EFSF Raises â¬5 Billion Through Two New Bond Issues
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) on Monday raised €5 billion in a dual-tranche transaction, issuing a new 10-year and a new 31-year bond.read more...
View ArticleStatement Of CFTC Commissioner Bowen On Dan Rothâs Departure From The...
I congratulate Dan on his long and fruitful career at the National Futures Association (NFA). Dan and I started our careers in finance around the same time – he in 1983 as an attorney at NFA, and me in...
View ArticleOpenDoor Appoints Robert Grillo As President
OpenDoor Trading (“OpenDoor”), a platform designed to improve liquidity in the U.S. Treasury bond markets, has appointed Robert Grillo as its President. He is the second senior hire by OpenDoor this...
View ArticleDME Announces First Fujairah Fuel Oil Trade
The first trade in Middle East fuel oil derivatives has taken place on the DME, the leading east of Suez energy exchange.read more...
View ArticleSemi - Annual Review of ATHEX Index Series
From the session of Monday May 30th, 2016 are effective all changes in the composition of the ATHEX Index Series in the context of the regular semi-annual review of their composition.read more...
View ArticleIrish Stock Exchange CEO, Deirdre Somers, Speaks At The ICMA Conference In...
The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) CEO, Deirdre Somers, spoke at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) Conference in Dublin’s Convention Centre today. Deirdre spoke on a panel about how...
View ArticleHellenic Exchanges S.A. First Quarter 2016 Financial Results - EUR1.9m Net...
The consolidated net after tax profits of the Athens Exchange Group amounted to EUR1.9m vs. EUR4.1m in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, reduced by 54%. The net after tax profits per share, which include...
View ArticleMontréal Exchange Closed - Victoria Day
The Exchange's offices and markets are closed today, May 23, 2016 (Victoria Day).
View ArticleSIFMA Develops Model Documents For Compliance With New MSRB Rule G-42
SIFMA has developed a suite of model documents designed to aid municipal advisors in compliance with new MSRB Rule G-42, on duties of non-solicitor municipal advisors. The Rule will be implemented on...
View ArticleRemarks From The 2016 FINRA Annual Conference, Richard G. Ketchum, FINRA...
Good morning and welcome to FINRA’s Annual Conference, this year is notable in several ways, including the quality of the program and roster of speakers and attendees. Each year when we come together...
View ArticleNational Futures Association CEO Daniel Roth To Retire - Board Begins Search...
NFA announced today that President and CEO Daniel Roth has announced his plan to retire in the coming year. NFA's Board of Directors has authorized the formation of a committee to conduct a search for...
View ArticleWeekly Announcements â May 23, 2016
We are pleased to announce Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within the Legal Scholarship Network...
View ArticleDeutsche Asset Management To Switch Three ETFs To The Bats ETF Marketplace...
Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS), the #1 U.S. market for the trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced that Deutsche Asset Management is switching the primary listing of three...
View ArticleThe Jacobi Stochastic Volatility Model. (arXiv:1605.07099v1 [q-fin.MF])
We introduce a novel stochastic volatility model where the squared volatility of the asset return follows a Jacobi process. It contains the Heston model as a limit case. We show that the...
View ArticleA note on optimal expected utility of dividend payments with proportional...
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the expected discounted utility of dividend payments for an insurance company that controls risk exposure by purchasing proportional reinsurance. We...
View ArticleMinimal Investment Risk of Portfolio Optimization Problem with Budget and...
In the present paper, the minimal investment risk for a portfolio optimization problem with imposed budget and investment concentration constraints is considered using replica analysis. Since the...
View ArticlePortfolio Optimization Problem with Non-identical Variances of Asset Returns...
The portfolio optimization problem in which the variances of the return rates of assets are not identical is analyzed in this paper using the methodology of statistical mechanical informatics,...
View ArticleAsymptotic Eigenvalue Distribution of Wishart Matrices whose Components are...
In the present work, eigenvalue distributions defined by a random rectangular matrix whose components are neither independently nor identically distributed are analyzed using replica analysis and...
View ArticleThe impact of the financial crisis on the long-range memory of European...
This paper investigates the presence of long memory in corporate bond and stock indices of six European Union countries from July 1998 to February 2015. We compute the Hurst exponent by means of the...
View ArticleFIA President And CEO Walt Lukken Statement On NFA President Dan Roth's...
Upon the announcement that National Futures Association (NFA) president and CEO Dan Roth is retiring, FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken released the following statement thanking him for his service to...
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