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Thai Listed Firms’ 9M/10 Net Profits Up 32% Over 9M/09

Date 18/11/2010

Companies listed on The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) posted 9M /2010 net profits of THB436 billion (approx. USD14.52), an increase of 32.41% year-on-year (y-o-y), with total sales of THB5.37 trillion, a 18.30% rise y-o-y. The top three industry groups in terms of absolute amounts and in descending order were the Resources, Financials, and Property and Construction Industry Groups. The top five firms, in descending order of profitability in absolute amounts were PTT, PTTEP, SCC, BANPU and
CESR’s Comment Letter On EFRAG’s Draft Response On The IASB’s Exposure Draft Deferred Tax: Recovery Of Underlying Assets – Proposed Amendments To IAS 12 (Ref: CESR/10-1370)

Date 18/11/2010

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New Trading Records On Security And Currency Contracts Set On FORTS

Date 18/11/2010

On November 17, 2010 the total trading volume of futures and options on FORTS amounted to USD7,240,105,875 (RUB224,848,728,064), setting a new main session trading record on the RTS derivatives market.
HKFE Announces Revised Margins For H-shares Index And Mini H-shares Index Futures

Date 18/11/2010

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 Monday, 22 November 2010, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contract will be as outlined in the table below. The adjustments are based on the clearing company's normal procedures and standard margi
BME Sets Up Two Hubs In London To Access The Spanish Stock Market - It Brings The Spanish Stock Market Closer To Investors In London

Date 18/11/2010

BME, through its IT subsidiary Visual Trader Systems, has set up two new hubs in London to access the Spanish stock exchange. Equipped with the necessary communication infrastructure, the hubs will allow investors to connect to the Spanish equities and derivatives platforms, SIBE and MEFF, respectively.

HKEx: New Measures To Raise Investors’ Awareness Of Synthetic ETFs

Date 18/11/2010

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced today (Thursday) a new effort to raise investors’ awareness of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that primarily adopt synthetic replication strategy (synthetic ETFs). A traditional ETF (also known as physical ETF) invests in securities that replicate or represent the composition of the index it tracks, and a synthetic ETF uses financial derivative instruments to track index perform
F&C Fund Management Limited Selects Calastone’s Automated Messaging Settlement Service

Date 18/11/2010

F&C Fund Management Limited, a leading diversified multi-specialist investment management group with a heritage spanning more than 140 years, has today signed an agreement to use Calastone’s settlement and matching service.
London Stock Exchange Group Plc Announcement Of Interim Results For The Six Months Ended 30 September 2010

Date 18/11/2010

Good financial performance reflecting diversified Group business, with an 11 per cent increase in adjusted earnings per share Significant progress achieved in delivering Group strategy to transform business, including roll out of new high performance trading system and a range of product initiatives including plans for trading equity derivatives on Turquoise in the second quarter of 2011
Fidessa's Sell-Side Trading Platform Voted Best Order Management Product At Banking Technology Awards

Date 18/11/2010

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of high performance trading, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, has won the Readers’ Choice award for the best trading platform/order management product at the 2010 Banking Technology awards.
SET In The City, The Greatest Thai Investment Fair Of The Year, Starts Today

Date 18/11/2010

Deputy Prime Minister Trairong Suwankiri presided over the event “SET in the City Bangkok” for the year 2010, under the theme “SET Your Future,” organized by The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and gave the keynote speech “Let’s Set Thailand Forward.” Many executives from capital market organizations joined the event.