12/15 Exchange Newswire

ICE completed sale of Trayport to TMX in exchange for NGX, Shorcan Energy and £350m cash

BVC and Deceval are now a single organization, after the closing of the transaction and the share exchange. As a result of this integration, Deceval becomes the main subsidiary of BVC.

DB1 considers launching Bitcoin futures, according to CityAM.

DB1 Regulatory Reporting Hub service was chosen by several major financial institutions. BaFin determined that DB1’s ARM (Approved Reporting Mechanism) and APA (Approved Publication Arrangement) services are compliant with all relevant MiFID II requirements.

CBOE DataShop will add historical spot foreign exchange data from Cboe FX to its range of offerings beginning today.

HKEX announced the conclusions to the New Board Concept Paper. HKEX has determined to proceed to expand Hong Kong’s listing regime to facilitate listings of companies from emerging and innovative sectors. HKEX also published today the consultation conclusions on the Consultation Paper on the Review of the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) and Changes to the GEM and Main Board Listing Rules.

HKEX CEO Charles Li has called for changes to the Main Board to welcome new economy companies with weighted voting rights structures and pre-revenue firms from the biotech and life sciences sectors. Li says the changes are necessary to make Hong Kong’s relevance and competitiveness.

MOEX: the Bank of Russia accredited NSD's Valuation Center for determining the value of ruble-denominated bonds. The Valuation Center’s product is distributed via Bloomberg, Cbonds, Thomson Reuters, Interfax, and the Moscow Exchange.

Bursa Malaysia introduced Good-Till-Cancel, Stop Market and Stop Limit orders.

Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) and Qatar Development Bank (QDB) signed a MoU to collaborate in identifying small and medium sized enterprises (“SMEs”) for possible listing on the Qatar Exchange Venture Market (“QEVM”).

Liquidnet added protocols and smart execution tools that direct corporate bonds orders to the most appropriate execution methods, from anonymous trading to fully lit markets.

SEC named Kenneth A. Johnson as COO. Mr. Johnson has served as Acting COO since February 2017.

Nadex submitted to the CFTC its intent to list new Bitcoin Spread Contracts, based on the underlying USD TeraBit Price Index.

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