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Bahrain Financial Exchange: Prominent Scholars Discuss Islamic Finance Solutions

Date 01/02/2010

The Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX) and Bursa Malaysia, organised a forum to discuss matters related to Islamic liquidity management and financing and in particular contemporary issues relating to commodity Murabaha transactions and Tawarruq practices. This forum was part of a two-day event marking the inauguration of a commercial relationship between the two exchanges. The underpinning for this relationship is to provide financial products to Islamic market participants and s
IOSCO Quarterly Update For January 2010

Date 01/02/2010

IOSCO Quarterly Update for January 2010 contains information about IOSCO's recent publications and news of upcoming events.
Eurex: Successful Launch Of New Eurex Repo USD GC Pooling Segment - New Currency Segment Within GC Pooling Market Launched On 29 January 2010 - GC Pooling Market To Cover Secured Funding In Euro And U.S. Dollar

Date 01/02/2010

Eurex Repo and Clearstream announced today that they launched a new currency segment within the GC Pooling® market, Eurex Repo’s secured money market.
AboveNet Confirmed As Leading High Bandwidth Fibre Provider To London's Data Centre Community - Now Provides Ultra-Low Latency Connection To More Than 30 Data Centres Across The London Area

Date 01/02/2010

AboveNet Communications UK Ltd., a leading provider of ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth fibre optic connectivity solutions, has extended its dedicated fibre network to Sentrum's major new 200,000 square foot Sentrum IV data centre facility in Woking, Surrey.
ETF Exchange (ETFX) Announces The Addition Of Barclays Capital To Join The World’s First Third Generation ETF Platform Today

Date 01/02/2010

Confirmed participants on the platform with Barclays Capital are BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, and Rabobank International. Issuing 3rd generation ETFs pioneered by ETF Securities. ETFX offers a total of 21 equity ETFs comprising Europe’s first platform of resource-equity ETFs and double leveraged (2x) and double short (-2x) ETFs. Equity AUM growth up over 65% in three months to over $350m.

Clearstream Establishes Direct Access To The Icelandic Market

Date 01/02/2010

NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that Clearstream, the international central securities depository, will establish direct access to the Icelandic market as of today. This will ease international investors' access to equities and bonds listed on the Icelandic Securities Depository (NASDAQ OMX Icelandic markets). Furthermore it can facilitate domestic issuers' access to capital.
London Stock Exchange's New Retail Bond Market Goes Live - Broad Support For New Platform

Date 01/02/2010

The London Stock Exchange today launched its new electronic Order book for Retail Bonds. Introduced in response to strong private investor demand for greater access to fixed income, it offers continuous two-way pricing for trading in UK gilts and retail-size corporate bonds on-exchange for the first time.
Dow Jones STOXX 600 Factoid - January 29, 2010

Date 01/02/2010

As of January 29, 2010 Dow Jones STOXX 600, down 6.20 points this month, or -2.45%, to 246.96. Snaps a two month winning streak. Worst month since February 2009. This week, Dow Jones STOXX 600, down 2.95 points, or -1.18%. Down for three consecutive weeks. Down 12.19 points, or -4.70%, over the last three weeks. Today, Dow Jones STOXX 600, up 2.35 points, or 0.96%. Snaps a two day losing streak Lar
SGX Fuel Oil Futures Contract To Start On 22 February 2010

Date 01/02/2010

Singapore Exchange (SGX) will start trading its new Fuel Oil 380-centistoke futures contract (FO 380 Contract) on Monday, 22 February 2010.
ASX IPO Workshop To Provide Guidance To Small Caps

Date 01/02/2010

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in association with Wholesale Investor will be holding an IPO Workshop designed to introduce private small cap companies to the fundamentals of IPO (Initial Public Offering) planning from a financial, legal, fundraising and broking perspective.