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Quayle Munro Advises Greentech Media On Its Sale To Verisk Analytics

Date 25/07/2016

Quayle Munro is pleased to announce that it has advised the shareholders of Greentech Media, Inc. (“Greentech Media”), on its sale to Verisk Analytics, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSK; “Verisk Analytics”). Greentech Media will become part of Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk Analytics business, and will enable Wood Mackenzie to provide its clients with market intelligence across several categories, including solar generation, energy storage, and smart grids that react dynamically to changes in supply and demand.

HKEX Successfully Launches Closing Auction Session For Its Securities Market

Date 25/07/2016

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today (Monday) successfully introduced its Closing Auction Session (CAS) for securities after extensive preparations and testing conducted in conjunction with market participants.  There were 290 Exchange Participants that took part and 282 stocks were traded in the CAS on its first day, contributing 2.2 per cent of the full-day turnover (more trading statistics can be found in the table below).

FSB Round Table On Compensation Tools To Address Misconduct In Banks

Date 25/07/2016

This note provides a summary of discussion at a round table hosted by the FSB in May 2016 to share experiences and lessons on the use of compensation tools to address misconduct in banks. The round table considered the processes for governing and applying compensation and related risk management tools to help better identify, mitigate and reduce misconduct risk. 

Disruptive Technology Comes To UK Share Trading With First Commission Free Platform

Date 25/07/2016

Freetrade has announced today that it will be launching its disruptive new platform for trading stocks and shares, which brings proven commission-free trading technology and fractional share dealing to the UK for the first time.

ESMA Publishes Updated Q&A On CFDs And Other Speculative Products

Date 25/07/2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today an updated version of its question and answer document (Q&A) on the application of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) to the marketing and sale of financial contracts for difference (CFDs) and other speculative products to retail clients (such as binary options and rolling spot forex).

Bursa Malaysia Registers Profit After Tax And Minority Interest Of Rm99.4 Million For The First Half Of 2016

Date 25/07/2016

Tokyo Commodity Exchange's Physical Market For Gold Launched Today

Date 25/07/2016

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) announced today that the launch of a new physical market for gold, “Gold Physical Transaction”. The number of executed transactions for the first trading day was 14.

UAE Securities Markets Gain Confidence Of Local And Foreign Investors - Achieving Positive Performance Backed By Strong Macroeconomic And Microeconomic Performance Indicators And A Legislative And Financial Supervisory System That Is In Accordance With Best Global Standards

Date 25/07/2016

Since the beginning of this year, the UAE financial markets have been witnessing remarkable recovery and have managed to absorb the multiple variables that have a positive correlation with the performance of world financial markets, such as plunging oil prices and the variables of the surrounding political geography, as well as the impacts of quantitative easing and the government lending policy pursued by Europe and the US, plus the fluctuating economic indicators and the Chinese financial markets.

ASIC Consults On Communicating Audit Findings To Directors, Audit Committees Or Senior Managers

Date 25/07/2016

ASIC today released a consultation paper about it directly communicating specific financial reporting and audit findings identified from ASIC reviews of external audit files to directors, audit committees or senior managers of companies, responsible entities or disclosing entities.

NZX Half Year 2016 Shareholder & Qrtly Regulation Metrics

Date 24/07/2016

NZX’s shareholder metrics for the six months to 30 June 2016 (1H 2016) demonstrate the excellent health of New Zealand’s capital markets and highlight the strong performance of NZX’s funds services business. A summary of NZX’s operating segments is below.