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ESMA publishes update on MiFID waivers from pre-trade transparency
August 8, 2012--ESMA published todays a revision of its waiver document (ESMA/2011/241) which provides information on the pre-trade transparency of trading systems already set up in the European Union and informs on the compliance of such systems with MiFID, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Pre-trade transparency waivers are an integral feature of MiFID.
However, in order to ensure the liquidity and efficiency of equity markets, waivers allow in a limited number of cases to deviate from MiFID’s trade transparency requirements.
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Source: ESMA
Fund launches hit five-year Q2 low
August 7, 2012--The number of newly-launched funds in Europe hit their lowest number for second quarter results in the last five years, according to the latest Lipper data.
The Fund Market Insight report revealed new launches dropped by 50% in Q2 compared to the same period last year, with 411 funds launched in 2012 compared to 838 for 2011.
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Source: CityWire
S&P revises Greece's outlook to negative
August 7, 2012--Overview
Following delays in implementing budgetary consolidation measures and a worsening Greek economy, we believe Greece is likely to require additional financing for 2012 under the EU/International Monetary Fund (IMF) program (EU/IMF Program).
We consider the Greek government will find it difficult to make further cuts to meet the conditions to secure the next disbursement of the next tranche of funding from the EU/IMF Program.
We are revising the outlook on the long-term ratings on Greece to negative, reflecting the possibility of a downgrade if Greece fails to secure the next disbursement of the EU/IMF Program.
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Source: Reuters
Spanish Trading Disrupted by Glitch
August 6, 2012--Trading in Spanish equities was disrupted for more than four hours Monday as a technical glitch hit the systems of stock-market operator Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles SA.
The outage, which began after the first hour of trading, came as local stock prices were rising on hopes that the European Central Bank may purchase soverign bonds in secondary markets to bring down borrowing costs of the debt-laden country along with those of Italy.
A spokesman for BME in Madrid said technicians were studying the systems to get a better picture of what caused the shutdown but couldn't comment further on the disruption.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Esma bowls ETF market a googly
August 6, 2012--The fund management industry was knocked for six on July 25 when the European Securities and Markets Authority,
one of the region’s main financial regulators, launched the final version of its guidelines on exchange-traded funds and Ucits.
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Source: Financial News
Retrocession ban still on the cards
August 5, 2012--An EU-wide ban on inducements for some intermediaries is still expected even if it is ruled out of the upcoming Mifid II directive, according to some industry commentators.
The European Commission’s move to ban retrocession fees is widely expected to be absent from Mifid II, after an influential European Parliament committee opposed the proposal.
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Source: FT.com
Global fund pool shrinks as launches on the wane
August 5, 2012--The European investment industry's seemingly endless roll-out of new funds is slowing dramatically as banks focus on building deposits rather than selling funds and investors become more selective in their fund choices in an uncertain economic environment.
Closures and mergers of mutual funds and exchange traded funds outweighed launches in the first six months of the year with 1,620 shutting down compared to 1,104 launches, reinforcing the trend at the end of 2011, according to data from Lipper.
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Source: FT.com
UK Official holdings of international reserves July 2012
August 3, 2012--This monthly press notice shows details of movements in July 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 July 2012:
No intervention operations were undertaken.
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July 2012
Source: HM Treasury
NYSE Euronext Monthly ETF Activity Report - July 2012
August 3, 2012--Listings
July 2012 saw three new ETF listings from iShares on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam:
Trading Name:ISH BEL TREAS BD
ISIN: IE00B7RRKB38
Symbol:IBEL
Underlying index: Barclays Belgium Treas Bond
TER: 0.20
Trading Name:ISH FR TREAS BD
ISIN: IE00B7LGZ558
Symbol: IFRB
Underlying index: Barclays France Treasury Bond
TER: 0.20
Trading Name:ISH NLD TREAS BD
ISIN:IE00B7L7Z140
Symbol: INLD
Underlying index: Barclays Netherlands Trea Bond
TER: 0.20
At the end of the month NYSE Euronext European markets had 687 listings of 593 ETFs from 16 issuers.
Trading activity
The average daily value traded on-book last month was €239.7 million, down 45.9% vs. July 2011. The total value traded on-book amounted to €5.3 billion, down 2.6% month-on-month;
An average of 6,4877 on-book trades (single-counted) was executed daily last month, a decrease of 26.4% vs July 2011, and down 0.31% month-on-month;
A total of €741.5 million was exchanged in block trades in July, up 1.10% from the €733.4 million in the previous month. Overall, block trade volume represented 14.1% of total regulated market ETF trading activity on NYSE Euronext.
Assets Under Management (AUM)
At the end of July 2012, the combined AUM of all ETFs listed on the NYSE Euronext European markets totalled €141.2 billion.
Market Quality
Several LPs expanded their LP activity in July. In total, 3 LPs took on liquidity responsabilities for 72 additional LP contracts on 65 ETFs:
SUSQUEHANNA took the lead on the 3 newly listed iShares ETFs, while also adding 34 new ETFs to their already extensive list: 2 Amundi ETFs, 7 db x-trackers, 2 EasyETFs, 22 Lyxor ETFs, and 1 SPDR.
COMMERZBANK built on their expansion seen in the beginnng of the year by adding an impressive 32 ETFs to their LP activity: 4 Amundi ETFs, 1 Credit Suisse ETF, 2 db x-trackers, 3 EasyETFs, 9 iShares ETFs, 12 Lyxor ETFs, and 1 SPDR.
OPTIVER started LP activity on a total of 3 ETFs: 1 Credit Suisse ETF, 1 db x-tracker, and 1 HSBC ETF.
view the NYSE Euronext Monthly ETF Activity Report-July 2012
Source: NYSE Euronext
IMF Country report-Russian Federation: Selected Issues
August 3, 2012--I. RUSSIAN FEDERATION-POTENTIAL GROWTH: THE PAST AND THE FUTURE1
Russia's fast growth in the past decade was driven mainly by TFP growth. The increased demand for capital was mostly met by heavier utilization of the existing stock. While some moderation of TFP growth is expected in the next decade, the scope for more intense use of capital is limited, implying that investment and capital accumulation should play a bigger role than in the past.
Given the unfavorable demographic trend in Russia, this highlights the
urgent need for structural reforms to improve the investment climate and labor participation.
A. Introduction
1. After almost a decade of impressive growth performance, Russia suffered a
sharp contraction in 2009 with GDP falling by 8 percent. The sharp and costly adjustments during the crisis raise important but hard-to-answer questions: how would Russia’s potential growth in the next decade be compared to that in the past; and what needs
to be done to help the Russian economy grow again at the impressive pace during the intercrisis period.
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Source: IMF
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