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ASEAN Exchanges Complete Technology Design Study Of Trading Link

Date 02/02/2011

Four ASEAN Exchanges, namely Bursa Malaysia (BM), the Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE), Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) working together with NYSE Technologies, today said the design study of the technology framework for the ASEAN Trading Link has been completed.
Osaka Securities Exchange Trading Overview in January 2011

Date 02/02/2011
OSE announced trading overview (preliminary estimates) in January 2011.

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1. Trading value of JASDAQ in January was 557.528 billion yen, which increased 3.7% for three consecutive months after the market integration.
2. Evening session trading volume ratio to the morning & afternoon session in January was 23.8%, which have reached 20% level for nine consecutive months since May 2010.
3. Trading volume of Security Options in January was 177,010 units, which was the highest level since 150,169 units in December 2005 on a month basis.
4. Trading volume of OSE-FX in January was 723,025 units, which have exceeded 700,000 units for the first time in two months and also recorded its second highest on a month basis.
  Trading volume of EUR/JPY was 194,299 units, which recorded its highest on a month basis.
Tokyo Grain Exchange Monthly Trading Report January 2011

Date 02/02/2011

Tokyo Grain Exchange Monthly Trading Report January 2011
SEC General Counsel David Becker To Leave Commission

Date 01/02/2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that General Counsel and Senior Policy Director David M. Becker will leave the Commission at the end of February to return to the private sector.
MGEX Opens 2011 With Strong January Volume And Open Interest Increases

Date 01/02/2011

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), today announced January total Exchange volume of 151,714 contracts, a 50 percent increase over January 2010 total volume. The increase was led by trading of the Exchange’s flagship Hard Red Spring Wheat (HRSW) futures contract which marked 149,924 contracts traded, a 51 percent increase. HRSW options trading
increased 17 percent in the year-over-year period.

ELX Announces Record Volume And Market Share In U.S. Treasuries For The Month Of January

Date 01/02/2011

ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX), a leading electronic futures exchange, announced today that January was a record-setting month for its U.S. Treasury futures contracts. ELX established records in single-day total volume and market share for U.S. Treasuries, with over 100K contracts traded on January 5, 2011 and market share hitting nearly 5% on January 10.
SIFMA Urges Coordination On Creation Of Legal Entity Identification System

Date 01/02/2011

SIFMA, along with The Clearing House, Enterprise Data Management Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Investment Company Institute, and the Managed Funds Association today submitted a comment letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) on a proposal to develop a system of uniform legal entity identifiers (LEIs) to measure and evaluate systemic risk in the financial system.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 01/02/2011

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, February 1, 2011:
CME Group Announces Record Volume For Its Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Futures And Options Contracts

Date 01/02/2011

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced its second consecutive record volume for the global benchmark Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) options contracts. On Monday, January 31, WTI options reached a record of 294,411 contracts, surpassing the previous record of 290,365 contracts set on January 28, 2011.
BM&FBOVESPA Begins Publication Of The New Reference Interest Rates - Interest Rates With Longer Terms Are An Indexation Alternative In The Private-Sector Fixed-Income Market

Date 01/02/2011

BM&FBOVESPA starts today the daily publication of the 3-month Reference Interest Rate (TJ3) and the 6-month Reference Interest Rate (TJ6). Based on the one-day Interbank Deposit Futures Contract ID1 traded on the Exchange, at the end of Tuesday’s trading the TJ3 was fixed at 11.55% and the TJ6 at 12.04%.

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