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FORTS: Brent Futures Contract Breaches The USD100 Million Mark For The First Time

Date 02/09/2010

September 1, 2010 saw a record trading activity in the Brent futures contract, with market participants making a record number of trades (4,474 trades) for a record value of RUB3,100,321,418 (or USD100.4 million) represented by 133,685 contracts.
SMX Completes First Trading, Clearing & Settlement Cycle Successfully - First Pan-Asian Multi-Product Commodity And Currency Derivatives Exchange Builds Upon Its Proven And Scalable Systems And Risk Management

Date 02/09/2010

Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), the first pan-Asian multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange, successfully completed its first trading, clearing and settlement cycle.
Eik Bank Selects Orc Software For Trading On Nasdaq OMX Nordic

Date 02/09/2010

Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology and services for advanced trading in financial instruments, today announced that Eik Bank, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has selected Orc Trading to support the firm’s execution and proprietary trading. The order was booked in Q2, 2010, and the contract is based on Orc’s licensing subscription model.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Trading Conditions - Outlook & Initial Figures - August 2010

Date 02/09/2010

This report contains trading conditions of the Tokyo Stock Exchange for August 2010.
MGEX Ends August, Fiscal Year On Strong Volume

Date 01/09/2010

MGEX (Exchange), a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), today announced August 2010 total volume of 206,447 contracts traded, marking the third-best total volume month in Exchange history. Fiscal year 2009-2010 total volume reached 1,543,550, the fourth-highest fiscal year volume ever at MGEX. August 2010 volume was 75 percent higher than the previous August. Fiscal year 2009-2010 total volume was nearly 31 percent better than the previous fiscal year.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 01/09/2010

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Wednesday, September 1, 2010: Sierra Geothermal Power Corp. (TSXVN:SRA) will be removed from the index. The shares of the company have been acquired, pursuant to a Plan of Arrangement, by Ram Power Corp. (TSX:RPG).
ROFEX: Strong Growth And Record For Financial Futures

Date 01/09/2010

For ROFEX, August was a month of intense activity in its Financial Derivatives Division (DDF). The contract volume increased by 105,64 % as compared to the same month in 2009 and the first two weeks of August ranked first and second in the weekly volume ranking.
Options Clearing Corporation Announces Total Contract Volume Remained Flat In August While Stock Loan Program Activity Continued To Grow

Date 01/09/2010

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that total OCC cleared volume in August reached 285,128,314 contracts, representing a 1% decrease over the August 2009 volume of 287,627,998 contracts. OCC’s year-to-date average daily volume is up 7% compared to 2009 with 15,440,615 and year-to-date total volume is up 7% with 2,578,582,756 contracts. Activity in OCC’s securities lending program has continued to grow with an 88% increase over last August.
CBOE Reports August 2010 Trading Volume

Date 01/09/2010

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today reported that daily volume in August averaged 3.5 million contracts, a nine-percent decline from July 2010 average daily volume (ADV) of 3.9 million contracts and down 21 percent from August 2009 ADV of 4.4 million contracts.
BM&FBOVESPA: New Fee Policy For High-Frequency Traders (HFT)

Date 01/09/2010

BM&FBOVESPA presented at beginning of August its new fee policy for the transactions carried out by High-Frequency Traders (HFTs) in the Bovespa and BM&F market segments. All investors will benefit from this policy by way of increased liquidity and tighter spreads which are a direct result of the increased participation of High-Frequency Traders. The new policy will be implemented in two stages, in accordance with the timetable described below: