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IPC Launches Industry Leading Fixed Income Marketplace - Pioneering Solution To Enable Liquidity Sourcing, Link Market Participants And Facilitate Secure, Compliant All-To-All Trading

Date 08/06/2016

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that it has launched Fixed Income Marketplace, a premier holistic connectivity solution for market participants to trade fixed income instruments electronically or via voice. The announcement was made at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston, an annual gathering of senior fixed income traders and portfolio managers.  

Euronext Announces Quarterly June 2016 Review Results Of The BEL 20®, BEL Mid® And BEL Small®

Date 08/06/2016

Euronext today announced the results of the quarterly review of the  BEL 20®, BEL Mid® and BEL Small®. The changes will be effective from Monday 20 June 2016.

Torstone’s Inferno Goes Live In Myanmar’s Securities Market - Emphasises Further Commitment To The Asian Market

Date 08/06/2016

Torstone Technology, the leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that a Myanmar-based broker has begun using Inferno, Torstone’s post-trade securities and derivatives processing system. Inferno will process the broker’s post-trade flow of its equities execution business. Inferno covers the whole trade life-cycle from trade capture through to settlement, accounting and reconciliation.

TOM Liquidity Report May 2016

Date 08/06/2016

Click here to access the Markit report analyzing liquidity for Dutch equity derivatives for the month of May 2016.

Quayle Munro Advises RigData On Its Sale To S&P Global Platts

Date 08/06/2016

Quayle Munro is pleased to announce that it has advised RigData, a provider of daily information on rig activity for the natural gas and oil markets across North America, on its sale to S&P Global Platts. The purchase extends the S&P Global Platts energy analytical capabilities by strengthening its position in natural gas and enhancing the company's oil offering. Financial terms were not disclosed.

ESMA Issues Technical Standards For European Long-Term Investment Funds

Date 08/06/2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its Final Report and draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Regulation (EU) 2015/760, the European Long-Term Investment Fund Regulation (ELTIF).

Vienna Stock Exchange: ATX & ATX Prime: New Free Float Factors For BUWOG AG And Flughafen Wien AG

Date 08/06/2016

Today, ATX committee reviewed the calculation parameters for Austrian indices according to its index rules. For the real estate company BUWOG AG the free float factor increases from 0.7 to 0.8 due to the notification on the sale of shareholdings to institutional investors. After the takeover offer of Airports Group Europe S.à.r.l., the free float factor for the Vienna airport Flughafen Wien AG decreases from 0.3 to 0.2. The free float factor represents the portion of a company’s shares that are in the hands of a multitude of public investors and tradable on the stock exchange. It also impacts the weighting of a stock in an index. The changes will become effective on 20 June 2016. The next orderly review of the ATX composition is scheduled for 6 September 2016. 

London Stock Exchange Welcomes First Chinese Sovereign Rmb Bond Issued Outside Of China

Date 08/06/2016

• Mr SHI Yaobin, Vice Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Finance  and Harriett Baldwin MP, Economic Secretary to the UK Treasury open London trading
• Landmark listing of RMB 3 billion (£300 million) bond underlines increasingly strong financial ties between China and London
• London Stock Exchange established as world’s leading venue for RMB denominated bonds

Traiana Goes Live With Two New Banks On Harmony CCP Connect For Equities

Date 08/06/2016

Traiana, the leading provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, announces today that it has gone live with Barclays and UBS on its Harmony CCP Connect for Equities platform. These new banks will further enhance the netting benefits already seen by the market through automated central clearing of OTC equity trades.

Convergex Enhances Darkest Algorithm By Adding Greater Flexibility

Date 08/06/2016

Convergex, an agency-focused global brokerage and trading related services provider, is pleased to announce that it has enhanced the configuration options in Darkest, its liquidity-seeking algorithm, to provide greater flexibility, block-trading functionality and enhanced anti-gaming tools when trading in European dark pools. Convergex's Darkest algorithm is designed to dynamically source non-displayed liquidity from Regulated Markets, MTFs and broker-crossing networks, while maintaining anonymity. Darkest's proprietary methodology monitors liquidity conditions on an ongoing basis and adjusts its attributes to take advantage of the liquidity opportunities that are available.