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Opening Remarks Before The SEC Advisory Committee On Small And Emerging Companies - Chair Mary Jo White

Date 19/07/2016

Thank you, Steve and Sara, and welcome back, everyone.  These dog days of summer often motivate people to get out of Washington D.C., so we appreciate that you are here today.  I will make just a few short comments on each of your agenda items and a word on what has happened so far in the crowdfunding space.

A Complete Leadership Vacuum In UK Financial Services Post-Brexit Leaves - Other EU Financial Centres Salivating As The Industry’s 1 Million Jobs Are Threatened, Says CISI

Date 19/07/2016

The UK financial services sector has been lacking a loud, visible champion communicator post-Brexit which is affecting UK sector competitiveness and threatening jobs, says the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).

IMF Cuts Global Growth Forecasts On Brexit, Warns Of Risks To Outlook

Date 19/07/2016

• Brexit causes ‘substantial’ increase in economic, political, institutional uncertainty
• Global forecast for 2017 cut by 0.1 percentage point, to 3.4 percent
• If not for Brexit, global forecast would have been slightly higher

Joint Statement On Improvements In U.S.-EU Regulatory Cooperation

Date 19/07/2016

Since 2002, the Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue (FMRD) has acted as a valuable forum between the European Union and the United States to inform each other of regulatory issues of interest and concern.  With the worst of the global financial crisis now behind us, there has been significant law- and rule-making activity worldwide, largely, but not exclusively, spearheaded by the G-20 reform agenda.  Confidence in both financial systems is returning, but continued cooperation to achieve regulatory objectives remains warranted.  This strengthens the case for even more purposeful bilateral regulatory cooperation geared towards the further promotion of financial stability; investor and consumer protection; fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and capital formation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Thomson Reuters Adds Futures And Options Execution Application For Commodities Traders In Eikon - Commodities Traders Now Able To Execute Futures And Options Directly From Thomson Reuters Eikon Using OptionsCity Software App, Helping Eliminate Expensive Duplicate Fees For Market Data Services

Date 19/07/2016

Energy and commodities traders can now execute futures and options orders directly from Thomson Reuters Eikon, helping reduce the need to pay for expensive market data fees across multiple platforms without sacrificing functionality.  The service is provided through City Execution, a third party app developed by OptionsCity Software and now available via App Studio on Thomson Reuters Eikon.  

Vela Announces New Appointments To Support Global Sales And Marketing Growth - New Hires Located In London, New York And Chicago

Date 19/07/2016

Vela Trading Technologies, a global leader in high performance trading and market data technology, today announced the appointment of seven new hires in the team led by Rob Lane, Global Head of Sales and Marketing. The new personnel bring a range of complementary experiences to the company that, with the new branding, reinforces the focus on creating and providing leading-edge financial technology, with a strong emphasis on satisfying client requirements and global delivery.

WisdomTree Lists Six Exchange-Traded Funds on Toronto Stock Exchange - Market open ceremony welcomes TSX's fifth new ETF provider in 2016

Date 19/07/2016

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) welcomes WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (WisdomTree), the industry's ninth largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider globally, to the Exchange. WisdomTree will open the market this morning to celebrate the launch of six new Canadian ETFs, which began trading on TSX last Thursday.

Trading Volume Of New USD/RUB FX Futures Hits RUB 415 Million On The First Day

Date 19/07/2016

Moscow Exchange launched a new deliverable USD/RUB FX futures contract on Monday 18 July 2016. Participants executed 65 trades totaling RUB 415.7 million on the first trading day of the new product.

NICE Actimize Signs Agreement With Tableau And Launches Visual Analytics Solution - Actimize Visual Analytics Offers Business Intelligence To Provide Deeper Insights Into Financial Crime And Compliance Risks

Date 19/07/2016

NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) business and the largest and broadest provider of a single financial crime, risk and compliance software platform for the financial services industry, and Tableau Software have entered into a joint technology agreement to apply business intelligence capabilities to financial crime compliance and prevention (or “risk management”). Leveraging that partnership, NICE Actimize is launching its Visual Analytics Solution to offer powerful visualization and deeper insights into an organization’s financial crime and compliance risks.

Liquidnet Unlocks Hidden Corporate Bond Liquidity With Powerful New Trading Tool - Targeted Invitations Empowers Buy-Side Firms To Seek Out Latent Market Liquidity With Anonymity And Precision

Date 19/07/2016

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, announced today the launch of Fixed Income Targeted Invitations, a tool to seek latent liquidity across its critical mass of institutional participants, for the U.S. and EMEA.