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ISDA Appoints CCP And FCM To Board Of Directors

Date 09/06/2016

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has today appointed two senior executives from a central counterparty (CCP) and a futures commission merchant (FCM) to its Board of Directors.

NetOTC Announces Its Decision To Put Its Initiative For Margining Non-Cleared OTC Derivatives On Hold

Date 09/06/2016

NetOTC, the risk solutions firm that has been designing and building a full end-to-end market infrastructure for non-cleared OTC derivatives in close collaboration with regulatory and industry bodies, banks and their end customers, today announced that it had taken the decision to put its initiative on hold. 

NYSE Governance Services Announces 2016 Leadership Award Winners

Date 09/06/2016

NYSE Governance Services, a subsidiary of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ICE), today announced the winners and finalists of its 3rd annual Governance, Risk, and Compliance Leadership Awards. The awards program recognizes exemplary leaders in governance, risk and compliance.

MNI Russia Consumer Sentiment Indicator: Russia Consumer Sentiment Hits Record Low In May - Personal Finances, Buying Conditions Drag Down Sentiment

Date 09/06/2016

Consumer sentiment in Russia declined to a record low level in May, halting three consecutive months of growth.
 
Sentiment, which has followed a downward path since mid-2013, appeared to have troughed at the turn of the year, but May’s outturn suggests it’s too early to conclude that Russia is on a firm recovery path.

Alacra And OutsideIQ Bring Artificial Intelligence To Due Diligence Reporting

Date 09/06/2016

Regulatory SaaS technology leader Opus announced today that Alacra, its KYC and reference data management platform, has signed a distribution partnership with OutsideIQ, the leader in risk-focused, artificial intelligence software. The agreement will make OutsideIQ’s DDIQ, the industry’s most advanced automated due diligence reports for compliance, available on Alacra, effective immediately. DDIQ uses  artificial intelligence to simulate the cognitive processes of a human researcher to generate risk profiles on individuals and companies that are otherwise time consuming and costly to discover manually.

Warsaw Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics For May 2016

Date 09/06/2016

Warsaw Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics for May 2016 is now available:

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UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Bans Two Individuals For Lack Of Integrity

Date 09/06/2016

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Mark Kelly and Patrick Gray from working in the financial services industry on the basis that they lack integrity.

“NEMO Committee” Established To Manage Joint Responsibilities Of NEMOs Under CACM: MCO Plan Submitted To NRAs

Date 09/06/2016

Europe’s electricity spot exchanges that have been designated as NEMOs (Nominated Electricity Market Operators) have established the “NEMO Committee” to take forward their joint responsibility to further develop and operate the European single day-ahead and intraday market coupling - as required under the CACM Regulation (Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 of 24 July 2015 establishing a guideline on capacity allocation and congestion management).

KDPW_CCP’s First Foreign Clearing Member ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. Live On The Warsaw Stock Exchange

Date 09/06/2016

ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V., KDPW_CCP’s first foreign participant, has started to clear transactions on GPW’s cash and derivatives market. As a general clearing member of the KDPW_CCP, ABN AMRO will open access to the Polish capital market for investors using the bank’s global post-trade services. Increase in the number of active investors on the Polish capital market will help to improve liquidity on GPW and grow the trading volume.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange And Thailand Futures Exchange Sign Memorandum Of Understanding

Date 09/06/2016

Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) and Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX), announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which will establish a cooperative relationship between the two exchanges. Both parties agreed to exert efforts to develop areas of cooperation and business opportunities which will mutually benefit both exchanges and lead to enhancement of liquidity, efficiency, integrity of the two marketplaces.