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Companies Seeking Out Women For Top Roles To Benefit From Experience, Finds Key Quoted Companies Alliance Survey

Date 08/03/2018

Publicly quoted companies are actively looking to appoint women to top positions to achieve a better boardroom balance and address concerns about diversity in business, as indicated by research for the Quoted Companies Alliance, the independent membership organisation that champions the interests of small to mid-size quoted companies.

Bursa Malaysia Securities Sector Update: George Kent (Malaysia) Berhad

Date 08/03/2018

Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa Securities”) has decided to update the classification of sector for GEORGE KENT (MALAYSIA) BERHAD (“GKENT”) to come into effect on 9.00 a.m., Friday, 16 March 2018.

Cboe Europe Approved As Benchmark Administrator Under The EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR)

Date 08/03/2018

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today announced that Cboe Europe was registered on 5 March 2018 as a Benchmark Administrator under the EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). Cboe Europe’s suite of European indices are now BMR compliant.

OANDA Launches Real-Time Spot FX Rates API For Treasury And FinTech Applications

Date 08/03/2018

A global leader in corporate and consumer foreign exchange solutions, OANDA recently released a new version of its trusted Exchange Rates API, which has been updated to include real-time currency rates. The rates available on the new API are updated every five seconds, providing a more accurate reflection of current market prices. In addition to providing live rates, the new API also offers 96 fixing rates daily – more than any other currency data feed on the market. Available at 15-minute intervals, each fixing rate provides bid, ask, and midpoint rates. Customers also have access to daily and period average rates aligned to their time zone and can now access open and close prices.”

PostFinance Is A New Shareholder Of SIX

Date 08/03/2018

PostFinance, one of the leading retail financial institutions in Switzerland, is a new shareholder of SIX, the operator of the Swiss financial market infrastructure. With PostFinance, the shareholder base of SIX now includes 127 banks and all significant participants of the Swiss financial center.

EU Agencies Joint Declaration On Sexual Harassment

Date 08/03/2018

On International Women's Day, the heads of EU agencies, including ESMA, commit to zero tolerance on sexual harassment in a joint statement.

Thai Stock Exchanges Commit To Help Women Rise Up In Businesses

Date 08/03/2018

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) today signaled its commitment to further promote business practices that give women greater equality and leadership in listed companies. 

TASE’s CEO, Ittai Ben-Zeev, Opened Trading On March 6 At The Sderot Conference, At The Sapir Academic College

Date 08/03/2018

​The CEO of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Ittai Ben-Zeev said that “we hope that the trend of more and more Israeli companies making an IPO at TASE by raising equity and debt will continue, and that these will be invested in creating employment opportunities – particularly in the north and south of Israel, and not just in Tel Aviv”. He added that “if we look at what is meant by managing a public company and conducting business on the capital market – part of this is that your performance comes under scrutiny every quarter. As a generalization, it can be said that there are many parties in the state of Israel that can learn from the conduct of public companies; whereby not only do policy and strategy have to be reported, but also results have to be presented. As a public exchange, we see considerable importance in economic development and in assisting entrepreneurs and others so that they can continue developing the economy and achieving wondrous things”.

Shanghai Stock Exchange - MI: 1st Domestic New-Economy Enterprise Supply Chain Finance Asset-Backed Securities Product Approved

Date 08/03/2018

MI's supply chain finance asset-backed securities shelf offering of RMB10 billion received a no-objection letter from the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) on March 2, making it the 1st asset-backed securities supporting new-economy enterprise supply chain finance in China. The successful launch of this project is an important measure of the SSE to support the new economy development and urge the supply chain finance to serve the real economy under the leadership of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).

JPX Monthly Headlines - February 2018

Date 08/03/2018

JPX group companies undertake various initiatives and disseminate information with the aim of providing the most attractive markets to all users. 

Every month, we showcase the highlights of these efforts in short and concise summaries just for you.