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FixSpec Launches Innovative Multi-Venue Certification Utility

Date 27/02/2013

FixSpec Ltd announce the immediate availability of the world's first, multi-venue certification utility for the trading community. The utility gives developers the ability to make an internet connection to an interactive FIX service designed to replicate the message formats of a FIX counterparty such as an exchange or broker. Available all day, every day, developers can connect to the service on their own convenience, manually perform actions such as execute orders and cancel trades, and test their code against a certification script; all without needing to book a formal testing slot with the counterparty, saving a lot of wasted time for both parties.

STOXX Changes Composition Of Benchmark Indices - Results Of The First Regular Quarterly Review To Be Effective On March 18, 2013

Date 26/02/2013

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the new composition of the STOXX Benchmark and their sub- and sector indices, among them the STOXX Europe 600 Index, STOXX North America 600 Index and STOXX Asia/Pacific 600 Index.

Italy To Ban Short-Selling? Sungard Comment

Date 26/02/2013

Commenting on reports that the Italian stock market regulator could impose a ban on short-selling to calm market volatility, David Lewis, EMEA Head of SunGard Astec Analytics said:

“Short selling does not increase volatility in markets and banning it can actually increase it.

SEC Charges Connecticut-Based Hedge Fund Managers With Fraud

Date 26/02/2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of hedge fund managers and their Connecticut-based advisory firm New Stream Capital with lying to investors about their fund’s structure and financial condition before it failed during the financial crisis.

CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler’s Opening Remarks At Roundtable On Financial Market Benchmarks

Date 26/02/2013

Good afternoon, I want to welcome all of you to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for today’s roundtable. This is the 23rd roundtable that we’ve had at the CFTC in the last couple years. This one is a little different. Most of our roundtables have been focused on Dodd-Frank swaps market reform. Today’s roundtable is about the integrity of financial market benchmarks.

SEC To Host Credit Ratings Roundtable

Date 26/02/2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it will hold a Credit Ratings Roundtable on May 14 in response to a recent staff report on credit ratings and related matters.

Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton Before The International Roundtable On Financial Benchmarks, Washington, DC

Date 26/02/2013

I’m pleased we are discussing the critically important topic of benchmarks. We’ve witnessed blatant and brazen monkeying with the marks. The LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate), for instance, impacts virtually anything consumers purchase on credit from a car to a home mortgage to a student loan. When marks are manipulated, it affects us all.

CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler To Testify Before The U.S. Senate Committee On Agriculture, Nutrition And Forestry

Date 26/02/2013

The Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Wishes To Reiterate To Issuers Their Obligation To Provide Information When Issuing Equity Securities Or Securities Giving Access To Capital Of The Issuer Without A Prospectus

Date 26/02/2013

In position 2013-03, the AMF specifies the information to be given to the market when issuing equity securities or giving access to capital when a prospectus is not published.

Global Reporting Initiative Launches Focal Point For A More Sustainable Africa

Date 26/02/2013

The Global Reporting Initiative will officially launch its Focal Point South Africa at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange next week, with a mission to make sustainability reporting standard practice for companies and organizations in South Africa and the wider region.