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ADX Appoints Market Development Advisor

Date 11/07/2017

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that Mr. Henri Bergstrom has joined The Exchange as a Market Development Advisor.  Previously he was the Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ OMX Armenia Exchange and CSD and Product Manager for Nasdaq Post Trade Solutions. Further he has been assigned as an advisor to deliver post trade strategies to a number of global exchanges and post trade institutions.

GreenKey Technologies And Red Box Recorders Partner To Launch Integrated Trading Voice Collaboration And Compliance Recording Solution

Date 11/07/2017

GreenKey Technologies, an AI-driven voice collaboration platform for the financial markets, announced today a global partnership with Red Box Recorders, a market leading expert in voice recording technology and services, to create an integrated solution for embedded compliance recording within GreenKey's software-based trader collaboration offering.

BME: Corporate Debt Financing Reaches €117 BN, Up 29%

Date 11/07/2017

• The disintermediation of business financing gathers pace in Spain, where the     degree of bank financing was higher than in our neighbouring countries
• The main non-financial listed companies have increased their equity by 24% while bank financing has fallen 42% since 2010
• The challenge is for smaller companies to follow this trend through alternative markets such as MAB and MARF

Euronext: Launch Of LiquidShare, The European Blockchain Fintech For SME Post-Trade

Date 11/07/2017

BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale with the support of Paris EUROPLACE announce the creation of the European fintech venture LiquidShare. This new independent startup is the fruit of a partnership launched by its shareholders in June 2016 to develop a post-trading blockchain infrastructure for the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) market.

ESMA Provides Guidelines For Supervisory Cooperation Regarding CSDs

Date 11/07/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its guidelines regarding the cooperation between authorities under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR).

SGX Welcomes Y Ventures Group Ltd. To Catalist

Date 11/07/2017

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Y Ventures Group Ltd. to Catalist under the stock code “1F1”.  

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Tightens Regulation On Disclosure Of ST ZXBC’s Tender Offer

Date 11/07/2017

Recently, Zhenxing Biopharmaceutical and Chemical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “ST ZXBC” or “the Company”) has attracted broad market attention for its tender offer event. In order to urge interested parties to perform their disclosure obligation as per rules and protect investors’ legitimate rights and interests, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) has taken a series of regulatory measures. An SZSE officer stressed that listed companies and interested disclosure obligors should strictly abide by Securities Law, Corporate Law, Rules Governing Listing of Stocks, and other laws and regulations to truthfully, accurately, completely and fairly perform their information disclosure obligation in a timely manner and that no party should take inappropriate approaches to impede interested parties’ obligation performance or impair broad investors’ legitimate rights and interests.

Bank Of Thailand And Monetary Authority Of Singapore Sign FinTech Cooperation Agreement And Banking Supervision Memorandum Of Understanding

Date 11/07/2017

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today signed a FinTech Cooperation Agreement (CA) and updated an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Banking Supervision. The two documents were signed at the side of the biennial BOT-MAS Bilateral Meeting. This year’s Bilateral Meeting was hosted by MAS.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Focusing On The Review Of 2016 Annual Reports: Over 6800 Questions For Listed Companies

Date 11/07/2017

Recently, SZSE has completed the review of 2016 annual reports issued by listed companies, sending a total of 990 letters of enquiry or so to over half of the listed companies and raising over 6800 questions. According to the degree of risk involved and the letters of reply received from listed companies, SZSE publicized about 200 enquiry letters and replies.

ESMA Publishes Updated AIFMD And UCITS Q&A

Date 11/07/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published updated questions and answers documents (Q&A) on the application of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS).