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Bursa Malaysia Berhad Announces Appointment Of Director To Its Subsidiaries

Date 02/06/2016

Bursa Malaysia Berhad announced the appointment of Mr. William Francis Herder (Mr. Bill Herder) as the Independent Director to the Board of Directors of its subsidiaries, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad and its clearing house, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Clearing Berhad (collectively referred to as Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Group), effective 2 June 2016.

Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes In May 2016

Date 02/06/2016

Moscow Exchange (ticker: MOEX) announces trading volumes for May 2016. Total trading volumes increased by 33.5% YoY to RUB 58.1 trln.

FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI June Semi-Annual Review

Date 02/06/2016

• One change to the constituents of the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI
• Nine new constituents to be added to FTSE Bursa Malaysia Mid 70 Index
• Three new constituents to be added to FTSE Bursa Malaysia Hijrah Shariah Index

UK's Financial Conduct Authority: Temporary Restriction In Short Selling

Date 02/06/2016

The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) notifies that it temporarily prohibits short selling in the following instrument under Articles 23 (1) and 26 (4) of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012. This follows a decision made by another EU Competent Authority.

SIFMA President And CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. Remarks At The 2016 SIFMA TCH Prudential Regulation Conference

Date 02/06/2016

Good morning. I’m Ken Bentsen, President and CEO of SIFMA. It’s a pleasure to be here.

I’d like to thank everyone for joining us here today at our 4th Annual Prudential Regulation Conference. SIFMA is pleased to once again partner with The Clearing House as we continue to navigate through and finalize the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other prudential rulemakings. I’d like to recognize The Clearing House’s John Court and the staff at The Clearing House as well as my colleague Carter McDowell and the SIFMA staff for collaborating once again on this important event. Your hard work on this important topic has helped this conference grow in popularity over the last three years to the point that this year, we are at full capacity and have a waiting list of attendees.

Nasdaq, Inc. Announces Proposed Senior Notes Offering

Date 02/06/2016

Nasdaq, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it plans to commence a public offering of U.S. dollar-denominated senior notes pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”, and such offering, the “Offering”). The Company expects to use the net proceeds from the Offering, together with cash on hand and/or borrowings under the Company’s senior credit facility, to fund the cash consideration payable by the Company for its acquisition of 100% of the equity interests in U.S. Exchange Holdings, Inc. (the indirect owner of three electronic options exchanges: International Securities Exchange, ISE Gemini and ISE Mercury) (the “ISE Transaction”) and related expenses and for general corporate purposes, which may include, without limitation, the repayment of indebtedness or the funding of other future acquisitions. 

Dutch Authority For The Financial Markets Investigates A Couple Of High Frequency Trading Strategies

Date 02/06/2016

As announced in its activity agenda for 2015, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) conducted an in-depth investigation into the trading strategies of high-frequency traders (HFTs) and their interaction with the trading infrastructure. As part of its investigation, the AFM documented the criticisms levelled at high-frequency trading, and studied two criticised trading strategies. The AFM is publishing the results of this investigation today.

EEX To Launch Non-MTF Power Futures

Date 02/06/2016

As announced in the customer information on 9 February and on 11 April, EEX intends to launch additional trading venues (non-MTFs) for German and French power derivatives in response to on-going MiFID II legislation.

FTSE Russell: Straits Times Index (STI) Quarterly Review

Date 02/06/2016

• No change to the STI constituents

FTSE Russell announces that there will be no changes to the constituents of the Straits Times Index, following the June quarterly review.

Thomson Reuters Enables Financial Services Industry To Manage Big Data Challenges With Intelligent Tagging Offering - Intelligent Tagging Is Designed To Empower Clients To Better Tag, Extract Meaning And Derive Insights Through An Enhanced Unstructured (Text) Data Tagging Solution

Date 02/06/2016

Thomson Reuters Intelligent Tagging clients can now deploy its capabilities behind their secure firewalls, enabling them to manage and potentially extract meaning and value out of massive amounts of data, and possibly more efficiently draw intelligence from them.