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Financial Services Industry Rallies Around OpenMAMA Project As It Delivers First Release - The Linux Foundation-Hosted OpenMAMA Project Fosters Increasing Collaboration On Open Source Technologies For Financial Services; New Steering Committee Participants Include IBM, Tick42 And TS-Associates

Date 30/04/2012

OpenMAMA, a Linux Foundation Labs (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/labs) project, today announced the availability of OpenMAMA 2.1, the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API and the first neutral standard in data messaging for financial services.

2012 NASDAQ OMX Analyst/Investor Day

Date 30/04/2012

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. ("NASDAQ OMX®") (Nasdaq:NDAQ) will hold its 2012 Analyst/Investor Day on Thursday, May 10, 2012. NASDAQ's senior executive team will conduct an in-depth discussion of the company's operations, objectives, and strategy. Analysts and investors who wish to attend should RSVP to investor.relations@nasdaqomx.com

Trading In Irish Market Up 26% To Over €10bn

Date 30/04/2012

• Value of ISEQ quoted companies rises by over 20% to €105 billion
• All ISEQ indices grow by more than 10% in Q1
• Turnover in Irish Government securities doubles to €25bn

Athens Exchange: Market Operations Committee Decision

Date 30/04/2012

The Market Operations Committee of ATHEX, during today's session, approved the application of price fluctuation limits of ±10%, for May 2012, for the low turnover velocity Stocks of the ATHEX Main Market (monthly average velocity of last month less or equal to 0.01%) presented in Table 1, according to the ATHEX Board Decision 22. 

FSB Enhances Its Process For Ongoing Monitoring Of Compensation Practices

Date 30/04/2012

The 2011 FSB peer review on compensation indicated that good progress has been made in implementing the FSB Principles and Standards on Sound Compensation Practices (“Principles and Standards”), but that more work is necessary to overcome constraints to full implementation by individual national authorities and to address concerns by firms of an uneven playing field. Following the completion of the peer review, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was tasked by the G20 to undertake ongoing monitoring and public reporting on further progress in compensation practices.

ISE Premium Hosted Database™ Launches With Comprehensive Tick Data And Analytics - Hosted Solution Provides Straightforward Access To Over 200 Terabytes Of Data

Date 30/04/2012

The International Securities Exchange (ISE) announced today that it has launched the ISE Premium Hosted Database™ (ISE PhD™). ISE PhD™ is a fully managed historical tick database that offers full OPRA data including all quotes and trades from all exchanges, U.S. equities level one data, pre-computed implied volatilities and Greeks, full corporate action histories, and ISE Open/Close trade data.    

Direct Edge Trading Notice #12-18: Update: Message Efficiency Incentive Program Postponed Until June 1, 2012

Date 30/04/2012

As announced, Direct Edge will introduce the Message Efficiency Incentive Program (MEIP).  Members of EDGA Exchange, Inc. and EDGX Exchange, Inc. will receive standard rebates only in instances where the Member’s average monthly inbound message-to-trade ratio is at or less than 100 to 1. Members with a monthly average of more than 100 to 1 will have their rebate reduced by $0.0001 per share, regardless of the tier for which they would otherwise qualify. (Note: Inbound messages are defined to include orders, cancels, and cancel/replace messages.) 

SIX: Successful Completion Of Eurex Sale

Date 30/04/2012

SIX has sold its share of the Eurex joint venture to Deutsche Börse AG with effect from 1 January 2012. The implementation project was concluded today with the successful execution of the sale. This marks the final transfer of Eurex to Deutsche Börse AG.

Deutsche Börse Completes Eurex Takeover - Acquisition Of SIX Swiss Exchange’s 50-Percent Share Closed

Date 30/04/2012

Deutsche Börse Group today completed its full acquisition of Eurex Zürich AG. Representatives of SIX Swiss Exchange/SIX Group AG and Deutsche Börse AG jointly finalized the transaction in Zurich and signed the corresponding closing documents. Deutsche Börse is to pay 295 million euros and transfer approx. 5.3 million Deutsche Börse AG shares to the SIX Group.

CME Group Expands Multi-Asset Class OTC Offering With First Cleared FX Non-Deliverable Forward

Date 30/04/2012

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today that on April 27 the company cleared its first customer FX Over-the-Counter Non Deliverable Forward (NDF) trade, further expanding the company's market leading OTC solution across multiple asset classes. The currency cleared was the Brazilian Real. The company also offers NDF clearing for the Chinese Renminbi Yuan, Philippine Peso, Malaysian Ringgit, Indian Rupee, Korean Won, Taiwan Dollar, Chilean Peso, Colombian Peso, Peruvian Sol, Russian Ruble and Indonesian  Rupiah.