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GLEIF And Five ‘First Mover’ LEI Issuers Successfully Conclude A Prototype Exercise To Identify Who Owns Whom In The Global LEI System - Starting In 2017, The Publicly Available LEI Data Pool Will Be Gradually Enhanced To Include Information On Direct And Ultimate Parents Of Legal Entities

Date 08/12/2016

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, and five ‘first mover’ LEI issuing organizations have successfully concluded a prototype exercise to test the end-to-end process of collecting and validating data on the direct and ultimate parents of legal entities that have an LEI. GLEIF will start publishing parent information in early 2017. Including this information in the publicly available LEI data pool will allow connecting the corporate dots globally with open, standardized and high quality LEI data.

Tullett Prebon Information And Quaternion Risk Management Partner To Enhance Transparency And Standardisation In Risk Modelling – Partnership Fuels Columbia University Research To Improve Understanding Of Systemic Risk

Date 08/12/2016

Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the leading provider of independent real-time price information from the global OTC financial and commodity markets, and Quaternion Risk Management, a leading risk analytics firm, have partnered to launch an innovative open source risk project in collaboration with Columbia University.

TAIFEX Lists New Contracts Tracking China’s SZSE SME Price Index To The Exchange’s ETF Product Offerings

Date 08/12/2016

On 1 December 2016, the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) listed new futures and options contracts on one underlying ETF linked to China’s stock market – the Capital SZSE SME Price Index ETF (TWSE code: 00643 (TWD)).

“Robustness Of Smart Beta Strategies” Wins Best Smart Beta Paper Award For 2016

Date 08/12/2016

ERI Scientific Beta is delighted to announce that its research publication, “Robustness of Smart Beta Strategies,” has won the Best Smart Beta Paper award in the Savvy Investor Awards 2016. Savvy Investor is a leading research hub for the institutional investment industry. The site has over 15,500 members, who between them download more than 12,000 white papers every month.

Fidessa's F&O Platform Wins FOW's Trading System Of The Year - Recognised For The Fifth Consecutive Year At FOW International Awards

Date 08/12/2016

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that its futures & options trading platform has been named Sell-side Trading System of the Year at the FOW International Awards. This is the fifth consecutive win for Fidessa in this category and follows a win in the same category, for the fourth year running, at FOW's Awards for Asia, announced in September. 

LME Steel Scrap Wins Industry Award On First Anniversary

Date 08/12/2016

The London Metal Exchange’s (LME) steel scrap contract last night won a prestigious industry award one year after its launch. LME Steel Scrap won the Futures and Options World (FOW) award for the most innovative new contract in the commodities and energy sectors, reflecting a successful year with more than 450,000 tonnes traded to date in 2016. 

Shanghai Stock Exchange Issues New Guidelines For Industry Information Disclosure To Enhance Sub-sector Regulation

Date 08/12/2016

Recently, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) issued the Guidelines No. 14 to 20 for information disclosure of the listed companies in the 7 sub-sectors of wine and spirits, transmission of broadcasting and TV, service for environmental protection, water production and supply, chemicals, air transportation, and agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. The guidelines will come into effect as from January 1, 2017. It is another important measure taken by the SSE, following the guidelines for information disclosure for 13 industries issued in two batches last year, in a bid to continuously strengthen the regulation and dynamically improve the rule system of information disclosure for different industries. An SSE official answered the relevant questions as follows.

Address By Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Secretary Ma Xingrui At The Launching Ceremony Of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Connect

Date 08/12/2016

Dear Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Secretary Hu Chunhua,

Dear CSRC Chairman Liu Shiyu, Dear SFC CEO Mr. Ashley Alder,

Distinguished Leaders and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is with great pleasure today that we are gathered in Shenzhen, the showcase of China’s reform and opening up at the historic moment to witness the official launch of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Connect. This is another major event in China’s opening up of the capital market following the launch of Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect. I believe this will definitely exert a positive and profound influence on the reform and development of China’s capital market and will vigorously promote the joint development of the financial and securities markets of the Mainland and Hong Kong, in particular those of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong. On this occasion, entrusted by Guangdong Provincial Party Secretary Hu Chunhua and Governor Zhu Xiaodan, on behalf of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Guangdong Provincial Government, Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Shenzhen Municipal Government, I wish to extend my congratulations on the successful launch of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Connect, and extend sincere welcome to all our distinguished leaders and guests.

Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange Adjust Requirement For Qualified Securities Offsetting Margin For Margin Trading And Securities Lending, Add More Underlying Stocks

Date 08/12/2016

Upon approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) have revised the “Detailed Rules for Implementation of Margin Trading and Securities Lending” and adjusted the requirement for relevant conversion rate of qualified securities offsetting margin (The conversion rate of any stock with static price-to-earnings ratio higher than 300 times or minus was adjusted to 0%), in a bid to further improve the structure of the margin trading and securities lending business, cement the management and propel the long-term steady development of the business. Besides, the two exchanges have expanded the scope of the underlying stocks for margin trading and securities lending to 950 underlying stocks from the existing 873 ones, among which 485 underlying stocks on the SSE were increased to 525, and 388 ones on the SZSE increased to 425. The above adjustments shall come into force on December 12, 2016.

Islamic Development Bank Lists USD 1.25 Billion Sukuk On Nasdaq Dubai

Date 08/12/2016

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) listed a 1.25 billion US dollar Sukuk today on Nasdaq Dubai, the region’s international financial exchange.