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Norton Rose LLP: English Commercial Court Friday's Decision On Derivatives/ Insolvency & Shipping

Date 28/03/2011

On Friday (25 March 2011) the English Commercial Court examined what many financial institutions and financial derivatives end users have thought to be a settled question in the OTC derivatives market- the correct interpretation of Loss and Second Method under the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement.

U.S. Treasury Futures Begin Trading On NYSE Liffe U.S. Today - Eurodollar Futures Traded Nearly 190,000 Contracts In The First Week

Date 28/03/2011

NYSE Liffe U.S., the U.S. futures exchange of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced the immediate availability of 2-year, 5-year and 10-year U.S. Treasury futures along with U.S. Bond and Ultra Bond futures contracts.

SEC Halts $47 Million Investment Fraud At Utah-Based Payday Loan Companies

Date 28/03/2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has obtained a court order freezing the assets of two online payday loan companies and their owner charged with perpetrating a $47 million offering fraud and Ponzi scheme.

Chi-X Europe And Russell Investments To Launch New European Equity Indices - Introducing Competition And Building Better Benchmarks

Date 28/03/2011

Chi-X Europe, the leading pan-European equities exchange, and Russell Investments, owner of global equity benchmarks with US$3.9 trillion in assets benchmarked to them, today announced the creation of an alliance to launch a new series of European indices.

Algirdas ŠEMETA EU Commissioner For Taxation And Customs Union, Audit And Anti-Fraud "Setting Out The Tax Agenda For A Fairer Contribution Of The Financial Sector" Brussels Tax Forum 2011 Brussels, 28 March 2011

Date 28/03/2011

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have the great privilege and pleasure to welcome you to the fifth Brussels Tax Forum. This conference has grown as one of the main European events. Policy-makers, academics, tax practitioners and stakeholders can articulate ideas and proposals and debate about European and international tax issues. I am proud to announce that this year the Brussels Tax Forum is a remarkable success with about 700 participants, the record so far.

Update On Transitional Measure: EU ETS Registries Of Greece And Latvia To Resume Operations On 30 March

Date 28/03/2011

The national emissions registries of Greece and Latvia will resume normal operations on 30 March 2011 at 8am CET.

GigaSpaces And SuperDerivatives Combine Technologies To Increase Clients' Competitive Edge - SuperDerivatives Adds GigaSpaces EXtreme Application Platform To Enhance Risk Management Applications To Speed Performance And Scale On Demand

Date 28/03/2011

GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of virtualized application platforms delivering end-to-end scalability, announces that SuperDerivatives (SD), a world-leading derivatives solutions provider, is using GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) with some of its SD risk management solutions.

Burgundy Goes Live At Interxion’s Stockholm Data Centre

Date 28/03/2011

INTERXION HOLDING NV, (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Burgundy, a trading platform for Nordic securities, has gone live at Interxion’s Nordic Financial Hub in Stockholm.

JSE Weekly Stats Report - Week Ending 25 March

Date 28/03/2011

Click here to download the JSE statistics for the week ending 25 March.

The GCC Needs To Focus On Investments In Renewable Energy & Technology - DIFC Hosts Economic Workshop On Oil Trade And Finance

Date 28/03/2011

DIFC, the global financial hub of the region between the regional emerging markets and the world, today held an economics workshop on latest developments in international financial markets and trade relating to oil and gas.