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Thai Bourse Announces Overwhelming Success Of Thailand Focus 2012

Date 30/08/2012

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), together with Phatra Securities pcl and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, announce the overwhelming success of “Thailand Focus 2012 - Positioning Thailand for the Next Growth Phase,” during August 29-31, reinforcing the attractiveness of the Thai capital market and economy to investors from around the globe and boosting the visibility of Thai listed companies to foreign fund managers.
FTSE Moves To Actual Free Float In Float-Weighted Indices

Date 30/08/2012

From March 2013 onwards, all FTSE’s float-weighted indices will use actual free float percentages to calculate their weightings. This will reflect the actual stock available in the market more accurately and reduce turnover caused when a security moves from one free float band to another as the result of corporate actions or other structural change.
TheCityUK: London Continues To Increase Dominance In Global Foreign Exchange Trading

Date 30/08/2012

The UK accounted for 38% of global foreign exchange trading in April 2012 according to the TheCityUK’s Foreign Exchange 2012 report. Its share of global turnover was up 1% compared to six months earlier, and well ahead of the next largest centres of the US (18%), Singapore (5%) and Japan (5%).
EDHEC-Risk Institute Research Highlights The Risk Of New Forms Of Equity Indices Underperforming Cap-Weighted Indices

Date 30/08/2012

In a new research paper published in the prestigious Journal of Portfolio Management, entitled “Diversifying the Diversifiers and Tracking the Tracking Error: Outperforming Cap-Weighted Indices with Limited Risk of Underperformance,” EDHEC-Risk Institute warns of the risk of new forms of alternative-weighted equity indices seriously underperforming traditional cap-weighted indices.
Indochina’s Stock Exchanges First Join Hands To Show Strength In Thailand Focus 2012

Date 30/08/2012

Thailand Focus 2012 has successfully gathered capital markets in Indochina to present insights for foreign investors for the first time, with CEOs of stock exchanges in Cambodia, Hanoi, Hochiminh, Laos and Thailand participating and meeting nine foreign funds interested in discussions with the exchanges and Indochina companies in one-on-one meetings.

Xetra/FWB: Travel24 Plans Bond Issue In Entry Standard - Subscription Period Until 14 September 2012

Date 30/08/2012

The travel company Travel24.com AG is issuing a corporate bond in Deutsche Börse’s Entry Standard. The bond can be subscribed from today (ISIN: DE000A1PGRG2).
Barclays PLC And Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”) Announce That Antony Jenkins Has Been Appointed As A Director And As Group Chief Executive Of Barclays With Immediate Effect

Date 30/08/2012

Mr Jenkins currently leads Barclays Retail and Business Banking (RBB) business. He has been a member of the Group Executive Committee of Barclays since 2009. His role as CEO for RBB includes responsibility for retail banking in Barclays Africa and Absa and he also represents Barclays as a non executive Director on the Board of Absa Group Limited and Absa Bank Limited.
New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Welcomes Belgrave Finance Sentencing

Date 30/08/2012

The Financial Markets Authority has today welcomed the sentencing of former Belgrave Finance director Shane Buckley.
SIX Swiss Exchange: No Breach Of Listing Rules By Dufry Ltd.

Date 30/08/2012

The Sanction Commission of SIX Swiss Exchange has decided that Dufry Ltd. did not breach its obligations to disclose management transactions. The warnings issued by the company to two individuals required to report transactions complied with the applicable rules.
Dalian Commodity Exchange And Heilongjiang Provincial Agriculture Commission Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement Of Services For Agriculture, Farmer And Rural Area

Date 30/08/2012

On August 27, during the “Heilongjiang Autumn Agricultural Producers and Buyers Match-Making Meeting and Market Prospect Activity 2012”, Dalian Commodity Exchange and Heilongjiang Provicial Agriculture Commission signed the Strategic Development and Cooperation Agreement of Services for Agriculture, Farmer and Rural Area at the Harbin Shangri-La Hotel. Liu Zhiqiang, Assistant to the President and CEO of Dalian Commodity Exchange, and Li Lianrui, Deputy Director of Heilongjiang Provicial Agriculture Commission signed the agreement on behalf of the both sides. Zhang Yuxiang, Member the CPC Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sun Yao, Vice Governor of Heilongjiang Province attended the signing ceremony. Leaders of local governments in Heilongjiang Province, responsible people of the Agriculture Commission, related experts and scholars, as well as some representatives from the enterprises involved in the actuals attending the “Heilongjiang Autumn Agricultural Producers and Buyers Match-Making Meeting and Market Prospect Activity 2012” were also present at the signing ceremony.