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CME Group Energy Complex Reaches All-Time Daily High Of 4.5 Million Contracts - WTI Futures Surpass 2.5 Million Contracts For First Time - WTI Options Set New Record Trading Nearly 580,000 Contracts

Date 01/12/2016

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, experienced a record high in single-day Energy complex volume with 4,510,408 combined futures and options contracts traded on November 30, 2016, breaking the previous record of 3,932,201 contracts set on February 11, 2016.

Key Figures SIX Swiss Exchange And SIX Structured Products Exchange: November 2016

Date 01/12/2016

• Trading turnover in November 2016 of CHF 125.8 billion (+36.6% month-on-month)
• Trading turnover in the first 11 months of the year: CHF 1,171.6 billion (-8.0% versus the same period in the previous year of 2015)
• Number of trades in the first 11 months 43,774,231 (-8.2% versus the same period in 2015)

SEC Charges Asset Management Fund And Manager

Date 01/12/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against Miami Beach-based asset management company Onix Capital LLC and owner Alberto Chang-Rajii, a Chilean national who fled the U.S. earlier this year.

EBA Updates List Of CET1 Instruments

Date 01/12/2016

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its fourth updated list of capital instruments that Competent Supervisory Authorities (CAs) across the European Union (EU) have classified as Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1). Since the publication of the previous update in September 2016, some new CET1 instruments have been assessed and evaluated as compliant with the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The list will be maintained and updated on a regular basis.

ICE Brent Crude Benchmark Sets New Daily Volume Record

Date 01/12/2016

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listing services, today announced that ICE Brent Crude futures achieved a daily volume record of 1,963,147 contracts on November 30, 2016. The previous daily volume record was 1,526,965 contracts on July 15, 2014.

MGEX Reports 7th-Best Volume Month

Date 01/12/2016

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), reports its 7th-highest total volume month, coming in at 225,377 contracts traded.

United Kingdom Parliament Treasury Committee Update: Chair Asks NAO To Examine Assurances Given To Nissan

Date 01/12/2016

Rt Hon. Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the Treasury Committee, has written to Sir Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office, regarding the assurances offered by the Government to Nissan.

Bats Welcomes PowerShares As A New Issuer To The Bats ETF Marketplace - 22 Issuers, 112 Funds Now Listed On Bats In The U.S.

Date 01/12/2016

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS), the #1 U.S. market for exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading, today welcomed PowerShares as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace with the launch of two factor-based funds.

ESMA Risk Dashboard No. 4 2016

Date 01/12/2016

ESMA’s 3Q16 overall risk assessment remains unchanged from 2Q16. Market developments at the beginning of 3Q16 were dominated by the strong reactions to the outcome of the UK referendum, reflecting high economic and political uncertainty. In the same manner, markets were taken by surprise and briefly disrupted by the outcome of the US Presidential Election in early November. Investment fund liquidity remained a concern following the temporary redemption suspensions by several openended UK real estate funds. From mid-July volatility abated and equity prices recovered, yet concerns about financials remained with banks’ valuations reaching historical lows. While main risks remain high, our outlook for market, liquidity and contagion risk is now assessed to be stable. From a wider perspective, the low yield environment and related sustained concerns with regard to excessive risk taking persisted. Geopolitical and economic uncertainty impacted on macroeconomic forecasts, weakening the EU economic growth outlook in the medium-long term.

Eurojust - Europol: ‘Avalanche’ Network Dismantled In International Cyber Operation

Date 01/12/2016

Yesterday, after more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police (Germany), in close cooperation with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the FBI, Eurojust, Europol and global partners, dismantled an international criminal infrastructure platform known as ‘Avalanche’.