First green bond lists on Borsa Italiana
March 13, 2017--Borsa Italiana launches new green bond segment
ENEL FINANCE INTERNATIONAL N.V. €1.25 billion green bond issue is the first to list on the new Italian segment
Builds on LSEG's commitment to developing a comprehensive green product offering
Borsa Italiana launches a new segment on ExtraMOT PRO dedicated to the issuance of green and social bonds.
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Source: London Stock Exchange Group
Sale of stake in Deutsche AM puzzles analysts
March 13, 2017--German bank plans to raise about €2bn by selling parts of its asset management unit.
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Source: FT.com
ESMA publishes first set of CSDR Q&As
Monday 13, 2017--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its first set of Questions and Answers (Q&As) on the CSDR, this follows the publication in the Official Journal of the CSDR Level 2 package (except for settlement discipline which are still pending).
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Source: ESMA
One Of Bitcoin's Biggest Funds Just Brought On An Etf Industry Power Player: Global Advisors Names ETF Industry Veteran Laurent Kssis As Interim Managing Director Of Bitcoin ETN Issuer, XBT Provider AB
March 13. 2017-Global Advisors (Jersey) is announcing ETF industry veteran, Laurent Kssis, as interim managing director of XBT Provider AB: issuer of world's only publicly listed bitcoin Exchange Traded Note (ETN).
Kssis joins XBT Provider as demand for bitcoin-based financial products, especially ETFs, is at all-time highs. Global Advisors sees underserved demand in key markets globally and intends to capture it with a series of products slated for 2017 and 2018. Kssis will be integral in this pursuit.
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Source: Global Advisors
Monday Morning Memo: Are bond ETFs a driver of growth or the next troublemaker for the ETF industry?
March 13, 2017--Bonds and bond funds, despite the low-interest-rate environment, are in general one of the preferred asset types of European investors.
Therefore, it is not surprising that promoters of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) also try to get their share of this asset's growth, which also explains the growing number of bond ETFs in the European market.
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Source: Detlef Glow, Head of EMEA Research-Thomson Reuters Lipper
Deutsche Borse launches Scale All Share Index
March 13, 2017--Deutsche Börse has added the Scale All Share Index to its index offering. The index tracks the performance of the recently launched Scale segment. As an All-Share index, the Scale index describes the overall performance of all companies listed in the Scale segment for shares.
The segment was successfully launched on 1 March 2017 to facilitate the raising of capital and to provide access to investors for small and medium-sized enterprises. The Scale All Share Index is calculated in real time and available in euro as a price and performance index. All stocks in the index are equally weighted.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
Lyxor-Monthly European ETF Market Trends - February 2017
March 13, 2017--European ETF Market flows continued their positive trend in February 2017. Net New Assets (NNA) during this month amounted to
EUR9.4bn, nearly twice the one-year average of EUR4.9bn.
Total Assets under Management are up 7% vs. the end of 2016, reaching EUR551bn,
including a market impact of 3.9%. Both developed and emerging markets
equity and fixed income ETFs saw positive flows in a risk-on environment
supported by an upbeat picture of macroeconomic data across markets.
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Source: Lyxor
Lyxor launches GBP-hedged version of US TIPS ETF
March 10, 2017--Lyxor has unveiled the Lyxor US TIPS GBP Monthly Hedged UCITS ETF (LON: TIPH), providing access to a portfolio of US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) while sheltering investors from adverse currency movements between the US dollar and the British pound.
It tracks the Barclays US Government Inflation-Linked Bond Hedged GBP Index.
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Source: etfstrategy.co.uk
Boerse Stuttgart New technical access for sell-side customers in bond trading
March 10, 2017-Boerse Stuttgart introduces innovative multi-access interface/Greater flexibility and substantial reduction in integration time and costs/Latest future-proof FIX 5.0 technology
The complex secondary market in corporate bonds is characterised by strict regulatory requirements and by a high degree of fragmentation in terms of liquidity. As a result, market participants place numerous, sometimes contradictory, demands on a trading venue that has over 13,000 listed bonds.
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Source: Boerse Stuttgart
EU prepares for Britain to trigger start of Brexit
March 10, 2017--Theresa May is likely to have the authority to invoke Article 50 by Tuesday.
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Source: FT.com
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