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Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Waives Licensing Fees For Two Years

Date 26/03/2012

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has today announced that the payment of annual licensing fees will be waived for a two-year period, effective from 1 April 2012. This initiative will benefit about 40,000 intermediaries.

Shanghai Stock Exchange And China Securities Index Co., Ltd: SSE 100 Index And SSE 150 Index To Be Launched

Date 26/03/2012

To further enhance the SSE index family as well as to provide new analysis tools and underlying instruments for investors, Shanghai Stock Exchange and China Securities Index Co., Ltd announced that the SSE 100 Index and SSE 150 Index would be launched on Apr 20, 2012.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange And Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd.: Investment Clock Indexes Released, Facilitating Capture Of Industry Rotation

Date 26/03/2012

Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. recently announced that SZSE Investment Clock Index (Code: 399644, Abbreviation: SZSE Clock) and CNINFO Investment Clock Index (Code: 399391, Abbreviation: Investment Clock), each published on March, 26, both take December 29, 2006 as the base date and 1000 points as the basis point. The sampling scope for CNINFO Investment Clock Index falls within all A-share listed companies and SZSE Investment Clock Index within all A-share SZSE-listed companies.

A Note From The BATS CEO To Its Customers

Date 25/03/2012

Dear BATS Customers and Members of the Trading Community,

It is with great humility that I write to you for the first time in quite some while. As you are probably aware, we have been working towards a planned IPO for many months, and as a result of the quiet period restrictions I did not reach out as often as I would have liked recently.

Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange Weekly Market Commentary - March 25, 2012

Date 25/03/2012

Welcome to the Weekly Market Commentary from DGCX, providing you with a snapshot of what's happening in the energy, precious metal and currency futures markets.

CBOE And S&P Indices Take Action To Enforce Injunction Against ISE Regarding S&P 500 Index Options

Date 24/03/2012

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and its S&P Indices business ("S&P") today announced that they have asked a court in Chicago to enforce the injunction against the International Securities Exchange, LLC (ISE) to prohibit it from listing and trading options on what ISE has called the ISE Max SPY™ index. S&P is the developer and publisher of the S&P 500® index and exclusively licenses CBOE and C2 Options Exchange (C2) to list and trade options based on the S&P 500.  

BATS BZX Exchange Post-Mortem

Date 23/03/2012

At 10:45:26AM ET, a single matching engine handling symbol range A-BFZZZ encountered a software bug related to IPO auctions which rendered open customer orders in this symbol range inaccessible.  BATS sent notice at 10:48:41AM ET that BATS was investigating system issues in trading of symbols in the range of A through BFZZZ.  Additionally, the IPO auction for symbol BATS did not successfully print and trading of symbol BATS on the BZX Exchange system did not begin as expected.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 23/03/2012

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:

Brookfield Office Properties Inc. (TSX:BPO) has announced that it will redeem for $CDN25.00 cash per share all of the outstanding shares of its Class AAA Preference Shares, Series "I" (TSX:BPO.PR.I) at the close on March 30, 2012. The shares of this issue will be removed from the S&P/TSX Preferred Share Index and the S&P/TSX North American Preferred Stock Index after the close of trading on Friday, March 30, 2012.

“It Takes A Pillage—Financial Fiascos, Frauds And Fixes”: Speech By CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton To The Hot Springs Village Democratic Club, Hot Springs Village, AR

Date 23/03/2012

Introduction

Thank you. It’s good to be with you today. I really appreciate the invitation from your President, Joe Stuart. I also appreciate your activism and work for your community, state and country.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At The Federal Reserve Conference On Central Banking: Before, During, And After The Crisis, Washington, D.C.

Date 23/03/2012

Opening Remarks

Distinguished guests, colleagues, and friends: It is my privilege to welcome you to this conference on "Central Banking: Before, During, and After the Crisis," which is jointly sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board and the International Journal of Central Banking. We hope that the conference will foster discussion among policymakers and researchers about the evolving challenges facing central banks around the world. To help get that discussion started, the conference will feature original research on monetary policy, macroprudential regulation, and the provision of liquidity, topics that are obviously highly relevant to the public policy missions of the Federal Reserve and other central banks. The proceedings from this conference will be published in a special issue of the journal and disseminated to researchers in central banks and academic institutions worldwide.