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Statement Before The Subcommittee On Oversight And Investigations, House Committee On Financial Services - CFTC Commissioner Jill E. Sommers

Date 23/05/2011

Good afternoon Chairman Neugebauer, Ranking Member Capuano and members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for inviting me to today’s hearing on “The Costs of Implementing the Dodd-Frank Act: Budgetary and Economic.” I am Jill Sommers. I have worked in the derivatives industry for over fifteen years and have been a Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission since August of 2007. The views I present today are my own and not those of the Commission.
FINRA Fines Nuveen $3 Million For Use Of Misleading Marketing Materials Concerning Auction Rate Securities - Brochures Failed To Disclose Risks Arising From Events In Early 2008

Date 23/05/2011

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Nuveen Investments, LLC, of Chicago, $3 million for creating misleading marketing materials used in sales of auction rate preferred securities (ARPS).
Joint Associations Committee Releases Combined Principles For Retail Structured Products

Date 23/05/2011

The Joint Associations Committee on Retail Structured Products is pleased to announce it is reaffirming the set of principles for managing the provider-distributor relationship (PD Principles) in retail structured products and the principles for managing the distributor-individual investor relationship (DI Principles), originally published in July 2007 and July 2008 respectively.
Atrium Network Extends Its Low-Latency Network To Equinix’s Zurich Data Centre

Date 23/05/2011

Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity solutions for the financial community, today announced it has opened a new point of presence (POP) at Equinix’s ZH4 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in Zurich. Atrium Network’s POPs in Equinix facilities in Geneva and now Zurich, ensure customers benefit from low latency access to both Swiss and non-Swiss markets.
Batterymarch Financial Management Deploys FlexTRADER EMS

Date 23/05/2011

FlexTrade Systems, Inc., a global leader in broker-neutral execution and order management systems, today announced Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. has deployed FlexTRADER, the award-winning EMS world-renowned for its combined high performance and multi-asset trading capabilities.

Platts Data Selected As Basis For 27 New ICE Energy Contracts

Date 23/05/2011

Platts’ physical market price assessments for oil, refined petroleum products, and North American natural gas have been selected as the basis for 27 new cleared over-the-counter (OTC) energy contracts by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), a U.S.-based operator of derivatives and OTC markets. Platts is a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information and a top publisher of global benchmark price references.
Bloomberg Tech Survey Finds CIOs Shifting To Managed Solutions - First Enterprise Technology Summit Draws Top Industry Leaders

Date 23/05/2011

Leading financial technology executives say they want innovations that allow them to process more data more quickly, cheaply and reliably, according to results of a Bloomberg survey revealed today. The poll was taken at Bloomberg LINK's first Enterprise Technology Summit, an invitation-only seminar that brought together more than 100 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and technology decision-makers from major financial services firms.
Semi-Annual Changes To The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index

Date 23/05/2011

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and CRD Analytics announced today the results of the semi-annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index (Nasdaq:QCRD), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, May 23, 2011.
Thai Listed Firms’ Q1/2011 Total Profits Up Nearly 30% Reaching Q1 Record High

Date 23/05/2011

Companies listed on The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) continue to report record high sales and earnings, with total profits for Q1/2011 of THB205.29 billion (approx. USD6.62 billion) or a 29.74% rise from Q1/2010, when total profits were THB158.24 billion (approx. USD5.10 billion). During Q1/2011, total sales were THB2.12 trillion (approx. USD68.41 billion) or an 18.22% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase. The top-3 industry groups with the highest profits were Industrials, Resources and Financials; PTT, SCB, IVL, PTTEP and SCC were the top-5 companies with the highest net profit.
Instinet Adds Intraday US VWAP Cross

Date 23/05/2011

Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that its US brokerage subsidiary, Instinet, LLC, has added an intraday match to its VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) Cross. The intraday component – which provides participants with execution prices at the day’s consolidated interval (11:00 am-4:00 pm) VWAP – builds on the success of Instinet’s full day VWAP Cross and provides both institutions and broker dealers with a block focused crossing venue that is ideal for trading less liquid stocks.