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Eurex: Agricultural Derivatives Segment With Record Trading In 2013 - Increase Of 7 Percent Compared With 2012/ New Record Volumes In Potato And Dairy Futures

Date 13/01/2014

In 2013, Eurex Exchange reached several all-time highs in its agricultural derivatives segment. The number of traded contracts of all products totaled 57,389 contracts, an increase of 7 percent year-on-year and 3 percent compared with the previous record year 2011. Further, a new annual record was set in potato futures with 53,947 contracts and all three dairy futures with a combined notional value equivalent of about 12,000 tonnes (equalizing around 2,400 contracts), a surge of 164 percent versus 2012. The achievements in 2013 are a clear indication that Eurex Exchange has become the leading risk management exchange in Europe for both potato and dairy futures. 

Iberclear’s Renews Its Mandate As Manager Of Renade - Iberclear’s Mandate As Manager Of The Spanish Section Of The Union Registry Is Renewed - Authorisation Granted To The BME Subsidiary To Be Valid Until 2017

Date 13/01/2014

Iberclear, the Spanish Central Securities Depository and a BME subsidiary, has won a tender to continue performing its ongoing functions providing support to the National Administrator of the Spanish section of the European Union Registry in relation to the European Union trading scheme of greenhouse gas emission allowances and the Kyoto Protocol, for the period 2014-2017. The mandate incorporates an option to extend it until 2019.

Clearstream Enables Direct Investor Access To ETFs Through Vestima - PIMCO Covered Bond Source UCITS ETF Is The First Actively Managed ETF Available With Daily Fixing At ‘Net Asset Value’ (NAV) On Vestima - Efficiency Gains: Investors Now Able To Buy And Sell Shares In This ETF The Same Way As Mutual Funds - ETF Also Traded On Deutsche Börse As Of 13 January 2014 - Further Milestone In Clearstream’s Efficiency Agenda For ETF Issuance And Processing

Date 13/01/2014

Clearstream – a Deutsche Börse Group company – offers investors for the first time direct access to an actively managed PIMCO Source exchange-traded fund (ETF) through Vestima, the largest global fund processing platform. The PIMCO Covered Bond Source UCITS ETF is listed on Deutsche Börse as of 13 January 2014 and is the first ETF directly available on Vestima at end-of-day net asset value (NAV), thus providing additional access to this fund. Investors are now able to directly buy and sell shares in this ETF through Vestima in the same way as for a mutual fund, thereby benefiting from Vestima’s proven efficiencies.  

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Court Dismisses Appeals Against Convictions For Manipulating The Market

Date 13/01/2014

The Court of First Instance today dismissed the appeals of a former broker Mr Chan Yuk Hing and his client Mr Paul Frederic Chane Yin against their convictions for market manipulation.

London Stock Exchange Announces Improvements To International Order Book

Date 13/01/2014

• Moves to bring Global Depositary Receipt market in line with SETS order book
• Underlines rapid development and growing international popularity of International Order Book

Traiana Selects Duco For Service To Reconcile Reference Data Ahead Of Deadline For Mandatory SEF Trading

Date 13/01/2014

Traiana, the leading provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, announces today that it has launched a new service to reconcile client reference data ahead of the introduction of mandatory electronic trading of swaps on swap execution facilities (SEFs). The new service, using technology provided by Duco, reconciles reference data from disparate sources provided by CCPs, SEFs, futures commission merchants (FCMs), buy-side firms and swap data repositories.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission Bans Poon Ming Pui For 10 Months

Date 13/01/2014

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Poon Ming Pui from re-entering the industry for 10 months from 9 January 2014 to 8 November 2014.

Deutsche Börse Commodities: Xetra-Gold Again The ETC With The Highest Turnover On Xetra In 2013 - Interest In Exchange-Traded Gold Products Remains High

Date 13/01/2014

Xetra-Gold from Deutsche Börse Commodities GmbH remains by far the most traded ETC on Xetra, as in previous years. Trading volume was around €1.7 billion in 2013. Xetra-Gold (DE000A0S9GB0) alone thus accounted for a good 28% of all ETC trading. db Physical Gold Euro Hedged ETC (DE000A1EK0G3) took second place and db Physical Gold ETC (EUR) (DE000A1E0HR8) took third. This means that the three top ETCs in 2013 were all gold products – just like in the previous year.

Dalian Commodity Exchange “Handheld Options” App Goes On Line

Date 13/01/2014

On January 10, via its official Wechat subscription account “Dalian Commodity Exchange”, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) released the news that it has put the mobile phone App of “Handheld Options” into operation on line. With the main functions of the game of simulated trading and the ABC of options, the App put online serves as one of the diversified marketing instruments for the cultivation of the options market.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Releases “Management Measures On Open-End Fund Business”

Date 13/01/2014

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has recently released the “SSE Management Measures on Open-end Fund Business” (the “Measures” for short), in order to support the innovative development of the fund market and better serve all participants in the fund market. The “Measures” was implemented as of the issuance day, and the “SSE Rules (Trial) on Business Lines for Subscription, Purchase, and Redemption of Open-end Funds” (Shang Zheng Zhai Zi [2005] No. 29) issued previously was abolished at the same time.