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  • Bank Of England: Monetary Policy Committee Announcement Dates For 2017 And 2018

    Date 15/09/2016

    Dates for Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announcements on Bank Rate and publication of MPC meeting minutes and the quarterly Inflation Report are now available.

  • Chubb Expands Cyber Risk Engineering Capabilities In The UK And Ireland

    Date 15/09/2016

    Chubb today announced that it has expanded its cyber risk engineering capabilities in the UK and Ireland, as it continues to invest in building its cyber enterprise risk management proposition in the region.

  • Bank Of England: The Monetary Policy Committee Holds Bank Rate At 0.25%, Maintains Government Bond Purchases At £435bn And Corporate Bond Purchases At Up To £10bn

    Date 15/09/2016

    Monetary policy summary

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    The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment.  At its meeting ending on 14 September 2016, the MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.25%.  The Committee voted unanimously to continue with the programme of sterling non-financial investment-grade corporate bond purchases totalling up to £10 billion, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves.  The Committee also voted unanimously to continue with the programme of £60 billion of UK government bond purchases to take the total stock of these purchases to £435 billion, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves.

  • Thai Bourse First Launches Mutual Fund Roadshow In Japan

    Date 15/09/2016

    The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Association of Investment Management Companies (AIMC) will organize the first “Thailand-Japan Fund Roadshow”, at Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan on September 16, 2016, aiming to expand foreign investor base in Japan, with 11 Thai asset management companies presenting Japanese fund managers the Thai mutual funds’ strengths and encouraging more investment in Thai capital market.

  • Theam Aims To Triple Assets Under Management In ETFs By 2020

    Date 15/09/2016

    THEAM, BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ specialist in capital-protected, indexed and model-driven management, has unveiled a new strategic plan for its indexed fund activities, confirming its intention to double assets under management in indexed funds and triple those of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by 2020.

  • BGC Partners Announces Launch Of Exchange Offer For Its 5.125% Senior Notes Due 2021

    Date 15/09/2016

    BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or the "Company"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced an offer to exchange up to $285 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.125% Senior Notes due 2021 (the "Old Notes") for an equivalent amount of its 5.125% Senior Notes due 2021 registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Exchange Notes").

  • KCG Completes Acquisition Of Neonet

    Date 15/09/2016

    KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) (“KCG”) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Neonet Securities AB (“Neonet”), an independent agency broker and execution specialist based in Stockholm, Sweden. The Neonet business, which will operate as a subsidiary of KCG and be renamed KCG Neonet, will continue to be based in Stockholm and led by CEO Tim Wildenberg.  

  • European Parliament PRIIPs Vote Leaves No Room For Relaxation

    Date 15/09/2016

    Draft legislation for the implementation of the PRIIPs Regulation was rejected by Members of the European Parliament today. The unusual move throws doubt on the implementation timetable but does not in itself reduce industry pressure to prepare for compliance by 31 December 2016 as the timeline of the regulation remains in force. While the vote has invited speculation that delaying PRIIPs would be a natural next step, any delay would result in PRIIPs arriving as firms prepare for MiFID II. As such, today’s decision leaves no room for firms to relax their PRIIPs compliance efforts.

  • No Clear Owner Of Chat & Collaboration Within Financial Services Despite Soaring User Adoption

    Date 15/09/2016

    MindLink, the leading provider of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for global businesses, has today announced the results of an independent study it commissioned regarding the use of chat & collaboration technology within the financial services sector.

  • Object Trading First Vendor To Conform To ASX’s New Trading Platform - Object Trading Preparing Clients For ASX’s Derivatives Platform Upgrade

    Date 15/09/2016

    Object Trading, a provider of global, multi-asset trading infrastructure, announced today that it is the first vendor providing market access to the ASX to have conformed to the upgraded ASX 24 (futures) New Trading Platform (NTP) from Cinnober, due to go live in early 2017.  ASX 24 market participants need to connect to the NTP in order to continue trading.  Clients using Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) Platform can adapt to the NTP upgrade with ease. As exchanges globally continue to innovate, Object Trading remains ready for the multitude of updates and upgrades that occur as a result.