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UK Official holdings of international reserves-May 2013
June 5, 2013--This monthly press notice shows details of movements in May in the UK's official holdings of international reserves, which consist of gold, foreign currency assets and International Monetary Fund assets.
These reserves are maintained primarily so that the UK Government’s reserves could be used to intervene to support Sterling, or the Bank of England’s reserves could be used to support the Bank’s monetary policy objectives. If such interventions were to occur, then they would be shown and explained in this release. The Background note at the end of this release explains more about the reserves, and about these statistics.
In summary this month’s release shows that, in May 2013:
No intervention operations were undertaken.
Movements in reserves and levels of reserves were as follows:
Borsa İstanbul Equity Market and Emerging Companies Market Trading Hours Change
June 5, 2013--Effective 10 June 2013, Borsa İstanbul Equity Market and Emerging Companies Market trading hours for the first session will be changed
as detailed below:
Opening Session 09:15-09:35
Call Phase (Order Collection) 09:15-09:30
Northern Trust Names Moore in ETF Admin Post
June 5, 2013--Northern Trust has appointed Fiona Moore as head of fund administration for its exchange-traded funds (ETF) business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Based in Dublin, Moore will be responsible for managing ETF administration activities for Northern Trust's clients in the three regions. She replaces Liam Butler, who was appointed head of Northern Trust's hedge fund servicing group in March.
Moore joined Northern Trust as part of its acquisition of Bank of Ireland Securities Services in June 2011, where she was senior relationship manager in its global fund services group.
ETFs escape unregulated funds crackdown
The sale of risky unregulated investment products to most private investors will be banned next year.
June 4, 2013--The sale of risky unregulated investment products to most private investors will be banned next year after the City regulator found pensioners and debt-ridden customers had been mis-sold the funds.
These unregulated collective investment schemes (Ucis), which have been involved in a number of high profile scandals, will still be available to sophisticated investors who meet certain criteria.
Turkish markets, lira up after conciliatory messages
June 4, 2013--Turkish assets clawed back some of the previous day's heavy losses on Tuesday as investor concern about anti-government protests across the country appeared to ease.
Attention was focused on a morning meeting between President Abdullah Gül and Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç who has apologized for the excessive force used by police against an initially peaceful group of protesters in Taksim's Gezi Park in recent days. Shares traded on main Turkish benchmark..
BlackRock launches cross--border ETF to grow European market
Cross-border ETF to be settled in international security depository
Designed to cut transaction costs, boost liquidity
June 4, 2013--BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, plans to issue Europe's first cross-border exchange-traded fund (ETF) in a move it expects will reduce trading costs and attract more investors to the product.
ETFs track baskets of shares, bonds or commodities and are traded like stocks. They offer access to indices without having to buy the underlying securities.
NYSE Euronext welcomes Vanguard as new ETF issuer on European markets
June 4, 2013--NYSE Euronext is pleased to welcome Vanguard as a new ETF Issuer on our European markets. Vanguard has listed seven new ETFs on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam, all of which are multi-listed in Paris, on 4 June, 2013:
ETF Symbol: VUSA
Listing date: 04/06/2013
ETF Trading name: Vanguard S&P500
Underlying index: S&P 500 Index
TER: 0.09%
ETF Symbol: VFEM
Listing date:04/06/2013
ETF Trading name: Vanguard FTSE EM
Underlying index: FTSE Emerging Markets Index
TER: 0.45%
ETF Symbol:VWRL
Listing date:04/06/2013
ETF Trading name: Vanguard FTSE AW
Underlying index: FTSE All-World Index
TER: 0.25%
BlackRock and Euroclear Bank announce ground-breaking plans to grow the European ETF market
June 4, 2013--BlackRock and Euroclear Bank today announce plans to reform Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) trade processing and settlement across Europe by issuing the first iShares ETF with an international security structure.
Unlike other cross-exchange listed ETFs in Europe, which currently settle in national central securities depositories (CSDs), the new iShares ETF will be issued and settle for the first time in an International CSD (ICSDs)-Euroclear Bank.
At present, all cross-exchange listed ETFs in Europe including iShares ETFs, are issued and traded on one or more national stock exchanges and settle in the national central securities depository (CSD) of the exchange where the trade is executed. This often causes inefficiencies when ETFs are traded across borders. By using a single European settlement location, it is expected the new international ETF structure will improve trading liquidity, ease cross-border ETF processing and significantly lower transaction costs for investors.
May turnover at Boerse Stuttgart climbs above EUR 7.8 billion mark
Surge in equities trading accompanied by rise in turnover from securitised derivatives
June 4, 2014--According to the order book statistics, the volume of securities traded at Boerse Stuttgart in May 2013 was in excess of EUR 7.8 billion, around 6 percent up on the figure for April.
Trading in securitised derivatives accounted for the lion’s share of turnover. Compared to the previous month, the total trading volume in this asset class was 3.6 percent higher at EUR 3.6 billion. At nearly EUR 2.1 billion, turnover for investment products was up 4.7 percent, while trading in leverage products increased to more than EUR 1.5 billion.
In May, trading in debt instruments came to roughly EUR 1.9 billion, around 5 percent down on the figure for April. At around EUR 974 million, the biggest share of total turnover in this category was attributable to corporate bonds, which put on nearly 9 percent compared to the previous month.
ING appoints Stan Beckers CEO of ING Investment Management International
June 4, 2013--ING announced today the appointment of Stan Beckers as CEO of ING Investment Management International, succeeding Gilbert Van Hassel who has decided to leave ING.
The appointment of Beckers has been approved by the Dutch Central Bank and will become effective 1 July 2013.
Van Hassel joined ING in 2007 as CEO of ING Investment Management Europe. He assumed the position as CEO of ING’s global Investment Management businesses November 2009 and is a member of the Management Board Insurance EurAsia. Consistent with the governance for Insurance/Investment Management Europe as announced on 13 March 2013, Beckers will report to Lard Friese, member of the Management Board Insurance EurAsia (MBE) who will also assume the responsibility for Investment Management within the MBE.
