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BM&FBOVESPA Adopts Greenhouse Gas Emissions Compensation

Date 23/10/2013

BM&FBOVESPA will start annual compensation of its greenhouse gas emissions that cannot be reduced, thus becoming carbon neutral. This initiative is being backdated to 2011 and 2012 and seeks among other things to encourage the adoption of best sustainability practices by listed companies and by the market as a whole. This course of action is also in line with the Exchange’s Sustainability Policy – approved by the Board of Directors in 2013 – and cements the commitment to business initiatives related to climate change.

NASDAQ OMX Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.13 Per Share

Date 23/10/2013

The Board of Directors of The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.13 per share on the company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on December 27, 2013, to shareowners of record at the close of business on December 13, 2013. Future declarations of quarterly dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to approval by the Board of Directors.

MarketAxess Reports Third Quarter 2013 Revenues Of $61.1 Million, Pre-Tax Income Of $26.4 Million And Diluted EPS From Continuing Operations Of $0.48

Date 23/10/2013

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 2013.

NASDAQ OMX Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results

Date 23/10/2013

• Third quarter 2013 net revenues1 were a record $506 million, up 23% from the prior year quarter. On an organic basis, assuming constant currency and excluding acquisitions, net revenues increased 4% year-over-year.
• Third quarter 2013 GAAP and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.66.
• Achieved organic revenue growth year-over-year in all three non-trading business segments, Information Services, Technology Solutions, and Listing Services.
• Non-transaction based revenues were 73% of our total third quarter 2013 net revenues, and increased 27% from the prior year quarter.
• Third quarter 2013 is the first full quarter to reflect the acquired eSpeed and Thomson Reuters IR, PR, and Multimedia businesses, establishing new revenue and operating profit base-lines.
• De-leveraging plan is on schedule, NASDAQ OMX paid down $98 million of debt in the third quarter of 2013.

MARF Authorises The First Registered Advisers And Members

Date 23/10/2013

The Board of Directors of AIAF has authorised the incorporation and registration of Arcano, Banco Sabadell and Solventis as Registered Advisers and of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Banco Sabadell and Bankiaas Members of the MARF (the alternative debt market for SMEs operated by BME).

EEX Increases Market Share To 25% Following All Time Record Volumes In September

Date 23/10/2013

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has seen a marked increase in its German power market share since mid-2012. During a press briefing in London on 17th October, Steffen Koehler, EEX’s Chief Operating Officer, commented that this gain in market share has largely been at the expense of energy brokers, with new regulation favouring trade-registration services offered by the German-based Exchange.

Tehran Stock Exchange's CEO Remarks On The Exchange's Recent Performance

Date 23/10/2013

Dr. Ghalibaf Asl, the CEO of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) had a press conference on Monday 21 October 2013 and provided a summary of TSE’s performance in the past 7 months since the beginning of the Iranian year, started on 21 March 2013.

NYSE Technologies’ XDP Powers The HKEx OMD Platform - HKEx OMD Platform Launches Successfully With NYSE Technologies’ Exchange Data Publisher (XDP)

Date 23/10/2013

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced that its Exchange Data Publisher (XDP) is the market data engine powering the new Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) Orion Market Data (OMD) Platform. Selected by HKEx for its industry leading, low-latency performance, XDP enables the HKEx OMD Platform to distribute market data packaged into value-added services tailored to different subscriber groups.

Bursa Malaysia Registers Higher Patami Of RM139.2 Million - Posts 21% Jump For 9M2013 Vs 9M2012

Date 23/10/2013

Key Financial & Market Highlights
(9M2013 Vs 9M2012)    

• PATAMI* at RM139.2 million, up 21%
• Annualised Return On Equity at 23%, up 24%
• Operating revenue at RM335.9 million, up 14%
• Operating expenses at RM163.8 million, at 45% cost to income ratio
• Average daily trading value for securities market at RM2.1 billion, up 20%
• Market capitalisation at end of September 2013 at RM1.6 trillion, up 14%
• Velocity at 32%, up 7%
• Average daily contracts traded for derivatives market at 44,160 contracts, up 16%    

* PATAMI is profit after tax and minority interest. 

Japan Exchange Group, Inc. And Consolidated Subsidiaries: Explanatory Material - Overview Of Earnings For 2Q FY2013

Date 23/10/2013

Highlights and FY2013 Forecast

• „Despite cash equity trading value and derivatives trading volume decreasing in Q2 from Q1, Q2 saw almost all products surpass the previous year’s figures, with continuing growth in revenues and profits.
• „Impairment losses accompanying the system base integration were recorded as special losses