CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it set a total open interest record of 116,999,368 on Nov. 23, 2016. The new record surpassed the previous open interest record of 116,427,935 contracts set on June 9, 2016.
read more...CME Group Announces Record Open Interest of 117 Million Contracts - Interest Rate Complex Hits 69.5 Million
BM&FBOVESPA Publishes The 12th Portfolio Of The Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) - Full Transparency Is A Prerequisite - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Have Been Added To The Questionnaire
BM&FBOVESPA announced yesterday the 12th portfolio of the Corporate Sustainability index (ISE), effective from January 02, 2017 to January 05, 2018. The new portfolio is composed of 38 stocks of 34 companies. The companies are drawn from 15 sectors and have a combined market capitalization of BRL 1.31 trillion, or 52.14% of the combined figure for all of the companies traded on BM&FBOVESPA, based on the close of trading on November 22, 2016 (in the previous year, ISE’s combined market capitalization was BRL 1.15 trillion, the equivalent of 45.68% of the total).
read more...Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For Week Ending 25 November 2016
A turnover of 639.439 million shares worth N6.455 billion in 11,799 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 823.547 million shares valued at N5.444 billion that exchanged hands last week in 11,634 deals.
read more...BME: RREF II Al Breck SOCIMI To Start Trading On MAB On 30 November
The Coordination and Admissions Committee of the Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB) has submitted to the Board of Directors a favourable report on RREF II AL BRECK SOCIMI,stating that the company is eligible for admission to the SOCIMIs (REITs) segment of this market, following a review of all the information presented by the company.
read more...Competition And Savings: The Regulator’s Perspective - Speech By Christopher Woolard, Director Of Strategy And Competition At The FCA, Delivered At The TISA Annual Conference
Speaker: Christopher Woolard, Director of Strategy and Competition
Location: TISA Annual Conference, London
Delivered on: 24 November 2016
Platform Capitalism
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of platform capitalism .
read more...Do Good Reports Mean Higher Prices? The Impact of Hospital Compare Ratings on Cardiac Pricing -- by Avi Dor, William Encinosa, Kathleen Carey
Is the American Public Corporation in Trouble? -- by Kathleen Kahle, Rene M. Stulz
A Shadow Rate New Keynesian Model -- by Jing Cynthia Wu, Ji Zhang
Laws, Educational Outcomes, and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from the Full Count 1940 Census -- by Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall, Melvin Stephens, Jr.
From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges -- by Shang-Jin Wei, Zhuan Xie, Xiaobo Zhang
Leaving Big Money on the Table: Arbitrage Opportunities in Delaying Social Security -- by Gila Bronshtein, Jason Scott, John B. Shoven, Sita N. Slavov
Immigrants and Firms' Outcomes: Evidence from France -- by Cristina Mitaritonna, Gianluca Orefice, Giovanni Peri
Joint Deutsche Bundesbank And Deutsche Börse Blockchain Prototype
Today the Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Börse jointly presented a functional prototype for the blockchain technology-based settlement of securities. The innovative prototype is designed to provide the technical functionality for the settlement of securities in delivery-versus-payment mode for centrally-issued digital coins, as well as the pure transfer of either digital coins or digital securities alone. In addition, it is capable of settling basic corporate actions such as coupon payments on securities and the redemption of maturing securities.
read more...ThinkLiquidity Introduces Patent Pending Transaction Scoring System
ThinkLiquidity Managing Director Jeff Wilkins announced the launch of a transaction scoring system featured in its new web application QuantView. The patent pending system delivers robust performance metrics on trades conducted over electronic trading platforms. QuantView data can be used by trade desks and risk managers to quickly and accurately assess order flow and improve risk management.
read more...Does the tone of central bank announcements have an effect on asset prices?
Joint research from Cass Business School and the Copenhagen Business School has found that the toneof central bank communications has a significant effect on prices in equity, fixed income and option markets.
read more...CME Group Chief Financial Officer And Global Head Of Commodities & Options Products To Present At J.P. Morgan Forum
CME Group announced today that John Pietrowicz, Chief Financial Officer, and Derek Sammann, Global Head of Commodities & Options Products, will present at the J.P. Morgan Fintech & Specialty Finance Forum, in New York, on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 8:00 a.m. (Eastern Time).
read more...Smart Contracts Symposium Draws Financial Services And Blockchain Leaders To Inaugural Event - Exclusive Announcements Planned, Smart Contracts Whitepaper To Be Unveiled
The Smart Contracts Symposium, the industry’s first event fully dedicated to smart contract technologies, is being held on December 5, 2016 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square, New York. Presented by the Smart Contracts Alliance, an industry initiative of the Chamber of Digital Commerce to promote the understanding and acceptance of blockchain and smart contract technologies.
read more...EuropeanIssuers Voices Issuers’ Vision Of The Capital Markets Union (CMU)
World Federation Of Exchanges Notes European Commission’s Initial CCP Crisis Management Proposal
The World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and central counterparties (“CCPs”), today notes the European Commission’s proposal for regulation regarding the recovery and resolution of CCPs, and welcomes the importance placed on consistency with international standards.
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