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Joint Associations Committee Releases Combined Principles For Retail Structured Products

Date 23/05/2011

The Joint Associations Committee on Retail Structured Products is pleased to announce it is reaffirming the set of principles for managing the provider-distributor relationship (PD Principles) in retail structured products and the principles for managing the distributor-individual investor relationship (DI Principles), originally published in July 2007 and July 2008 respectively.
Atrium Network Extends Its Low-Latency Network To Equinix’s Zurich Data Centre

Date 23/05/2011

Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity solutions for the financial community, today announced it has opened a new point of presence (POP) at Equinix’s ZH4 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in Zurich. Atrium Network’s POPs in Equinix facilities in Geneva and now Zurich, ensure customers benefit from low latency access to both Swiss and non-Swiss markets.
Batterymarch Financial Management Deploys FlexTRADER EMS

Date 23/05/2011

FlexTrade Systems, Inc., a global leader in broker-neutral execution and order management systems, today announced Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. has deployed FlexTRADER, the award-winning EMS world-renowned for its combined high performance and multi-asset trading capabilities.
Platts Data Selected As Basis For 27 New ICE Energy Contracts

Date 23/05/2011

Platts’ physical market price assessments for oil, refined petroleum products, and North American natural gas have been selected as the basis for 27 new cleared over-the-counter (OTC) energy contracts by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), a U.S.-based operator of derivatives and OTC markets. Platts is a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information and a top publisher of global benchmark price references.
Bloomberg Tech Survey Finds CIOs Shifting To Managed Solutions - First Enterprise Technology Summit Draws Top Industry Leaders

Date 23/05/2011

Leading financial technology executives say they want innovations that allow them to process more data more quickly, cheaply and reliably, according to results of a Bloomberg survey revealed today. The poll was taken at Bloomberg LINK's first Enterprise Technology Summit, an invitation-only seminar that brought together more than 100 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and technology decision-makers from major financial services firms.

Semi-Annual Changes To The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index

Date 23/05/2011

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and CRD Analytics announced today the results of the semi-annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index (Nasdaq:QCRD), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, May 23, 2011.
Thai Listed Firms’ Q1/2011 Total Profits Up Nearly 30% Reaching Q1 Record High

Date 23/05/2011

Companies listed on The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) continue to report record high sales and earnings, with total profits for Q1/2011 of THB205.29 billion (approx. USD6.62 billion) or a 29.74% rise from Q1/2010, when total profits were THB158.24 billion (approx. USD5.10 billion). During Q1/2011, total sales were THB2.12 trillion (approx. USD68.41 billion) or an 18.22% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase. The top-3 industry groups with the highest profits were Industrials, Resources and Financials; PTT, SCB, IVL, PTTEP and SCC were the top-5 companies with the highest net profit.
Instinet Adds Intraday US VWAP Cross

Date 23/05/2011

Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that its US brokerage subsidiary, Instinet, LLC, has added an intraday match to its VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) Cross. The intraday component – which provides participants with execution prices at the day’s consolidated interval (11:00 am-4:00 pm) VWAP – builds on the success of Instinet’s full day VWAP Cross and provides both institutions and broker dealers with a block focused crossing venue that is ideal for trading less liquid stocks.
Securities Commission Malaysia: Fund Management Companies’ Compliance Guidelines Revised To Further Safeguard Investors' Interests

Date 23/05/2011

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today released a revised version of the Guidelines on Compliance Function for Fund Managers (Guidelines) to enhance client asset protection and further safeguard the interests of investors in a number of areas.
JSE Powers Exotic Derivatives Offering With SuperDerivatives Market Data

Date 23/05/2011

SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and multi-asset front office system, announced today that it will provide the market data to power the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) new exotic currency options offering, namely the ‘any-day expiry’ contracts.