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ASX Group Monthly Activity Report – November 2014

Date 03/12/2014

The value of ASX-listed stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, fell 2.2% in November 2014. This performancewas in contrast to rises in other major markets, including Germany up 7.0%, Japan up 6.4%, the US up 2.8%, the UK up2.7% and Singapore up 2.3%.

Tokyo Stock Exchange ETF/ETN Monthly Report For Nov 2014

Date 03/12/2014

Trading value record high renewed for the second consecutive month!

• In November 2014, the ETF/ETN market renewed its record high for the second consecutive month, with monthly trading value of approximately JPY 3.99 trillion and daily average trading value of aboutJPY 222 billion.
• NEXT FUNDS JPX-Nikkei Index 400 Exchange Traded Fund (1591) recorded a 176.72% monthly gain in trading value and climbed from 15th to 9th overall.
• NEXT NOTES S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Net Total Return Index ETN (2044), listed on November 18, 2014, got off to a smooth start and ranked 20th overall.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – November 2014

Date 03/12/2014

New listings for the month were APN Outdoor Group Limited (APO), Bailador Technology Investments Limited(BTI), Ecargo Holdings Limited (ECG), Emperor Range Group Limited (ERX), IPH Limited (IPH), MedibankPrivate Limited (MPL), Mustera Property Group Limited (MPX), NAOS Absolute Opportunities Company Limited(NAC), Orion Health Group Limited (OHE), Pacific Smiles Group Limited (PSQ), PUMA Series 2014-4P (PUQ),Simonds Group Limited (SIO), The Citadel Group Limited (CGL), Tian Poh Resources Limited (TPO) and UILEnergy Limited (UIL).

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Reaches Settlement With ANZ Over Rural Interest Rate Swaps

Date 03/12/2014

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) said today it has reached a settlement with ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited (ANZ) regarding the sale, promotion and marketing of rural interest rate swaps to rural customers. 

SGX Update: All Securities Post Trade Online Systems Available To Members At 0600 Hrs

Date 03/12/2014

SGX updates that all securities post trade online systems, including the client-accounting system (CAS) hosted by SGX on behalf of member firms, have been available to its members since 0600hrs. This is to enable member firms to complete client position reconciliations, and rectify any errors in the end-of-day processing in the CAS for 1st December 2014.

SEC: Statement On Court’s Final Judgment In Case Against Life Partners Holdings, Brian Pardo, And R. Scott Peden

Date 03/12/2014

We are pleased that the court today ordered Life Partners, Pardo, and Peden to pay over $46.8 million.  In ordering this significant monetary relief, the Court recognized the egregious nature of their misconduct, noting that the Defendants engaged in ‘serious violations’ of the securities laws, that they ‘deprived the investing public of the information it needed to make a fully informed decision about whether to invest in Life Partners.’

Algo-Logic Systems Launches Datacenter Rack Solutions With Scalable Search And Switch For 10G/40G/100G Networks - Altera And Algo-Logic Systems Collaborate To Deliver Industry Leading GDN Datacenter Rack Solutions To Help Datacenter Operators Substantially Lower Their Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO)

Date 03/12/2014

Algo-Logic Systems, Inc., a recognized leader in providing Gateware Defined Networking (GDN)®, announces the launch of their highly scalable search and switch Datacenter Rack Solutions based on Altera’s Stratix® V A7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices.

KVH To Offer 10Gbps And 100Gbps Backhaul Service For Shima Cable Landing Station

Date 03/12/2014

KVH Co., Ltd., Asia’s leading information delivery platform headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, announced a new backhaul service in Japan that connects Shima Cable Landing Station (CLS) (Shima City, Mie Prefecture) with Tokyo and Osaka through KVH’s Ethernet backbone network. This new backhaul service, commercially available from December 15, 2014, will be offered in either 10Gbps or 100Gbps and augments KVH’s existing portfolio of backhaul services from Chikura CLS and Toyohashi CLS. Through KVH’s extensive domestic network, customers can extend these backhauls to reach 60+ major POPs and data centers across Japan.

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell Speaks At The Launch Of The Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development Foreign Bribery Report

Date 02/12/2014

Thank you for that kind introduction, and thank you [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)] Secretary-General [Angel] Gurria for inviting me to be part of this important day.  I want to commend you and your team for your work in compiling this significant Foreign Bribery Report, and I am honored to be here to celebrate its release.  Together, your team and the members of the Working Group on Bribery play a vital role in the global fight against corruption.

SGX: Securities Market To Start Trading At 1230Hrs On 3rd December 2014

Date 02/12/2014

The securities market will start continuous trading at 1230 hrs on 3rd December 2014, with the pre-open routine at 1200 hrs.