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First Triparty Repo Auction Platform To Join Euroclear’s Collateral Highway

Date 12/03/2013

Euroclear announces today that a Memorandum of Understanding has just been signed with Newedge UK Financial Limited  (‘Newedge’) and EuroMTS Ltd. (‘MTS’) to promote Euroclear’s global Collateral Highway as a means to manage collateral for triparty repo transactions conducted on the Newedge/MTS Agency Cash Management (ACM) platform in Europe.

Moscow Exchange: Start Of Additional Trading Session On March 14-15, 2013

Date 12/03/2013

Please be informed that in accordance with Clause 6.2 of the Derivatives rules of the Derivatives market FORTS the additional evening trading session on the market will start ten minutes later on March 14-15, 2013, i.e. at 19:10 MSK, as these are the last days to settle options.

DGCX’s New Trading Platform Goes Live

Date 12/03/2013

• Advanced  trading and clearing platform will enable DGCX to expand product offerings and attract new traders
• The new platform facilitates greater efficiency and liquidity in the DGCX  marketplace by offering ultra-fast matching and real-time clearing
• Provides a new risk management benchmark worldwide by integrated trading and clearing in real-time

Thai Bourse Launches Campaign To Attract First-Time Investors

Date 12/03/2013

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) joins hands with 28 leading brokers to launch a campaign, “Your 1^st stock: Beginning with equities and investing with quality” in order to give insights, intensive training, an exclusive workshop, and other benefits for new investors throughout this year, aiming to boost the number of new investors by 70,000 investors in 2013.

Contango Markets Adds Derivatives Operations And IT Unit

Date 12/03/2013

Specialist derivatives consultancy, Contango Markets, is launching a new unit, 'Contango Operations', to help tackle many of the pre- and post-trade issues affecting market participants as the implementation phase resulting from years of discussion over regulatory change is set to hit the financial markets.

Changes To The UBS Board Of Directors - Reto Francioni To Be Nominated For Election To The UBS Board Of Directors At The Forthcoming Annual General Meeting. Wolfgang Mayrhuber Will Not Stand For Re-Election

Date 12/03/2013

The UBS Board of Directors announced today that it will nominate Reto Francioni for election to the Board at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 2 May 2013. Wolfgang Mayrhuber has announced his decision not to stand for re-election to the Board of Directors at the firm's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

Moscow Exchange: Settlement Of Futures And Options In March 2013

Date 12/03/2013

On March 14, 2013 futures and options contracts will be settled through the unified settlement technology implemented on the Derivatives market FORTS and market sector Standard.

Taiwan Stock Exchange To Showcase Industry Champions At The Biggest Investment Conference For The Year

Date 12/03/2013

Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), together with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will once again host the “Taiwan, Technology and Beyond" Conference from 12-14 March 2013. Taiwan’s capital market is increasingly valued by international investment corporations. Representatives from Europe, United States, Singapore and Hong Kong institutions with assets under management (AUM) of more than US$39 trillion are expected to participate.

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: Home Detention For National Finance Director

Date 12/03/2013

National Finance director Anthony Banbrook has today been sentenced to eight and a half months' home detention and ordered to pay $75,000 in reparations in a prosecution taken by the Financial Markets Authority.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission Bans Calvin Ho Kei Him For 14 Months

Date 12/03/2013

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Calvin Ho Kei Him, a former research associate at Morgan Stanley Asia Limited, from re-entering the industry for 14 months from 12 March 2013 to 11 May 2014.