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NEX Group has appointed Samantha Wren as its group chief financial officer after Stuart Bridges decided to leave the company.

Euronext has appointed Alain Courbebaisse as chief information and technology officer as it nears the introduction of its Optiq trading platform.

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) will acquire Citi’s the Yield Book and Citi Fixed Income Indices, adding a fixed income analytics platform and further building FTSE Russell’s US market presence and index offering, it said this week.

GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its Americas Derivatives Awards for 2017. The results were revealed at a gala dinner at New York’s Metropolitan Club on May 25. Our thanks to all those who attended the dinner and competed for the awards.

UK corporates are preparing for the large UK banks to bring down their ring-fences, a move that could shake up the banking landscape and push more corporates to sign credit support annexes with their banks.

Sharon Bowen, one of only two sitting commissioners on the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has voted to advance budget proposals made by acting chairman Christopher Giancarlo, but also said the regulator was underfunded and should receive contributions from market participants.

IHS Markit on Wednesday unveiled its Outreach360 platform, a tool that allows counterparties to contact each other for regulatory and data gathering purposes as they work to comply with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II).

Moody's downgraded China's credit rating on Wednesday morning. Short swaps were well bid and the curve flattened as an initial response. However, sources expect risk sentiment to weather the storm and the recent curve steepening trend to extend, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.

On Tuesday, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) began disseminating real-time data over China's four largest financial information vendors, Great Wisdom, Wind, East Money and Emoney.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has set out which OTC derivative contracts will be treated as if 'traded on a trading venue' and subject to MiFID II and MiFIR transparency requirements, trading obligations and transaction reporting requirements.

Mizuho Americas has appointed Massimo Tassan-Solet to head of derivatives trading.

Acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Christopher Giancarlo courted the Fintech industry in a speech on Wednesday, promising to “transform” the agency into a “21st century digital regulator”.