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New DTCC White Paper Identifies Opportunities For Banks To Reduce Risk Capital Charges Related To FRTB - More Than 10 Billion OTC Derivative Transactions Analyzed In DTCC’s ‘‘Real Price Data Study” To Form Credible Observations And Recommendations

Date 12/09/2017

A new white paperfrom The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, suggests ‘real’ price and non-modellable risk factors (‘NMRF’) requirements under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) will pose significant challenges to market participants, potentially mandating large increases in the capital that banks must maintain for market risk purposes (market risk capital). However, banks have an opportunity to reduce their market risk capital charges by using ‘pooled’ observable transaction data to demonstrate that the associated risk factors meet the ‘real’ price standards under FRTB.

Nasdaq Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks As Of Settlement Date August 31, 2017

Date 12/09/2017

At the end of the settlement date of August 31, 2017, short interest in 2,347 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 7,585,840,717 shares compared with 7,365,215,632 shares in 2,352 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of August 15, 2017. The end-of-August short interest represents 5.12 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.42 days for the prior reporting period.

FCAC And IIROC Sign MOU Setting Framework To Strengthen Consumer Protection

Date 12/09/2017

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will strengthen consumer/investor protection.

The Remaking Of Wall Street: Paper Examines How Private Equity Firms Mirror Investment Banks In Power And Influence, By Neil Schoenherr September 12, 2017

Date 12/09/2017

Private equity firms are more financially stable and pose less systemic risk to the global economy than the large investment banks that went defunct during the financial crisis of 2007-09, finds a new analysis by a financial regulation expert at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

Canadian Securities Administrators Seeks New Members For Mining Technical Advisory And Monitoring Committee

Date 12/09/2017

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is inviting applications for new members to join the Mining Technical Advisory and Monitoring Committee (MTAMC).

ESMA Updates Q&A On MiFID II Implementation

Date 12/09/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today updated Questions and Answers (Q&As) regarding the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).

Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo Remarks At The Global Forum For Derivatives Markets 38th Annual Bürgenstock Conference

Date 12/09/2017

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your warm welcome.

It is good to be at the famous Bürgenstock Hotel that has hosted so many famous actors and actresses from Sophia Loren to Sean Connery.

Several of the James Bond movies were filmed in this area. Any minute, I expect to bump into one of the movie characters. Perhaps, like me, your favorite was Auric Goldfinger. I can already hear the theme music. Goldfinger’s headquarters were supposedly nearby.

ESMA Agrees To Prolongation Of Short Selling Ban By Spanish CNMV

Date 12/09/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued an official opinion agreeing to the prolongation of an emergency short selling prohibition by the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) on net short positions in Liberbank, S.A. (Liberbank) shares under the Short Selling Regulation.

Nasdaq Named To Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index - Joins Nasdaq-Listed Companies Including Biogen, Cisco And Microsoft

Date 12/09/2017

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced it has been selected as an index component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), one of the most prestigious corporate sustainability ranking efforts, for the second consecutive year. Nasdaq is one of approximately 160 North American companies included in the index, and one of only eight diversified financial services firms. It is the only stock exchange selected from North America.

London Stock Exchange Group Plc - Transaction In Own Shares

Date 12/09/2017

London Stock Exchange Group plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased through RBC Europe Limited, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2017, the following number of its ordinary shares of 6 79/86 pence each ("Shares") on the London Stock Exchange as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2017: