Exchange Newswire
April 13, 2017
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- CME to launch Russell 2000 Index futures and options, as well as basis trade at index close (BTIC) functionality on the futures contracts, starting on 10-Jul-2017.
- CME head of marketing Christopher Mead resigned.
- DB1 supervisory board is reluctant to approve an extension of CEO Carsten Kengeter’s contract following the failed merger with the LSE, according to Reuters.
- B3 clarifies that management’s proposal to extend the Company’s corporate purpose does not trigger its shareholders’ right of withdrawal, in response to the Issuers Supervision Department.
- LSE purchased 60k shares at 3,232p per share, as part of its £200m repurchase program. Total purchases add 604.5k shares up to date.
- Central Asian Stock Exchange (CASE) and the Central Depository announced the first corporate bond listing in Tajikistan. OJSC "Bank Eskhata" will place corporate bonds in national currency, on 14 April 2017 CASE. The issue was structured by the brokerage company "Prime invest".
- FIA launched a tracker for US FCMs that provides industry-wide view of customer funds in futures and swaps.
- Asia Investment plans to create a new derivatives exchange in Singapore. Asia Investment is majority-owned by former China Financial Futures Exchange and Dalian Commodity Exchange chief Eugene Zhu Yuchen.
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