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Trading Technologies To Provide Access To GMEX Exchange For Its Customers - Financial Markets Engineering Supports GMEX Exchange

Date 04/03/2015

Global Markets Exchange Group Limited (GMEX), which operates GMEX Exchange, and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, are pleased to announce that Trading Technologies will provide its customers with access to GMEX when the exchange launches in Q2 2015. Connectivity through X_TRADER® will be available on day one of trading, while access through the next-generation TT platform will commence in Q3 2015.

Special Rural Development Tax To Be Exempted From Imported Gold Traded In The KRX Gold Market

Date 04/03/2015

The Korea Exchange (KRX) announced that the special tax for rural development that had been imposed on the imported gold to be traded in the KRX gold market (a gold spot market operated by the KRX) will be exempted with effect from March. 

NZX To Appoint First NZ Capital As NXT Market Maker

Date 04/03/2015

NZX is pleased to announce it has reached an agreement in principle with First NZ Capital to become the foundation market maker for NXT, NZX’s new market designed for small high growth businesses.

ASX Group Monthly Activity Report – February 2015

Date 04/03/2015

The value of ASX-listed stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, rose 6.2% in February 2015. This performance was comparable to major markets, including Germany up 6.6% and Japan up 6.4%, and stronger than the US up 5.5%, the UK up 2.9%, Hong Kong up 1.3% and Singapore up 0.3%.

NZX February 2015 Shareholder Metrics

Date 04/03/2015

Please find attached Shareholder Metrics for February 2015.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – February 2015

Date 04/03/2015

New listings for the month were Fiducian Group Limited (FID), Martin Aircraft Limited (MJP), Premiere Eastern Energy Limited (PEZ), US Residential Ltd (USR) and US Residential Trust (USR)

CBOE Names Five New Officers

Date 04/03/2015

• Stephanie Klein, Chief Marketing Officer
• Jennifer Lamie, Chief Regulatory Advisor
• Stephanie Marrin Lara, Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer
• Jordan Naylor, Vice President, Systems Development
• Steve Sinclair, Vice President, Systems Development

Thomas A. Kloet Elected To Nasdaq's Board Of Directors - Thirty-Year Industry Veteran Brings Exchange Leadership To Board

Date 04/03/2015

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that Thomas A. Kloet, former Chief Executive Officer of TMX Group Limited, the Toronto-based stock exchange owner and operator, was elected to Nasdaq's Board of Directors as a non-executive director. Mr Kloet was CEO of TMX from 2008 until his retirement in October 2014. 

Speech By Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen At The Citizens Budget Commission, New York , New York March 3, 2015, Improving The Oversight Of Large Financial Institutions

Date 04/03/2015

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today, it is great to be back in New York. The Citizens Budget Commission has played an important role over the years as a forum to discuss issues of interest to New Yorkers that are often also of national and even global importance. Given New York's preeminence as a center of global finance, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss just such a topic, which is how the Federal Reserve oversees the largest financial institutions, many of which are headquartered or have a major presence here, and how that oversight has strengthened since the financial crisis.

Comptroller Of The Currency Marks The 150th Anniversary Of The Freedman's Bank

Date 03/03/2015

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry today helped to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, known as the Freedman’s Bank.  In his remarks during a commemorative event at the National Archives, the Comptroller discussed the bank’s important history and how it intersected with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, during the Reconstruction following the Civil War.