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SEC Charges Former CalPERS CEO And Friend With Falsifying Letters In $20 Million Placement Agent Fee Scheme

Date 23/04/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former CEO of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and his close personal friend with scheming to defraud an investment firm into paying $20 million in fees to the friend's placement agent firms.
CBOE Holdings Announces Date For 2012 Annual Meeting

Date 23/04/2012

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced that its 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders is scheduled to be held at 9:30 a.m. Central Time, on Thursday, June 14, 2012, in the fourth floor lounge of the Chicago Board Options Exchange(CBOE), 400 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
SEC Charges Chinese Company And Executives With Lying About Asset Values And Use Of IPO Proceeds - Company’s Chairman Accused Of $40 Million Theft

Date 23/04/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a China-based oil field services company and two senior officers involved in a scheme to intentionally mislead investors about the value of its assets and its use of $120 million in IPO proceeds. The SEC additionally charged the company’s chairman of the board involved in a separate $40 million theft from the company.
SIX Swiss Exchange Successfully Upgrades To INET-Based Trading Platform From NASDAQ OMX - SWXess Trading Platform Migrates To X-stream INET Technology For Low-Latency And High-Throughput Advantages

Date 23/04/2012

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announces that the SIX Swiss Exchange today successfully completed its upgrade to a new trading platform based on NASDAQ OMX's world-leading INET technology. SIX Swiss Exchange's upgrade of its existing SWXess trading platform utilizes NASDAQ OMX's X-stream INET technology to enable significant latency and throughput advantages in all asset classes for its trading members.
Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority - Finansinspektionen - Revokes The Authorisation For Skandinavisk Fondkommission AB

Date 23/04/2012

Skandinavisk Fondkommission has had several material deficiencies in its business operations. Such deficiencies relate to the provision of investment advice and portfolio management services and poor internal governance and control. Finansinspektionen has therefore decided to revoke the licence.

SIX Swiss Exchange Upgrades Equity Trading Platform And Successfully Rolls Out Co-Location Service To Participants

Date 23/04/2012

SIX Swiss Exchange has successfully completed the upgrade of its trading platform. The upgrade was developed in collaboration with NASDAQ OMX. At the same time, SIX Swiss Exchange is launching a co-location service for the new platform in association with Equinix. Starting today, SIX Swiss Exchange offers participants the most modern trading technology in the world.
Global Investment In Sell-side Market-Data Distribution Technology Climbs To USD3.6B In 2012, Says TABB - Sees Three-Year 4.5% CAGR Based On Growth in FX, Derivatives And Commodities And The Asian Markets’ Move Toward Automation

Date 23/04/2012

According to new research from TABB Group, a battle is brewing within today’s institutional investment market data marketplace. The “need for speed” is in direct conflict with the “need to save” as cost versus performance becomes an issue for many of today’s largest market data users.
Transcript Of The Press Briefing On The Global Financial Stability Report: April 18, 2012 - Washington, DC

Date 23/04/2012

José Viñals, Financial Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Robert Sheehy, Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Jan Brockmeijer, Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Peter Dattels, Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department
William Murray, Division Chief, External Relations Department, IMF
BM&FBOVESPA: “Report Or Explain” Is The Theme Of The First Em Boa Companhia (In Good Company) Meeting Of 2012

Date 23/04/2012

BM&FBOVESPA held last Friday the first Em Boa Companhia Programa de Sustentabilidade com Empresas (in Good Company Sustainability Program with Companies) meeting of 2012 . The main point under discussion was “Report or Explain” - a BM&FBOVESPA recommendation that as of this year publicly-traded companies indicate in the Reference Form (item 7.8 “Description of the company’s relevant long-term relationships not elsewhere described”) whether they publish a regular sustainability report and where it is available, or explain why not.
DTCC Board Of Directors Elects Michael C. Bodson President And CEO

Date 23/04/2012

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Michael C. Bodson, currently Chief Operating Officer, as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective July 1. Bodson succeeds Donald F. Donahue who will retire at the end of July.