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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.
view more Solactive MicroSectorsTM U.S. Big Bank Index launches, underlying new MicroSectors ETNs
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.
view more S7P Dow Jones Indices-Index Dashboard: S&P Europe 350(R) Factor Indices Q1, 2019 view more ESMA updates its Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR transparency topics view more EU financial regulators highlight risks of a no-deal Brexit and asset price volatility view the Joint ESA report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System report New Amundi ETF on Xetra: Sustainable Emerging Markets Companies
The ETF reinvests company dividends.
view more HANetf & KMEFIC announce Kuwait ETF debut view more Major Swiss Stock Exchange SIX Lists XRP Exchange Traded Product view more
Monday Morning Memo: The EU action plan on financing sustainable growth has been hollowed by the European Parliament Even as the members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted for a unified classification system—the so-called taxonomy of sustainable economic activities-this new taxonomy won’t be used as a reporting standard for all funds. Instead of forcing all kind of funds to disclose how their portfolios are positioned with regard to the taxonomy, the MEPs decided only funds which claim they are investing with an environmental, social and governance (ESG) or socially responsible investing (SRI) approach will have to report how the fund is positioned by using the taxonomy. view more If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us
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.
Source: FT.com
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.
Source: Solactive
April 3, 2019--European equities got off to a strong start in 2019, as the first quarter of 2019 began with a bullish bounce, recovering from the late 2018 pullback.The S&P Europe 350 gained 13% in Q1.
All of our core European factor indices enjoyed gains in the first quarter.Benefiting from the risk-on trend, the standout performer in Q1 was the S&P Europe 350 Momentum, which posted a sizeable 17% total return.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
April 2, 2019--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its Questions and Answers regarding market structures and transparency issues under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).
The new Q&As provide clarification on the following topics:
Determination of the turnover to be used for the average value of transactions (AVT) calculation;
Money Market Instruments (MMIs);
Impact for systematic internalisers of an instrument changing liquidity status in between the systematic internaliser determination dates;
Reporting of prime brokerage transactions;
Source: ESMA
April 2, 2019--The European Union's (EU) banking, insurance, pensions and securities sectors continue to face a range of risks, the latest report on "Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System" published today by the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) shows.
The 2019 Spring ESAs' report highlights the following risks as potential sources of instability:
Uncertainties around the terms of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
Further repricing of risk premia and asset price volatility, which could be aggravated in conjunction with a less favourable macro-economic environment and the materialisation of a no-deal Brexit scenario.
Source: ESMA
April 2, 2019--A new Amundi Exchange Traded Fund has been available for trading on Xetra and Bö'rse Frankfurt since Tuesday.
With the Amundi Index MSCI Emerging Markets SRI UCITS ETF DR investors can invest in companies from developing countries that meet high sustainability criteria.
The benchmark index comprises companies with high and medium market capitalisation and is designed to measure the performance of securities considering environmental, social and societal conditions. The index excludes companies from the nuclear, defence, adult entertainment, alcohol and tobacco industries.
Name:Amundi Index MSCI Emerging Markets SRI UCITS ETF DR
Asset class: Equity Index
Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Market
April 2, 2019--First Middle Eastern Asset Manager to sponsor an UCITS ETF
KUW8 is the only UCITS ETF to provide targeted Kuwaiti equity exposure
Fourth ETF to launch via HANetf's unique ETF white-label solution
HANetf, Europe's first independent white-label ETF platform, is delighted to announce that the KMEFIC FTSE Kuwait Equity UCITS ETF (KUW8) will launch on London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana and XETRA in April.
Source: HANetf
April 2, 2019--According to its official website, Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX, has listed a Ripple (XRP)-based Exchange Traded Product (ETP) today, April 2.
As Cointelegraph reported in March, the exchange had already confirmed that it was planning to list the product, dubbed Amun Ripple (AXRP). Hany Rashwan, co-founder and CEO of Amun-the cryptocurrency derivative development company behind AXRP -at the time claimed that this is the first such product on the market:
Source: cointelegraph.com
April 1, 2019-- The European Commission has started an ambitious initiative with the commission action plan on financing sustainable growth. Even as this initiative was welcomed at the top level of the wider financial industry, there was some resistance with regard to the reporting duties for asset managers and mutual funds mentioned in the proposal.
As a consequence of this resistance, the European Parliament dropped some of the more wide-ranging amendments favorable to conventional asset managers at a vote on March 28, 2019.
Source: Refinitiv
