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Merrill Lynch fined £34.5 million for failures under EMIR
October 24th, 2017
Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £34,524,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report 68.5 million exchange traded derivative transactions between 12 February 2014 and 6 February 2016. This is the first enforcement action against ...
The European Banking Authority issued Opinion on the design of a new prudential framework for investment firms
October 19th, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Opinion on the design and calibration of a new prudential framework for investment firms, which is specifically tailored to the needs of investment firms’ different business models and inherent risks. The Opinion ...
Russia to ban Bitcoin Exchange websites, says Central Bank Official
October 10th, 2017
Russia will block access to websites of exchanges that offer crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, Russian Central Bank First Deputy Governor Sergei Shvetsov said on Tuesday. He called them “dubious”. Russian financial authorities initially treated any sort of money issued ...
Moscow Exchange launches FX fixing instruments
September 6th, 2017
From 4 September 2017, Moscow Exchange has offered instruments to trade at the MOEX FX USD/RUB and EUR/RUB fixing prices with clearing and settlement via its clearinghouse, NCC Clearing Bank. Russian banks including subsidiaries of large global financial groups ...
BBVA and Bloomberg join forces to offer structured product prices in real-time
June 28th, 2017
BBVA is the first dealer to give its institutional clients an automated way to build bespoke structured products and then calculate a tradeable price in real-time through a new Bloomberg function called the Derivatives Library, or {DLIB<GO>}. Institutional clients ...
CBOE Holdings Announces Next Stages of Technology Integration Plan
June 8th, 2017
CBOE Holdings, Inc. (BATS: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE) announced that C2 Options Exchange (C2), one of the firm’s derivatives markets, is planned to migrate to Bats technology on May 14, 2018. ● C2 Planned to Migrate to Bats Technology ...
Former director jailed in misappropriate investor funds case
May 15th, 2017
Mr Gavin Keith Hyland has been convicted in the Brisbane District Court on two counts of dishonestly using his position to misappropriate investor funds. In relation to the first count, Mr Hyland was sentenced to two years imprisonment and ...
HKEX Announces Plan for Physically Settled CNH and US$ Gold Futures
May 8th, 2017
First of their kind gold futures contracts denominated in CNH and US$ and traded on the same platform Physical kilobar (1 kilogram) contract ideal for Asia After-hours as well as day trading (nearly 16 hours of trading per trading ...
Year 2018 will come with significant changes in the rules for systematic internalisers, MiFID II and MiFIR
May 3rd, 2017
On 3 January 2018, significant changes in the rules for systematic internalisers will enter into force together with the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). While the directly applicable ...
Eurex released March report
April 5th, 2017
With further US interest rate hikes on the horizon and a looming end to Quantitative Easing, demand for market instruments to hedge risk has been growing strongly in the first quarter. Hedging needs are driven by open questions – ...
