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SEC Charges UBS Global Asset Management For Pricing Violations In Mutual Fund Portfolios

Date 17/01/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an investment advisory arm of UBS with failing to properly price securities in three mutual funds that it managed, resulting in a misstatement to investors of the net asset values (NAVs) of those funds. The misconduct was revealed during the course of an SEC examination, minimizing investor harm.

Direct Edge Updates FIX Short Sale Order Marking Requirements Effective February 15, 2012

Date 17/01/2012

Overview 

As part of our effort to promote unified compliance standards across the industry, Direct Edge will update the order entry requirements for sending short sale orders via FIX on both EDGA Exchange and EDGX Exchange. Effective February 15, 2012, Direct Edge will require Members to populate FIX tag 114. This change will ensure short sale orders are clearly defined before entering the Direct Edge Exchanges. Please be advised that FIX tag 114 should be used both for short sale and short sale exempt orders. 

Bloomberg Vault Adds Cloud Archiving For IBM Message Software

Date 17/01/2012

Bloomberg announced today that financial services firms using IBM's messaging and collaboration software can reduce costs and streamline e-mail archiving and compliance by using Bloomberg Vault.

Chi-X Canada Welcomes Pico Quantitative Trading To Its Financial Ecosystem

Date 17/01/2012

Chi-X® Canada ATS Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of alternative trading venue operator Chi-X® Global Holdings LLC, today announced that Pico Technologies, a division of Pico Quantitative Trading LLC, will offer its low latency infrastructure from Chi-X Canada’s Primary Data Center at 151 Front Street.

Derivatives Market: 2011 - Warsaw Stock Exchange In Europe

Date 17/01/2012

According to 2011 statistics:

• WSE remained #4 in Europe by the volume of trading in index futures;
• WIG20 futures ranked #6 by trading volume among all index futures in Europe;
• WIG20 options ranked #14 by trading volume among all index options in Europe.

MICEX-RTS Indices Weekly Review

Date 17/01/2012

eekly review: January 3 - 6, 2012 (pdf, 317 Кб)

Panopticon Adds Connectors For Thomson Reuters Velocity Analytics, Sybase Event Stream Processor, Oracle CEP and OneMarketData’s OneTick Systems To Its Visual Data Analysis Products

Date 17/01/2012

Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP andhistorical time series data, today announced that it has released Version 5.9.2 of its popular interactive visual data analysis systems. The suite of products includes: Panopticon Developer SDK for Java and .NET; Panopticon EX enterprise application; and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit (RDK) which combines the fast deployment capabilities of the EX product with the code-level embedding capabilities of the Developer SDK. 

Monetary Authority Of Singapore Introduces Regulatory Framework For Credit Rating Agencies (CRA)

Date 17/01/2012

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will implement the regulatory framework for Credit Rating Agencies (CRA) with effect from today.

WSE Introduces More Futures, Including Contracts On WSE Shares

Date 17/01/2012

• On 23 January 2012, two more futures will be introduced to trading: contracts on shares of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and on shares of PBG SA.

Tehran Stock Exchange Revised TEDFIX 30 Index

Date 17/01/2012

Tehran Stock Exchange announced the following index changes as a result of the quarterly TEDFIX 30 Index revision. These changes have been effective since the market's opening on December 24, 2011.