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CBOE Holdings Takes Equity Stake In Eris Exchange Holdings And Companies Announce Strategic Product Partnership - CBOE And Eris Plan To Collaborate On Development And Distribution Of Proprietary Products, Services And Market Data

Date 23/05/2016

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) and Eris Exchange, LLC (Eris) announced today that CBOE Holdings has made a minority equity investment in its parent, Eris Exchange Holdings, LLC. Eris is a U.S.-based futures exchange group offering swap futures as a capital-efficient alternative to over-the-counter (OTC) swaps. Concurrent with this investment, CBOE will join Eris' board of directors.   

Thai Alternative Bourse's Firms Post THB 31.04 Bln Sales In Q1/2016

Date 23/05/2016

• Q1 sales stable at THB 31.04 billion (approx. USD 876.72 million), compared to Q1/2015
• Q1 net profit down 19.47 pct y-o-y at THB 1.78 billion (approx. USD 50.34 mln)
• Agro & Food Industry, Industrials, Consumer Products and Resources as top profit growth industry groups

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Approval Of Initial listing (ETF): DIAM ETF JPX/S&P CAPEX & Human Capital Index (DIAM)

Date 23/05/2016

Today, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) approved the listing of new ETF managed by “DIAM Co., Ltd.”. The ETF will be listed on Friday, June 10, 2016.

New Management Board: Christoph Boschan Presented As CEO At Vienna Stock Exchange

Date 23/05/2016

At today’s extraordinary meeting, the Supervisory Board reached a decision on the management boards for Wiener Börse AG and CEESEG AG. Christoph Boschan (38), currently joint-CEO at Börse Stuttgart GmbH and board member at EUWAX AG, was presented as designated Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The stock exchange expert previously spent 10 years working in leading positions at several German stock exchanges. Petr Koblic (45), CEO of the Prague Stock Exchange, was named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In his joint role as Chief Operating and Technology Officer (COO/CTO) Ludwig Nießen (58) will be responsible for operations and IT. The new team succeeds the current Management Board members of the Vienna Stock Exchange, Birgit Kuras and Michael Buhl.

LCH Spider, New Portfolio Margining Service For Interest Rate Derivatives, Goes Live

Date 23/05/2016

• LCH Spider enables margin offsets between listed and OTC interest rate derivatives portfolios
• Offers members and their clients significant opportunity to benefit from risk and collateral efficiencies
• Service available on an open access basis

MEFF To Start Trading Weekly Options As Of 29 June

Date 23/05/2016

MEFF, the Derivatives Exchange of BME, will start trading Weekly Options as of 29 June.

Deutsche Börse Cash Market: New iShares ETF On Japanese Companies With Focus On Sustainability Launched On Xetra

Date 23/05/2016

A new iShares equity index ETF from BlackRock's product offering has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday, 23 May.

HKEX To Introduce Additional RMB Currency Futures On 30 May

Date 23/05/2016

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has received regulatory approval to introduce its planned cash-settled Euro-Renminbi (RMB), Japanese yen-RMB, Australian dollar-RMB and RMB-US dollar futures on Monday, 30 May 2016*.

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Approval Of Initial listing (ETF): iShares JPX/S&P CAPEX & Human Capital ETF (BlackRock Japan)

Date 23/05/2016

Today, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) approved the listing of new ETF managed by “BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.”. The ETF will be listed on Friday, June 10, 2016.

EGX Honors Its Staff Outstanding Professionals For The Second Consecutive Year

Date 23/05/2016

As per the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) interest in developing its human resources and urged them to exert more efforts, EGX honored a number of distinct employees in a celebration held for the second consecutive year, where they received certificates of appreciation in addition to a financial reward in a recognition of their outstanding efforts during the year.