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U.S. Department Of The Treasury: Written Testimony By Secretary Timothy F. Geithner Before The House Committee On Financial Services

Date 01/03/2011

Chairman Bachus, Ranking Member Frank, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify this morning. 

February Statistics Report From The NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchanges

Date 01/03/2011

Record month for Finnish derivatives

February, yet another record month for Finnish derivatives traded at Eurex amounted to 5,109,069 contracts (previous record: 3,847,339 contracts in January, 2011).

Boerse Stuttgart Aims For Strategic Growth In Germany And Abroad - Germany’s Minister Of Finance, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Congratulates The Stock Exchange And In His Speech He Underlines The Importance Of Europe’s Single Currency

Date 01/03/2011

Boerse Stuttgart marked its 150^th anniversary on this date with a celebration at the Liederhalle Culture and Convention Centre in Stuttgart. Addressing the around 500 guests in his opening speech, Christoph Lammersdorf, CEO of Boerse Stuttgart Holding GmbH, laid out Boerse Stuttgart’s strategic ambitions: to build further on its existing position as Germany’s biggest exchange for retail investors and as Europe’s leading specialist stock exchange for securitised derivatives. The event was attended by prominent figures from business and politics, and the list of speakers included Wolfgang Schäuble, the Federal Minister of Finance, and Ernst Pfister, Minister of Economic Affairs of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg.

SEC Charges Bay Area Hedge Fund Manager With Misappropriating "Side Pocketed" Assets

Date 01/03/2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Bay Area hedge fund manager with concealing more than $12 million in investment proceeds that he owed investors in his fund.

CME Group Announced Launch Of 17 New Crude Oil, Fuel Oil And Gasoil Contracts

Date 01/03/2011

CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, yesterday announced the introduction of 17 new crude oil, fuel oil and gasoil futures contracts. The contracts, which were listed for trading effective February 28, 2011, will be traded on the NYMEX floor and available for clearing services through CMEClearPort.

ELX Sets Exchange-Wide ADV And Open Interest Records For The Month Of February

Date 01/03/2011

ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX), a leading electronic futures exchange, announced today that it has established an exchange-wide average daily volume (ADV) record at 97K and an exchange-wide average open interest (OI) record at 320K for the month of February.

BATS Global Markets Reports February Market Share Gains - CHI-X Europe, Brazil Announcements Highlight Month

Date 01/03/2011

BATS Global Markets (BATS) today reported sequential growth for February in the U.S. equities and options markets with matched market share of 10.7% and 1.9%, respectively, compared with January figures of 10.4% and 1.3%. 

Options Industry Council Announces February Options Trading Volume Up 35%

Date 01/03/2011

The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 354,214,236 total options contracts changed hands in February, 34.97 percent more than the 262,434,225 contracts traded in February 2010.

Testimony Of Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. On Behalf SIFMA Before A US Department Of Labor Hearing On The Proposed Definition Of Fiduciary Regulation

Date 01/03/2011

Good morning.  I am Ken Bentsen, Executive Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.   We appreciate the Department’s decision to hold a hearing on this proposal and hope that our comments are helpful to the Department as it assesses the impact of the proposal on plans and their participants.

KCBT February Trading Volume Second Largest In Exchange History

Date 01/03/2011

Kansas City Board of Trade trading volume was active in February, resulting in the second-highest trading volume month in exchange history. As a result, new calendar month volume records were set for both the HRW wheat futures contract and the exchange as a whole. This marks the ninth consecutive month a new calendar month record has been set for HRW wheat futures. New exchange calendar month volume records have been set eight out of the last nine months.