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Shanghai Stock Exchange Specifies Narrative Information Disclosure In Annual Reports

Date 07/02/2012

In order to enhance the validity and usefulness of information in annual reports of listed companies, the Company Management Department of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has recently issued the "No. 5 Memorandum on Annual Reports of 2011 for Listed Companies – Requirements for Compiling the Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A)" (the Memorandum) which stresses the importance of narrative information disclosure in annual reports of listed companies and further standardizes the disclosed information in the MD&A. An SSE principal told that the MD&A would be of the highest importance in the after-action check on annual reports this year.

TMX Group Equity Financing Statistics – January 2012 - Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange

Date 06/02/2012

TMX Group today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for January 2012.

February 2012 InBOX

Date 06/02/2012

This is the February issue of InBOX, your news source from inside the BOX Options Exchange. This monthly publication will provide convenient summaries of recent developments at BOX.

Panopticon Provides Enhanced Front End For CEP In Financial Services - Panopticon Delivers A High-Performance Connector For The Oracle CEP, Providing Financial Services Customers With World Class Visualizations And Analysis Of CEP Data

Date 06/02/2012

Panopticon Software the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time,CEP and historical time series data, today announced that its new 5.9 release includes a new data connector for Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP). This allows Oracle customers to utilize Panopticon's interactive dashboards as the user interface for their CEP-enabled analytical solutions. The announcement comes on the heels of an integrated demonstration that was showcased at Oracle OpenWorld in October. At the event, Oracle and Deloitte gave conference attendees a preview of the combined system's real-time risk management analytics capabilities.

BM&FBOVESPA: Individual Investors’ Participation In Total Volume Of ETFs Traded On The Exchange In January Surpasses 14% - Financial Institutions Lead Participation In Volume

Date 06/02/2012

Individuals had a 14.4% participation of the total volume of ETFs traded on the Exchange in January. Financial institutions led with a 32.3% participation of the month’s volume, followed by institutional investors (30.5%), foreign investors (19.5%), and public and private companies (3.3%).

SwapClear Announces U.S. $34 Billion Cleared In Client Business In January 2012 - $28 Trillion In Total Notional Also Cleared In January - Clients Cleared In Seven Of The 17 Available Currencies

Date 06/02/2012

LCH.Clearnet Limited’s (LCH.Clearnet’s) market-leading interest rate swap (IRS) clearing service, SwapClear, today announced that in January it cleared U.S. $34 billion in total notional client business across seven of the 17 currencies currently available. These volumes bring the total client notional outstanding to $288 billion. During this period, SwapClear also cleared $28 trillion of total notional business.

NYSE Liffe U.S. Names Harvey Flax Business Manager, GCF Repo Index Futures

Date 06/02/2012

NYSE Liffe U.S., the innovative U.S. futures exchange of NYSE Euronext (NYX)  today announced that Harvey Flax has been appointed to the newly created  position of  Business Manager, GCF Repo IndexTM futures. Mr. Flax will be  responsible for leading the launch and development of the DTCC GCF Repo IndexTM  futures products trading exclusively on NYSE Liffe U.S. and cleared on  NYPC. Based in New York, he will report to Lynn Martin, Chief Operating Officer,  NYSE Liffe U.S.

BATS Exchange Receives SEC Approval For Innovative Market Maker Program - Competitive Liquidity Provider Program Designed To Incentivize Active Market Making For BATS-Listed Issuers

Date 06/02/2012

BATS Global Markets, a global operator of stock and options markets, today announced it had received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to implement its new Competitive Liquidity Provider (CLP) program.

SEC Charges Smith & Nephew PLC With Foreign Bribery

Date 06/02/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged London-based medical device company Smith & Nephew PLC with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when its U.S. and German subsidiaries bribed public doctors in Greece for more than a decade to win business.

Vienna Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics - January 2012

Date 06/02/2012