Faurecia issued a conditional notice of redemption on March 14, 2016 in order to exercise its option to redeem in full the €490 million of 9.375% Senior Notes due 2016 (the "2016 Notes").

Following the successful launch of its low carbon equity index family, Solactive AG in collaboration with South Pole Group sets the bar for fixed income low-carbon index solutions with its new Solactive SPG Euro IG Low Carbon Bond Index.

Much heavy lifting has already been done to raise European banks' capital ratios, as a new analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence shows —data drawn from 30 European banks, both eurozone and non-eurozone, shows that these institutions reported at the end of 2015 fully loaded common equity Tier 1 ratios of at least 10% and most announced leverage ratios of 4.0% or higher.

Carlo Calabria joins Barclays from CMC Capital where he was a Founding Partner having established this business in 2012.

Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, announced trading volumes for February 2016. The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was significantly up at 249,664 contracts (+10.5% compared with February 2015) and the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives was also up at 281,497 contracts (+6.3% compared with February 2015).