The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is the first global player in the Israeli market to embed blockchain technology into its operating business, utilizing it as the technological basis of a new Securities Lending Platform. Securities Lending is currently executed in the capital market, primarily using inter-bank mechanisms within, and if necessary outside, banking group limits. As a result, the market has not been fully exploited to satisfy the potential needs of economic agents. The purpose of this project is to create one central platform that will transform the Securities Lending market...

To cope with the ever-increasing number and complexity of cybercrime cases, enhanced international judicial cooperation is required. on March 6th and 7th, 2018, participants from more than 60 countries around the world met at Eurojust to gain a better understanding of the assistance available to practitioners in the pursuit of a common criminal policy toward cybercrime and the gathering of electronic evidence. The conference was co-organised by Eurojust and the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) within the framework of the Global Action on Cybercrime Extended...

Tradeweb Markets, the global marketplace for electronic fixed income, derivatives and ETF trading, and FTSE Russell, the global index provider, were named by the UK Treasury as the joint future providers for end-of-day reference prices for Gilts and Treasury bills. Tradeweb and FTSE Russell are working to collaborate to create the “Tradeweb FTSE Gilt Closing Prices” solution following the UK Debt Management Office (‘DMO’) announcement that it intended to withdraw from the provision of reference prices, and its decision to launch an independent review into successor...

The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group ended 2013 with a turnover of approximately 2.2 billion contracts (2012: 2.3 billion contracts). The total volume for 2013 splits into 1.6 billion contracts traded at Eurex Exchange (2012: 1.7 billion) and 639 million contracts traded at the International Securities Exchange (ISE) (2012: 632 million). This corresponds to a daily average trading volume of 8.6 million contracts, thereof 6.1 million contracts at Eurex Exchange and 2.5 million contracts at ISE. At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment was the largest in 2013...