Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture and the derivatives marketplace CME Group are partnering to produce the Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, a monthly nationwide measure of the health of the US agricultural economy. The introduction of this new economic
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued two Opinions proposing amendments to its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTSs) under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). ESMA proposes to revise the RTS on
UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group’s global regulatory reporting platform, has partnered with regulatory reporting testing and compliance firm, Kaizen Reporting giving UnaVista clients access to Kaizen Reporting’s ReportShield service, which offers quality assurance testing of MiFID transaction reports at a
Barak Fund Management, an Africa-focused alternative fund management company, has chosen TFG Financial Systems to provide it with TFG Complete, TFG’s fully integrated middle office and risk management system. TFG will be supporting two new Barak funds, investing in the
Docupace Technologies, a financial services sector digital compliance and cyber security company, is now independent from RCS Capital Corporation. Docupace received a significant investment from RCAP in September 2014, as part of RCAP becoming a majority shareholder in the company.
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, has added a new non-deliverable forward (NDF) instrument – one month against the fix, to be called TOD/TOM. EBS Market is providing an effective electronic solution for trading today
Eurex and Korea Exchange (KRX) has signed a contract to extend their cooperation by listing Mini KOSPI 200 index futures during Eurex trading hours. In addition, Euro STOXX 50 futures will be traded and cleared in Korean Won on KRX
Ellipsis Asset Management (Ellipsis AM) has retained Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) to provide master-feeder solutions to support the distribution of its French flagship funds in Europe. Since January 2016, Ellipsis AM has launched two new sub-funds within its UCITS
BlackRock and Bank of America’s asset management business, BofA Global Capital Management, have completed a transaction transferring investment management responsibilities of approximately USD80 billion of AUM currently managed by BofA Global Capital Management to BlackRock. The assets of five taxable
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) has added 23 companies to its Registration Deficient or RED list. The RED list is made up of unregistered foreign entities that the CFTC believes are soliciting and accepting funds from US residents
