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Brexit chaos spurs record flows to sterling-hedged funds

April 4, 2019--Investors pour money into pound-proofed ETFs at a rate seven times that of a year ago

The UK's ongoing political turmoil over Brexit is driving investors into exchange traded funds designed to limit the impact of extreme fluctuations in the value of the British pound.

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Source: Financial News


New EU rules threaten to lock out US prop traders

April 4, 2019--Revisions to Mifid equivalence make opaque demands requiring "psychic abilities", warn lawyers.
Europe's new Investment Firms Regulation (IFR) risks locking out US proprietary traders with no legal presence in the region, market participants and lawyers warn.

This could drain liquidity from European futures exchanges, and there could also be costly implications for UK-based firms if Brexit sees the UK leave the single market.

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Source: risk.net


Commerzbank shares rise on report UniCredit plans to make a rival bid if Deutsche talks fail

April 4, 2019--A report says UniCredit is prepared to make a multibillion-euro offer for a sizable stake in Commerzbank.
Commerzbank would reportedly be merged with German Unicredit subsidiary HypoVereinsbank.

Commerzbank shares rose following a report that UniCredit stands ready to make a rival bid for the bank if merger talks with fellow German lender Deutsche Bank fail.

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Source: CNBC.com


Italy reportedly to slash growth forecast to 0.1%

April 4, 2019--The Italian Treasury is set to slash its growth forecast for this year and raise its projected budget deficit, according to two senior officials with knowledge of the draft outlook.

The economy will expand by just 0.1 percent this year, according to the draft, which is due for cabinet approval by April 10, the officials said. The government's previous forecast was for a 1 percent expansion and the new prediction is in line with Bloomberg’s latest survey of economists.

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Source: Bloomberg


EU Forms Blockchain Group to Streamline the Industry

April 4, 2019--In a bid to promote blockchain adaptation,the European Union (EU) has launched the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

The aim of the association is to bring together "industry, startups and SMEs, policy makers, international organizations, regulators, civil society and standard-setting bodies to support blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to be mainstreamed and scaled-up across multiple sectors."

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Source: financemagnates.com


UK official holdings of international reserves: March 2019

April 3, 2019--This release details movements in the international reserves of gold and assets held by the UK government.

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Source: gov.uk


Tabula expands range with global credit volatility premium ETF

April 3, 2019--Plans further products
Tabula Investment Management has launched the Tabula J.P. Morgan Global Credit Volatility Premium Index UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange at an ongoing charge of 0.50%.

The new product will offer investors a way to capture the difference between realised and implied volatility in the credit default swap (CDS) index options markets.

The ETF replicates the returns of the J.P. Morgan Global Credit Volatility Premium index, which sells options on the iTraxx Crossover and CDX HY indices (comprised of 75 European and 100 North American names respectively), while also applying a daily hedge to the credit spread exposure.

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Source: investmentweek.co.uk


European investors complain over soaring cost of data

March 3, 2019--Funds say exchanges are jacking up fees to offset weaker revenues from trading
European stock exchanges are locked in battle against some of their biggest customers, trying to fend off accusations that they are overcharging for the basic ingredient to every trade: market data.

In recent months disenchanted brokers, fund managers and electronic market makers have become more vocal in their displeasure over the rising costs to receive core information, such as the prices offered and paid for a particular stock, and the sizes and volumes of trades.



April 3, 2019--Europe's $850bn ETF sector fears no-deal Brexit crunch.

Europe's exchange traded fund industry faces an uncertain week after a ruling by a regulator threatens to split up the fast-growing $850bn market...In a notice to customers last week, the London Stock Exchange underlined the possible effect of Esma's ruling.

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Source: FT.com


Solactive MicroSectorsTM U.S. Big Bank Index launches, underlying new MicroSectors ETNs

April 3, 2019--Solactive is pleased to announce the Solactive MicroSectorsTM U.S. Big Bank Index. The Index premiers as Solactive's first joint collaboration with US company REX Shares, functions as the underlying for a series of long & short ETNs for sophisticated investors, and is linked only to the biggest U.S. banks.

With respect to conventional sector classification, the equal-weighted index captures the ten largest securities according to free-float market capitalization from the U.S. banking sector, giving investors direct exposure to system-relevant financial companies.

U.S. banks are one of the highly traded businesses. Their aggregated performance bears the potential to express views on earnings, stress tests, the Fed, the yield curve, and more. They present data, which monetary professionals utilize to derive health indicators of the U.S. financial system.

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Source: Solactive


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