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Borsa İstanbul VIOP’s Revenue Sharing Based Market Making Program Welcomes Garanti Bank For Its Gold Futures

Date 10/05/2016

Garanti Bank joined Borsa İstanbul VIOP’s revenue sharing based new market making program for Gold futures. Effective from April 1, 2016, Gold and USD/Ounce Gold Futures were included in the New Market Making Program based on revenue sharing to further increase the liquidity of gold contracts. Garanti Bank is the first market maker that will operate under the New Market Making Program in Gold and USD/Ounce Gold Futures.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Expands Its Data And Analytics Platform To Include Flood Re Data - LexisNexis Presents Flood Re Information Alongside A Holistic View Of Existing Exposure And Building-Specific Information Through The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Data Platform

Date 10/05/2016

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a leading provider of data, analytics and technology, has added Flood Re data to its data platform for home insurers and insurance brokers. The addition enables insurers to automatically identify any property that qualifies for Flood Rei at the point-of-quote and understand the cost of ceding to the program. Together with building-specific flood modeling data already provided by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, insurers can make better decisions regarding the price to quote and whether to cede the policy to Flood Re. The solution is being used by several leading insurers and is available for both direct insurance business and broking channels. 

Turkish Ministry Of Science, Industry And Technology Has Approved Borsa İstanbul’s “BISTECH Research & Development Center” Application As Of May 6, 2016.

Date 10/05/2016

According to the Law on Supporting Research and Development Activities numbered 5746; Borsa İstanbul applied to the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Development on March 4, 2016, in order to be registered as a Research & Development (R&D) Center.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Good Delivery Material Price Differential For May 2016 Rubber Contract

Date 10/05/2016

The price differential of the Good Delivery material for the May 2016 contract month in the Rubber market has be determined as follows,

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 2.2 of the Rubber Delivery Detailed Rules, the price differential between the Good Delivery materials RSS No.3 and the non-standard grade RSS No.4 for the May 2016 contract month shall be -3.0 yen/kg.

IPC Launches Industry Leading FX Hub Solution - Enables Alpha Generation, Liquidity Sourcing And Risk Mitigation In The Global FX Markets

Date 10/05/2016

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 FX Hub, a low latency, co-located performance solution engineered to address the industry's most complex trading challenges. IPC's FX Hub is centered at the heart of the global foreign exchange markets, specifically Equinix's International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in New York (NY4), London (LD4), Tokyo (TY3), and Singapore (SG2) as well as other major FX centers such as Moscow, Chicago, Frankfurt and Zurich; all with access to IPC's vast community of financial market participants and positioned locally with low latency access via IPC's dark fiber rings to key FX liquidity providers and dealers.

ISDA - Cross-Border Fragmentation Of Global Interest Rate Derivatives: Second Half 2015 Update

Date 10/05/2016

The fracturing of the global interest rate swaps market that emerged in the aftermath of US swap execution facility rules coming into force shows no signs of reversing. Although concerns over market fragmentation have been apparent for almost three years, some liquidity pools continue to be split on US and non-US lines.

Brexit Bad For Financial Services Clients Says CISI Survey - CISI Survey Says No To Brexit

Date 10/05/2016

A majority of financial services practitioners have indicated that Brexit would be bad for their clients, according to the latest online survey by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).

Bats Europe Successfully Operates Exchange From Disaster Recovery Facility - Company Executes Critical Infrastructure Test On May 5, 2016

Date 10/05/2016

Bats Europe, Europe’s largest stock exchange, today announced the successful operation of its European business from the exchange’s disaster recovery (DR) office. The test constitutes a critical part of Bats Europe’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) process.

Warsaw Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics For April 2016

Date 10/05/2016

Warsaw Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics for April 2016 are now available:

For Main Market Statistics click here

For NewConnect Alternative Market Statistics click here

Thai Bourse Market Report For April 2016

Date 10/05/2016

• SET Index at 1,404.61 points, up 9.1 pct from end-2015, highest in the region
• Average daily securities trading value rose 3.0 pct y-o-y to THB 43.7 bln.
• Market cap at THB 13.7 trillion, up 8.7 pct from end-2015
• Foreign investors bought a net THB 12.7 bln so far this year, while being net sellers in April.
• Derivatives trading jumped by 8 pct y-o-y to185,463 contracts per day.