November 13 (SeeNews) - Following is a selection of top stories and interviews moved by SeeNews over the past week:
ROMANIA'S PRESIDENT NOMINATES FORMER EU COMMISSIONER CIOLOS AS PM-DESIGNATE
Romanian president Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday nominated former European agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos as prime minister designate to replace Victor Ponta who stepped down under public pressure last week. Read more at: http://bit.ly/1M3ZkBl
LATEST RESULTS SHOW INCUMBENTS CUTTING CONSERVATIVES' LEAD IN CROATIAN VOTE - REPORT
The latest results from Croatia's State Electoral Commission, DIP, show the alliance around the ruling Social Democratic Party (SDP) cutting slightly the lead that the coalition led by the conservative HDZ was earlier projected to have in the country's parliamentary elections, state-run news broadcaster HRT reported on Monday.
Read more at: http://bit.ly/1SNJ6i8 and http://bit.ly/1WIxlze
AIR SERBIA TO LAUNCH NON-STOP SERVICE TO NEW YORK York JFK IN JUNE 2016
National flag carrier Air Serbia said on Monday it plans to launch non-stop flights from Belgrade to New York JFK in June 2016, helping raise further the profile of the Serbian capital as a regional hub while reconnecting it with a large expat community. Read more at: http://bit.ly/1OItXjK
TELEKOM SLOVENIJE, APOLLO FILE JOINT BINDING BID FOR SERBIAN TELCO - REPORT
Slovenia's leading telecoms provider Telekom Slovenije [LJE:TLSG] has filed with US investment fund Apollo a joint binding bid for incumbent telco Telekom Srbija, Ljubljana-based state-run news agency STA reported on Thursday, quoting an unnamed, well-placed source. http://bit.ly/1Mpl2xK
INTERVIEWS
LIQUIDITY, VOLATILITY ISSUES ON FX MARKETS REQUIRE NEW TRADING TOOLS, CEE PLAYERS AMONG EARLY ADOPTERS
Increased volatility on global foreign exchange markets alongside dampened liquidity and tight capital and risk controls pose challenges to market participants that require new trading tools, Philip Weisberg, global head of FX at Thomson Reuters, told SeeNews earlier this week in a joint interview with Axel Jester, Thomson Reuters managing director for Europe East.
Earlier this week Thomson Reuters announced it has integrated all of its FX transaction venues - request for stream service (FXall QuickTrade), continuous streaming prices (Bank Stream), central limit order books (Matching, Order Book) and conversational dealing platform (Dealing) – on one platform, FX Trading. Users of the FX Trading platform will have access to liquidity venues that over the past 12 months have facilitated a collective average daily trading volume of $367 billion (340 billion euro).
Read the full text of the interview at: http://bit.ly/1PrpdPj