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AXA Investment Managers Expands ESG Capabilities - Boosting ESG Research Coverage Across Fixed Income Securities - Extending Voting And Engagement Activity Across Regions

Date 06/06/2012

AXA IM today announced that it has implemented a number of measures to improve the capabilities of its Responsible Investment (RI) strategy. The developments allow AXA IM’s proprietary research platform, RI Search^©, to disseminate increased fundamental and quantitative analysis on more than 2,500 securities directly to portfolio managers, which now includes the fixed income asset class in addition to equity. The developments have also enabled AXA IM to expand its proxy voting coverage into emerging markets, building on its voting activity at over 2,400 annual general meetings globally in 2011, as shown in its 2011 RI Annual Report.
HKFE Announces Margin Rates For Adjusted Hong Kong And China Gas Futures Contracts

Date 06/06/2012

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced that with effect from the commencement of trading on Thursday, 7 June 2012, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contracts will be as outlined in the table below. The margins are based on the clearing company’s normal procedures and standard margining methodology.
Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Subcommittee Report On Lehman Brothers Minibonds And Structured Financial Products

Date 06/06/2012

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has noted the report published by the Legislative Council Subcommittee to study issues arising from Lehman Brothers-related Minibonds and structured financial products and a separate report tabled by individual Subcommittee members.
Platts: European Power Prices Fell 12% In May As Natural Gas Prices Slipped 2.7%

Date 06/06/2012

Prices of European power and natural gas declined in May, according to monthly statistics just released by Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemicals and metals information provider.
Thai Listed Firms’ Financial Status Show Strong Recovery In Q1 - Q1 Net Profits Jump Q-O-Q On Growing Revenues - Return On Equity (ROE) At 5.16 Pct, Up From 1.82 Pct In Q4’11 - Debt To Equity Ratios (D/E) Move Higher In 2011 At 1.38 Times

Date 06/06/2012

The financial status of Thai listed companies recovered in January-March after being hit by the devastating flood crisis last year, with a 193.26 percent surge of net profits from the previous quarter due to increasing sales and services revenues, according to The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) research data.

BOCOM And China Everbright Approved As Broking Members - Two Influential Chinese Firms To Deepen HKMEx’s Mainland Coverage

Date 06/06/2012

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx), China’s global marketplace, further extends its reach into mainland China by adding BOCOM International Securities Limited and China Everbright Forex & Futures (HK) Limited as its newest broking members. The two additions bring HKMEx members to a total of 29, including the five new members joining since the beginning of the year.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Select Corvil To Manage Latency On The Arrowhead And Tdex+ Trading Systems

Date 06/06/2012

Corvil, a provider of latency management systems for global financial markets, today announced that Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) has selected CorvilNet, Corvil’s latency management system, to monitor its trading systems arrowhead and Tdex+ and its network arrownet. CorvilNet has been selected by the TSE as their platform of choice to manage performance at the network, message and application layer, for both market data and transaction processing systems.
Ljubljana Stock Exchange: Monthly Statistical Report May 2012

Date 06/06/2012

Click here to download Ljubljana Stock Exchange's monthly statistical report for May 2012.
Deep Blue Capital Leverages QuantFEED And QuantLINK To Improve Business Performance - Illustrates Evolution From Legacy To Next Generation Solutions - S&P Capital IQ Quant Products Boost Profits Of Systematic Trading Firms

Date 06/06/2012

QuantHouse, a business of S&P Capital IQ providing real-time market data and end-to-end systematic trading, announced that Deep Blue Capital, a Netherlands-based high-tech fully automated trading firm, has implemented the company’s QuantFEED and QuantLINK products to improve its business performance.
New Billing Model Reduces Fees For JSE Currency Derivatives Market

Date 06/06/2012

In a bid to increase liquidity and boost trading volumes in the fast-growing currency derivatives market, the JSE has once again revised pricing on its suite of currency products. This new billing model includes a revision of the current sliding scale of fees as well as volume rebates for market makers. It was implemented on 1 June 2012.