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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission Issues Restriction Notices To Two Brokers To Freeze A Client Account Linked To Suspected Account Hacking And Market Manipulation

Date 16/12/2016

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued notices to Interactive Brokers LLC (IBLLC) and Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited (IBHK) prohibiting them from dealing with or processing certain assets held in a client account which the SFC suspects are the proceeds of market manipulation and/or fraud conducted in conjunction with unauthorized internet trades in hacked securities accounts at other firms between 7 and 15 October 2015.
Exchanges Hold Steady Going Into Christmas And New Year Holidays, CME Group Best Performer In November, FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index Up By 2.1% For Month, 7.6 % Year-To-Date

Date 16/12/2016

Heading into the holiday season the FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index is steady with more than half of the publicly listed exchanges holding their share value during the month of November.
XBRL EU SBR Working Group

Date 16/12/2016

XBRL Europe has launched a new Working Group, co-chaired by Frans Hietbrink from XBRL Netherlands and Elina Koskentalo from XBRL Finland, to identify and provide guidance on best practices regarding the implementation of Standard Business Reporting. The overall focus of the group will be to educate those involved in the business reporting supply chain on the benefits of SBR, how it works and how to implement it. Specific tasks for 2017 include developing a methodology for describing SBR and its application, along with an inventory of present and new European legislation which impact the electronic filing, exchange, publishing and analysis of business information. Look for more information from this group after XBRL Europe Day on 16 February, where SBR will the subject of much of the program.
ESMA Updates MiFID II Q&A On Investor Protection

Date 16/12/2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has added new Q&As to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR).
XBRL US Forms Blockchain Working Group

Date 16/12/2016

XBRL US and ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company, have issued a call for participation to accountants, technologists and financial professionals to contribute to a new Working Group for developing standards for the tokenisation of assets on the blockchain. A token is a digital representation of an asset used to assign ownership and rights that are transacted through smart contracts (digital contractual agreements) on a blockchain.

FSB Consults On Proposed Guidance To Support Resolution Planning And Promote Resolvability

Date 16/12/2016

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has today issued for consultation two proposals for guidance on the implementation of its resolution standards which form part of the overall policy framework to end “too-big-to-fail”.
Mandatory Notification Of Trades - Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA

Date 16/12/2016

In connection with a monthly share savings plan for employees of subsidiaries, Oslo Børs VPS Holding has sold a total of 2132 shares. New holding is 11264 shares. Employees paid a share price of NOK 84,28 per share, but were allowed a discount of 20% on purchases up to NOK 625.
Avelacom Expands Its Pan-European 100G Fiber Network To Support Demand For Low Latency Data Flow

Date 16/12/2016

Avelacom has completed a new segment of DWDM network, designed to be the lowest latency route between London – Moscow. The project includes deploying 900 km of terrestrial fibre and three new points of presence (PoPs) across Europe: in Amsterdam, Bremen and Helsinki. The backbone is connected to Cinia’s C-Lion cable in the Baltic sea and Avelacom’s fiber network in Russia. The latest update helps to achieve sub-35 millisecond latency (round-trip delay) London to Moscow.
Response To Which? Super-Complaint: UK’s Payment Systems Regulator Kick-Starts Industry-Wide Effort To Tackle Payment Scams - PSR Kick-Starts Industry-Wide Effort To Tackle Payment Scams

Date 16/12/2016

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), the economic regulator for the £75 trillion UK payment systems industry, has announced the start of a concerted and coordinated industry-wide effort to tackle payment scams.
Remarks By President Donald Tusk After The European Council Meeting On 15 December 2016

Date 16/12/2016

Moving on to Brexit, the EU27 had a short informal meeting where we finalized procedural arrangements and reconfirmed our principles, meaning the indivisibility of the four freedoms, the balance of rights and obligations and the rule "no negotiations without notification". We adopted the organisational structure with the European Council maintaining political control over the process, and the Commission as the Union's negotiator. And Michel Barnier as the Commission's Chief Negotiator.