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  • Thai Futures Exchange’s Stock Futures Hit Record High After Position Limit Adjustment

    Date 15/01/2013

    The Thailand Futures Exchange PCL (TFEX), under The Stock Exchange of Thailand group, revealed that trading volume of stock futures hit an all-time high after expanding its stock futures’ position limit to be proportional to the listed shares of the underlying stocks on January 14.

  • IPC Is First To Deploy Tradview, The Revolutionary Breakthrough In The Real Time Monitoring Of Market Data Feeds From Datacom Systems - IPC Will Also Deploy Network Taps And Aggregation Switches From Datacom Systems

    Date 15/01/2013

    Datacom Systems today announced that IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms and global enterprises, will be the first customer to deploy the new TradeView appliance, the revolutionary breakthrough in the realtime monitoring of market data feeds – delivering 5x the speed at half the cost of traditional monitoring tools. 

  • Mergermarket UK M&A Roundup 2012

    Date 15/01/2013

    Summary Overview

    • UK M&A activity totalled £80.6bn in 2012, up 5.1% compared to 2011 (£76.7bn) and accounted for 18.6% of total European M&A activity of£433.3bn.
    • Q4 2012 amounted to £20bn, up 36.1% from the same period last year(£14.7bn) and up 23.5% compared to Q3 2012 (£16.2bn).
    • The top sector continued to be Energy, Mining & Utilities (£20.6bn) with a 25.6% market share of total UK deal value. The sector’s largest deal with UK target was the £6.8bn acquisition of 30.2% stake in GDF Suez Energy International by GDF Suez in April.
    • Foreign investments into the country accounted for 70.8% of all UK M&A in 2012. Totalling £57.1bn, this represented a 0.9% increase from 2011 (£56.6bn) and the highest annual value since 2008 (£74.8bn)    
    • UK cross-border outbound activity in 2012 amounted to £43.1bn, down 32.9% from the last year’s £64.2bn, recording its lowest value since2009 (£19.5bn). However, Q4 2012 (£14.3bn) was up for a third consecutive quarter in 2012, increasing by 7.5% from £13.3bn in Q32012 and up 120% from £6.5bn in Q1 2012.
    • Having advised on £69.4bn-worth of deals including the top four UK deals, Barclays jumped five positions to take the lead in the financial advisor league table by deal value.
    • Linklaters topped the legal advisor table by deal value after advising on95 deals worth £66.1bn – this deal value includes the 50% acquisition ofTNK-BP made by Rosneft Oil Company for £19.5bn.

  • China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Visits HKEx And CESC

    Date 15/01/2013

    China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Guo Shuqing visited Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) and China Exchanges Services Company Limited (CESC), HKEx's joint venture with Shanghai and Shenzhen's stock exchanges, today (Tuesday).

  • Meridiam Infrastructure, Campbell Lutyens And EDHEC-Risk Institute Launch A Research Chair On Equity Investment In Infrastructure

    Date 15/01/2013

    With this new Chair, EDHEC-Risk Institute will conduct research supported by Meridiam Infrastructure and Campbell Lutyens on “Infrastructure Equity Investment Management and Benchmarking.” The Chair will involve a research team made up of three senior researchers (professors and engineers) from EDHEC-Risk's campus in Singapore for the next three years.