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Winterflood launches 'watershed' fractional shares for ETFs
May 9, 2016--Winterflood Business Services (WBS) will offer trading and custody of ETFs on a fractional share basis from July.
The new service allows the trading and custody of ETFs to four decimal places.
It broadens access to the ETF universe for platforms, discretionary fund managers and financial advisers, which have been impeded by a lack of access, high transaction charges and the absence of fractional share dealing, says head of WBS Alex Kerry.
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Source: fundstrategy.co.uk
WisdomTree Launches Enhanced Commodity UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange
May 9, 2016--Demonstrating continued leadership in innovative index strategies to commodity ETFs
WisdomTree has launched its first broad-based WisdomTree Enhanced Commodity UCITS ETF (the "Fund") on the London Stock Exchange (WCOA)
The Fund tracks the Optimised Roll Commodity Total Return Index (EBCIWTT), a broadly diversified index whose weights are based on the Bloomberg Commodity Index and incorporates a smart roll mechanism, based on the S&P GSCI Dynamic Roll indices, that aims to deliver curve enhanced returns.
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Source: WisdomTree
National Statistics: UK official holdings of international reserves: April 2016
May 5, 2016--This monthly release shows details of movements in the UK's official holdings of international reserves, or assets. These consist of gold, foreign currency assets and International Monetary Fund assets.
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Source: HM Treasury
SSGA launches 10 ETFs on Euronext
May 4, 2016--State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched 10 World Sector SPDR ETFs on the Euronext Exchange.
The ETFs will be managed in Paris by the same team that has been managing the French domiciled World Sector index funds for the past 15 years.
view the European Economic Forecast Spring 2016 Turnover at Deutsche Borse's cash markets at 110.2 billion euros in April view more ESMA amends MiFID II standards on non-equity transparency and position limits view more
ESMA publishes results of EU central counterparties stress test view the EU-wide CCP Stress test Report 2015 If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us
According to its spring forecast, the Commission expects euro area GDP of 1.6% in 2016 and 1.8% in 2017 after 1.7% in 2015 (Winter forecast: 2015: 1.6%, 2016: 1.7%, 2017: 1.9%). GDP growth in the EU is expected to moderate from 2.0% last year to 1.8% in 2016 before reaching 1.9% in 2017 (Winter forecast: 2015: 1.9%, 2016: 1.9%, 2017: 2.0%).
Source: European Commission
May 2, 2016--MAy 2, 2016--Order book turnover on Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange across all asset classes stood at €110.2 billion in April (April 2015: €137.1 billion).
Of the €110.2 billion, €100.6 billion were attributable to Xetra (April 2015: €125.0 billion). The average daily turnover on Xetra stood at €4.8 billion in April (April 2015: €6.3 billion). A turnover of €3.7 billion was attributable to Börse Frankfurt (April 2015: €5.2 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled approximately €5.9 billion in April (April 2015: €6.9 billion).
Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Market:
May 2, 2016--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today 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 non-equity transparency-which includes requirements in respect of bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances and derivatives-and the RTS on the methodology for the calculation and application of position limits for commodity derivatives. The Opinions were produced in response to proposed amendments by the European Commission to these draft RTSs.
Source: ESMA
April 29, 2016--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today the results of its first EU-wide stress test exercise regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs).
The exercise is aimed at assessing the resilience and safety of the European CCP sector as well as to identify possible vulnerabilities.
Source: ESMA
