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Singapore Index Futures Impacted By April Dividend Schedule

Date 15/03/2016

• The MSCI Singapore Index (SiMSCI) is designed to measure the performance of the large and mid-cap segments of the Singapore market,with 26 of its 28 stocks also represented by the Straits Times Index.

The Nasdaq Stock Market® Lists NextShares, The First Exchange-Traded Managed Fund - Eaton Vance And Janus Among ETF Issuers To Select Nasdaq As Primary Venue For New Listings In February

Date 15/03/2016

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ), the single largest U.S. equity exchange by market share, announced during the month of February, the Eaton Vance listing of the first NextShares™ exchange-traded managed fund, and two new enhanced beta ETFs by Janus.   

SGX Electricity Market Report

Date 15/03/2016

SGX Electricity Futures (EF) added 56 lots in the first two weeks of March, bringing the total volume since trading started in June last year to 1,155 lots (1,269 GWh). Open interest as at the end of last week was 618 lots (677 GWh). Daily settlement prices (DSP) in the past two weeks for all contracts were between $55-$82/MWh, with the DSPs from 3Q 2016 onwards rising by  3%-5% compared to the preceding week.

Borsa İstanbul And Spintek Sign Network Provider Agreement

Date 15/03/2016

Borsa İstanbul has widened the scope of its collaboration with Spintek that currently provides services to Borsa İstanbul in London PoP.

SimCorp Survey Reveals Significant Struggles With Risk And Performance Analytics In The Front Office

Date 15/03/2016

A recent survey released by SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutionsand services for the global financial services industry, has revealed that portfolio managers are facing significant challenges when it comes to data accuracy and risk and performance analytics in the front office. The survey was conducted during a recent webinar hosted by SimCorp titled “Risk & Performance Analytics: Making the Front Office a Better Place.”

Liquidnet Fixed Income Surpasses $1 Billion Traded - Milestone Achieved Five Months After The Dark Pool Platform’s Launch

Date 15/03/2016

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced that their Fixed Income dark pool has exceeded $1B of volume traded, after just five months. Designed to provide a seamless solution for buy-side corporate bond traders, Liquidnet’s Fixed Income solution delivers a protected venue where they can trade natural liquidity in size, both safely and efficiently.

Finansinspektionen - Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority - Increases Resilience In The Financial System

Date 15/03/2016

FI’s Board of Directors has decided to raise the countercyclical capital buffer to 2 per cent as of 19 March 2017.

TMX Group: The MiG Report February 2016

Date 15/03/2016

Please click here for the February 2016 MiG Report.  

UK's Financial Conduct Authority: Former Equities Trader Pleads Guilty To Insider Dealing

Date 15/03/2016

Damian Clarke, a former equities trader at Schroders Investment Management Limited, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to nine counts of insider trading.  He will be sentenced on 13 June 2016.

SEC: Municipal Advisor Charged For Failing To Disclose Conflict - Case Is First Under Dodd-Frank Provision Creating Fiduciary Duty

Date 15/03/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Kansas-based Central States Capital Markets, its CEO, and two employees for breaching their fiduciary duty by failing to disclose a conflict of interest to a municipal client.  The case is the SEC’s first to enforce the fiduciary duty for municipal advisors created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which requires these advisors to put their municipal clients’ interests ahead of their own.