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CBOE Holdings Reports October 2011 Trading Volume - CBOE Holdings October Average Daily Volume Of 5.0 Million Options Contracts Increases 16% From Year Ago

Date 01/11/2011

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today reported that October trading volume for options on theChicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), the company's all-electronic market, combined, totaled 105.2 million contracts.  Average daily volume (ADV) was 5.0 million contracts, an increase of 16 percent from October 2010 ADV of 4.3 million contracts per day. 

Greece Cabinet Of Ministers - Prime Minister’s speech

Date 01/11/2011

Dear Friends, dear Colleagues, after much discussion within the Movement and more broadly within the framework of a social dialogue, I took an initiative to take us forward.  This initiative is the calling of a referendum.

BM&FBOVESPA: Start Of Trading For Two New ETFs On BM&FBOVESPA: IT Now ISE And IT Now IGCT

Date 01/11/2011

Trading starts on BM&FBOVESPA on Monday (October 31) for two new Exchange Traded Funds, (ETFs): the IT Now ISE Index Fund and the IT Now IGCT Index Fund, which respectively track the BM&FBOVESPA Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) and BM&FBOVESPA Corporate Governance Trade Index (IGCT).

DTCC Applies To Register Swap Data Repository For Multiple Asset Classes With CFTC - Application To Operate Commodities SDR Also Made Through Alliance With EFETnet

Date 01/11/2011

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced that it had filed a registration application with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate a swaps data repository (SDR), DTCC Data Repository (U.S.) LLC, across multiple OTC derivatives asset classes.

BOX Price Improvement Activity Increases In October

Date 01/11/2011

In the month of October, price improved contracts on BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) averaged 336,691 per day, which represented a 51% increase over the same period last year.  Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via BOX’s price improvement auction (“PIP”) averaged $190,247 per day, while total savings to investors this month were $4 MM.  With this, BOX has saved investors over $363MM since its inception in 2004.  Overall average daily trading volume on BOX in the month of October was 662,311 contracts, which represented a 68% increase over the same period last year. 

First Derivatives Delivers Real-Time Market Reporting System To SGX

Date 01/11/2011

First Derivatives (AIM:FDP.L, ESM:GYQ.I), a leading provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry, today announced that the Company had delivered to SGX a bespoke solution for real‐time trading system reporting – Project MARS.

CBOE Holdings Names Edward T. Tilly To Succeed Edward J. Joyce As President And COO

Date 01/11/2011

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced today that CBOE Executive Vice Chairman Edward T. Tilly will succeed Edward J. Joyce as President and COO of CBOE Holdings, Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange(C2), effective immediately.   Mr. Joyce is stepping down for medical reasons after serving as President and COO since June 2000.

U.S. Treasury Receives Nearly $1 Billion Tarp Repayment From American International Group (AIG)

Date 01/11/2011

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it had received an additional repayment from American International Group (AIG) of $972 million. The payment was funded primarily through the scheduled release of escrowed proceeds from AIG’s sale of its American Life Insurance Co., or ALICO, subsidiary to MetLife, Inc. on November 1, 2010. The proceeds were used to pay back the U.S. taxpayers’ investment in AIG through the redemption of an equal portion of Treasury’s preferred equity interests in AIA Aurora LLC, a subsidiary of AIG. 

OneChicago Announces Trading Volumes For October 2011 - October 2011 Marks The One Year Anniversary Of The OCX.NoDivRisk Product Suite

Date 01/11/2011

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 170,470 security futures contracts were traded in the month of October 2011.

BM&FBOVESPA: Public Holiday In Brazil

Date 01/11/2011

There will be no trading in the variable income, private fixed income and derivatives segments on Wednesday, 2nd November.