of 378,641, a decrease of 73% year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,800 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.

B3 Integrated Web Portal - Market Data Is Now Available On A Single Web Address

Date 01/08/2018

As of today, you can access B3’s integrated web portal containing the content from the websites bmfbovespa.com.br, cetip.com.br and b3.com.br.

Nasdaq Filing Of Quarterly Report For Quarter Ended June 30, 2018

Date 01/08/2018

On August 1, 2018, Nasdaq filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Form 10-Q can be accessed on Nasdaq's website at http://ir.nasdaq.com/sec.cfm and on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.

OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up 15 Percent In July

Date 01/08/2018

• Equity options volume up 20 percent in July
• Average equity daily volume up 23 percent year-to-date
• Securities lending activity up 19 percent in July and 22 percent year-to-date

State Street Comments On Federal Open Market Committee Meeting

Date 01/08/2018

In reaction to today’s US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, Lee Ferridge, head of Multi-Asset Strategy, Americas at State Street Global Markets; Antoine Lesné, head of EMEA strategy and research for SPDR ETFs; and Sophia Ferguson, senior portfolio manager for active fixed income and currency at State Street Global Advisors, offer their views.

Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement

Date 01/08/2018

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a strong rate. Job gains have been strong, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate has stayed low. Household spending and business fixed investment have grown strongly. On a 12-month basis, both overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy remain near 2 percent. Indicators of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance.

MGEX Open Interest Up Twenty Percent From A Month Ago

Date 01/08/2018

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), reports that open interest was 74,253 contracts as of yesterday’s close, which is twenty percent higher from June 29th.  

DIFC Courts And Smart Dubai Launch Joint Taskforce For World’s First Court Of The Blockchain

Date 01/08/2018

• Preliminary work to explore activation of cross-border enforcement of legal judgments through the blockchain
• Future research to focus on building dispute resolution mechanisms into the blockchain
• Partnership to reinforce the Dubai Blockchain Strategy 2020

US Treasury Announces Guidance On One-Time Repatriation Tax On Foreign Earnings

Date 01/08/2018

The United States Department of the Treasury today announced the release of proposed regulations relating to the section 965 transition tax, on U.S. multinational companies’ overseas income, which is being repatriated under section 965 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  The proposed guidance affects U.S. shareholders with direct or indirect ownership in certain specified foreign corporations, as defined in the new tax code provision.