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Fidessa’s Sentinel Wins Another Compliance Accolade - Scoops HFM's Best Compliance Award

Date 24/02/2016

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that its Sentinel buy-side compliance product has won its third prestigious accolade in the last six months, winning Hedge Fund Manager’s Best Compliance Product at their Technology Awards this week. These awards recognize and reward hedge fund technology providers that have demonstrated exceptional customer service and innovative product development over the past 12 months.

Wheat Future Contracts Will Be Launched With The Cooperation Agreement Between Borsa İstanbul And Konya Commodity Exchange

Date 24/02/2016

Wheat Future Contracts with physical delivery through Electronic Warehouse Receipts will be launched upon signing of a cooperation agreement between Borsa İstanbul and Konya Commodity Exchange on February 25, 2016 in the presence of H.E. Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey. Within the context of this cooperation, Turkey will offer  local and international investors the opportunity to trade wheat future contracts with physical delivery, similar to developed countries with advanced capital and commodity markets.

Athens Exchange Group: Changes In The Composition Of The ATHEX Indices

Date 24/02/2016

Due to the merger by acquisition of the company «ELVAL SA», by «VIOCHALCO SA/NV» the following changes will take place in the composition of the indices.

OANDA Acquires TradeStation Forex Accounts

Date 24/02/2016

OANDA, a leading global provider of online foreign exchange (“Forex”, “FX”) and over-the-counter commodities and indices tradingservices, today announced an agreement to acquire all of the forex accounts of IBFX, Inc. (a/k/a TradeStation Forex), the forex dealer firm subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc., as IBFX exits the forex dealer business. 

Genesis Investment Management Improves Client Reporting Efficiency By More Than 40% With SimCorp Coric

Date 24/02/2016

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, has announced that Genesis Investment Management (Genesis) has selected SimCorp’s end-to-end client communications and reporting suite, SimCorp Coric, to replace the firm’s incumbent client reporting automation solution.

TMX Group Introduces TMX Insights - Technology Driven Capabilities To Support Client Trading And Investment Strategies

Date 24/02/2016

TMX Group today introduced TMX Insights, an integrated set of capabilities that provide financial content, tools and applications, as well as capital markets analytics. A number of existing capabilities have been grouped together under TMX Insights, including the suite of S&P*/TSX indices, risk management tools such as Razor Risk and TMX Security Risk Ratings, real-time options analytics, as well as eXplore TMX Innovation Lab, which was announced in June 2015. TMX Insights also features a new product offering, TMX Analytics, a data analytics product designed to help our clients make better trading and investment decisions.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Bans Jia Zhen For 10 Months

Date 24/02/2016

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Jia Zhen, a former account executive of China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Limited (CMSHK), from re-entering the industry for 10 months from 20 February 2016 to 19 December 2016 for breach of the SFC’s Code of Conduct.

UK's National Audit Office Report – Financial Services Mis-Selling: Regulation And Redress

Date 24/02/2016

The National Audit Office (NAO) has today (24 February 2016) published its report on financial services mis-selling: regulation and redress.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Concludes On Expanding Scope Of Short Position Reporting

Date 24/02/2016

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published conclusions to a consultation to expand the scope of short position reporting and on corresponding amendments to the Securities and Futures (Short Position Reporting) Rules (SPR Rules).

Russians' Credit Performance Steady After Four-Year Slide, According To Data From FICO And NBKI

Date 24/02/2016

Top Results:

• FICO® Credit Health Index for Russia has stabilized following a four-year slide
• 16 percent of Russian credit accounts are delinquent, more than twice as many as in January 2012
• FICO Credit Health Index measures the percentage of delinquent consumer loans and credit cards reported to NBKI, Russia's largest credit bureau