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RTS Stock Exchange Celebrates 16 Years

Date 07/07/2011

RTS Stock Exchange is celebrating sixteen years since the first trading in Russian securities took place. Starting from July 5, 1995 RTS Stock Exchange has opened daily trading sessions for all stock market participants, allowing them to perform transactions in securities and derivatives instruments.

ESMA Publishes The Results Of An Investigation Into How Member States Have Implemented The Transparency Directive

Date 07/07/2011

ESMA publishes today a review (ESMA/2011/194) of how securities regulators across Europe use options and discretions under the Transparency Directive (TD). This mapping focused on those parts of the TD and its implementing measures that the participating 29 EU/EEA Member States are allowed to apply in different ways. The main purpose of the stock-take was to ascertain the extent to which Member States introduced options, discretions, additional requirements and/or more stringent rules in their national legislation in this respect. 

HKFE Announces Margin Rates For Adjusted Bank Of Communications Futures Contracts

Date 07/07/2011

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced that with effect from the commencement of trading on Friday, 8 July 2011, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contracts will be as outlined in the table below. The margins are based on the clearing company's normal procedures and standard margining methodology.

SGX Proposes Circuit Breakers In Securities Market

Date 07/07/2011

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is consulting the public on its proposal to introduce circuit breakers in the securities market.   

HKEx Publishes Trading Statistics For June 2011

Date 07/07/2011

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor

MTS To Launch Hungarian Government Bond Market - Brings Number Of Countries Already Using MTS Bond Markets To 16

Date 07/07/2011

MTS, Europe’s premier facilitator for the electronic fixed income market, today announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government Debt Management Agency Pte Ltd (ÁKK Zrt), the Hungarian debt management agency, to launch an electronic interdealer market for local government debt.

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - June 2011

Date 07/07/2011

Highlights

- Securities Market

• Funds raised by initial public offerings for the first six months of 2011 was $171,199 million, an increase of 240 per cent when compared with $50,413 million for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover for the first six months of 2011 was $73,578 million, an increase of 15 per cent when compared with $63,833 million for the same period last year. 
• The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first six months of 2011 was $12,114 million, an increase of 30 per cent when compared with $9,312 million for the same period last year.

HKEx To Introduce T+2 Finality On 25 July

Date 07/07/2011

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced today that it will introduce a T+2 Finality arrangement for money settlement in CCASS, the Central Clearing and Settlement System for the Hong Kong securities market, on Monday, 25 July following the successful completion of the simulation test and the approval of necessary rule amendments by the Securities and Futures Commission.

Deutsche Börse: Four New UBS ETFs Launched On Xetra

Date 07/07/2011

Four new ETFs issued by UBS ETFs plc have been tradable in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment since today.

Eurex Further Expands Its Italian Government Bonds Derivatives Offering - Medium-Term Interest Rate Contract To Launch On 19 September 2011 - New Contract Complements The Already Listed Euro BTP Future And Short-Term Euro BTP Future

Date 07/07/2011