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STI 30 Unchanged After June Quarterly Review - Three New IPOs Gain Entry To FTSE ST Indices

Date 13/06/2013

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) and FTSE Group (FTSE) today announced the results of the quarterly review of the FTSE ST Index Series. While there were no changes to the STI constituents, three new IPOs were added to the FTSE ST Index Series – Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust, which joined the FTSE ST Mid Cap Index, and Asian Pay Television Trust and Croesus Retail Trust which both gained entry into the FTSE ST Small Cap Index.
Traiana Expands Harmony ClientLink Into Cash Equities And Fixed Income

Date 13/06/2013

Traiana, the leading provider of post-trade and risk solutions, today announces that it has expanded Harmony ClientLink’s cross-asset capability to the equities and fixed income markets with a number of leading brokers. As a result, Harmony ClientLink now offers the most comprehensive cross-asset straight through processing (STP) and allocation platform for banks, brokers and buy-side firms. Harmony ClientLink provides executing brokers and prime/clearing brokers with a complete client servicing solution. This will automate allocation, confirmation and matching processes and has more than 1,000 client connections across FX, exchange traded derivatives, equity swaps, cash equities and fixed income.
Hong Kong, HKEx Chief Executive Charles Li Live And Direct: Latest Charles Li Direct

Date 13/06/2013

With only two weeks to go until the launch of LME Week Asia in Hong Kong, HKEx chief executive Charles Li discusses what has been driving trading volumes on the metal exchange in the latest post on Charles Li Direct.
New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: Charges Laid Today Against David Ross

Date 13/06/2013

Charges have today been laid in the Wellington District Court against David Robert Gilmour Ross (63). The charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allege he operated a $400 million Ponzi scheme. They follow a joint agency investigation between SFO and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).
Japan’s Financial Services Agency: Publication Of The Report By The “Working Group On The Provision Of Insurance Products And Services, Etc.” Of The Financial System Council

Date 13/06/2013

The “Working Group on the Provision of Insurance Products and Services, etc.” of the Financial System Council (chairman Hiroshi SUZAKI, professor, Graduate Schools for Law, University of Kyoto) has deliberated 16 times on providing insurance products and services, etc., since June 2012.

Mitsubishi Corp Becomes DME Member

Date 13/06/2013

Mitsubishi Corp has today become the first Japanese Trading House Member of the DME, the Middle East’s premier international energy futures and commodities exchange.
Building A Multi-Tiered Capital Market Serving The Upgraded Chinese Economy - Speech By Song Liping, President And CEO Of Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Date 13/06/2013

I’m very pleased to participate in this program promoting Shenzhen’s financial industry to better serve the real economy. On behalf of Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), I would like to extend my warm congratulations on the opening of Qianhai Equity Exchange (QEE).
SIFMA Applauds House Passage Of Cross-Border Coordination Legislation

Date 13/06/2013

SIFMA today released the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., president, after a bi-partisan majority of the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1256, the Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act. The legislation seeks to address cross-border application of derivatives regulation under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act by requiring coordination in rulemaking between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
CFTC Files Enforcement Action Against Arizona Resident For Issuing False Account Statements And Operating As An Unregistered Commodity Pool Operator

Date 13/06/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a civil complaint against Thomas L. Hampton, an Arizona resident. The CFTC’s complaint charges Hampton with acting as an unregistered commodity pool operator (CPO) and issuing false account statements in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Exercise Of Ibovespa Options Generates BRL 7.66 Billion Financial Volume On BM&FBOVESPA

Date 12/06/2013

The exercise of options on the BOVESPA Index (Ibovespa) generated BRL 7.66 billion today, with 140,550 contracts traded. All of the volume exercised was in put options.