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  • The Chicago Board Options Exchange plans to launch options trading on the FTSE Emerging Index next week, offering market participants exposure to the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced and secondary emerging markets.
  • The Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the French securities regulator, has set out its approach to new rules on research, introduced as part of the MiFID II package, which could see the volume of sellside research slashed. The French proposals could set the tone for the rest of Europe’s regulators, ahead of implementation of the rules at the beginning of 2018 — but it still leave questions hanging over fixed income.
  • The US Commodity Trading Futures Commission's split over whether to accept Japan's uncleared margin rules as equivalent to the US was not an ideal outcome. But the decision, however contentious, is a pragmatic step which will motivate further convergence between regulatory regimes.
  • Stoxx has licensed its newly created iStoxx FactSet Thematic Indices to BlackRock’s iShares to provide the underlying for four exchange traded funds.
  • Eris Exchange, the US-based futures exchange group, has opened a London office and hired a long-serving Barclays banker to oversee the European operations.
  • Credit investors have built up close to all-time record long positions in iTraxx indices, with the approaching September roll increasing reluctance to hedge against a potential move wider despite near historically low volatility.