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CFTC Charges North Carolinian Roy Scarboro, Jr. With Solicitation Fraud And Misappropriating Customer Funds In Forex Scheme - Scarboro Ordered To Pay $350,000 Civil Monetary Penalty And Banned From Registering In The Commodities Industry - Scarboro Pleads Guilty To Related Federal Charges And Is Serving 26-Month Prison Sentence.

Date 01/09/2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed and simultaneously settled charges that Roy Scarboro, Jr. of Archdale, N.C., fraudulently solicited approximately $713,000 from customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency (forex). The CFTC order also finds that Scarboro misappropriated funds for his personal use and issued false account statements to conceal that he lost most of the funds trading. Scarboro has never been registered with the CFTC.

CBOE Holdings Reports All-Time Record Trading Volume In August 2011: - CBOE Holdings Averages A Record 6.6 Million Options Contracts Per Day In August, Up 88% From August 2010 And Up 44% From July 2011 - CBOE, CBOE Futures Exchange, C2 Establish New Individual Monthly Volume Records - Index And ETF Option Sectors, SPX, SPY And VIX Options Mark All-Time Volume Records

Date 01/09/2011

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today reported that August trading volume for options on theChicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), the company's alternative all-electronic market, combined, established an all-time record of 151.2 million contracts; record average daily volume (ADV) was nearly 6.6 million contracts, up 88 percent from August 2010 and an increase of 44 percent from July 2011. CBOE, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and C2 each posted all-time record monthly volumes and ADV in August.

CFTC Chairman Gensler: CFTC Eager To Clean Up Swap Market - Politico Op-Ed

Date 01/09/2011

Before the 2008 financial crisis, our country’s largest financial institutions were trading complicated derivatives, called swaps, in the shadows, which helped propel the economy into a downward spiral.

Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Country And Dow Jones Emerging Markets Sector Titans Indexes - Changes Are The Result Of The Regular Quarterly Review

Date 01/09/2011

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the results of the regular quarterly review of the Dow Jones Country Titans Indexes  and Dow Jones Emerging Markets Sector Titans Indexes. All changes will be effective after the close of trading on Friday, September 16, 2011.

Kansas City Board Of Trade Trading Volume Second Largest For Month Of August - Year-To-date Volume Continues To Post Large Gains Over 2010

Date 01/09/2011

Kansas City Board of Trade trading volume for the month of August was the second largest ever for that calendar month for both the Hard Red Winter wheat futures contract and the exchange as a whole.

Program Trading Averaged 30.6 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Aug. 22-26

Date 01/09/2011

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Aug. 22-26.

International Securities Exchange Reports Business Activity For August 2011

Date 01/09/2011

• Dividend trades made up 1.2% of industry volume in August 2011.
• ISE is the third largest equity options exchange in August with market share of 18.9%, excluding dividend trades.

MGEX Reaches Two Million Trade Mark In Fiscal Year 2010-2011

Date 01/09/2011

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization, today announced a new fiscal year (FY) futures and options trading record of 2,013,025 contracts.  The new milestone shattered the previous record by more than 328,000 contracts.  Futures trading of the MGEX Hard Red Spring Wheat (HRSW) contract also set a new fiscal record of 1,968,967 contracts traded. Both new records unseated the previous records set in FY 2007-2008.  The MGEX fiscal year is defined as September 1 to August 31 of the following year.  

BATS Global Markets Reports Record - U.S. Equities Market Share Of 12.3% - U.S. Options Market Share Reaches 4.2% Vs. 0.4% A Year Ago - BATS Europe Earns Record 8.3% In FTSE 250 And 5.4% Overall

Date 01/09/2011

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a global operator of stock and options markets, today reported its best month ever with U.S. Equities matched market share of 12.3%, up from 10.6% one year ago. BATS Options and BATS Europe also recorded solid performances in August, reporting 4.2% and 5.4% matched market share, respectively.

TASE's Newest Member – Barclays Bank PLC

Date 01/09/2011

The Board of Directors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has approved the application of Barclays Bank PLC ("Barclays") for TASE membership.