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Trading In The First Russian Five-Year Futures On The USD/RUB Exchange Rate Launches On FORTS

Date 03/09/2010

On September 1, 2010 at 7.00 pm (at the start of the evening trading session) trading in the futures contract on the USD/RUB exchange rate with settlement on September 15, 2015 started on FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS. This instrument has become the Exchange contract with the longest settlement term among existing instruments on the Russian stock market.
NASDAQ OMX Congratulates Atlas Copco To 90 Years On The Exchange

Date 03/09/2010

NASDAQ OMX congratulates Atlas Copco, which 90 years ago today became listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The very first trade in Atlas Copco took place on September 14 with a turnover of 100 shares at 50 SEK per share, compared with today's daily turnover of over 6 million shares per day, making it one of the most traded companies in the Nordic region. In 1920 the total turnover at the Stockholm exchange was 328 million SEK, to be compared with the annual turnover in 2009 of around 3400
Nordic Growth Market NGM AB: Record Turnover At Nordic Derivatives Exchange

Date 03/09/2010

In August 2010 turnover at NDX, Nordic Derivatives Exchange, reached 1, 8 bn SEK, an all-time-high volume. In comparison with August 2009 the increase is fourfold. The number of transactions increased by 132 % to 39 076 (16 815).
NZX In Forbes Best Under A Billion List For The Fourth Year Running

Date 03/09/2010

NZX has been selected as one of the top performing companies in the Asia Pacific region for the fourth year in a row, making it into the elite Forbes Best Under a Billion list for 2010
NZX Group Operational Report June 2010

Date 03/09/2010

NZX published today the Group Operational Report for June 2010. According to it, the total value traded on NZX Securities Markets in June 2010 was $1,716 million, a decrease of 24% as liquidity conditions in New Zealand and globally remain challenging. Total value traded on the Debt Securities Markets was $133 million, an increase of 3% compared to May 2010, predominantly due to an increase in the number of trades less than $50,000 in size, which suggests broader participation in the Debt Market

CFTC: Honolulu-based Marvin Cooper And His Company, Billion Coupons, Inc., Ordered To Pay More Than $6.2 Million In Sanctions In Connection With Ponzi Scheme Targeting The Deaf Community

Date 02/09/2010

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it obtained more than $6.2 million in disgorgement and civil monetary penalties in a federal court summary judgment against defendants Marvin Cooper and his company, Billion Coupons, Inc. (BCI), both of Honolulu, Hawaii. The CFTC charged defendants with operating a $4 million foreign currency (forex) and commodity futures Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 125 customers, all of whom were deaf.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 02/09/2010

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The unitholders of Vermilion Energy Trust (TSX:VET.UN) have approved the conversion of the company to a corporate structure through a Plan of Arrangement. The units will be exchanged on a 1-for-1 basis for Vermilion Energy Inc. (TSX:VET). As a result of the conversion, Vermilion Energy Trust will be removed from the S&P/TSX Income Trust and Capped Energy Trust Indices. Vermilion Energy Inc. will be ad
SEC Charges New Jersey Investment Adviser In Multi-Million Dollar Offering Fraud

Date 02/09/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Branchburg, N.J.-based investment adviser and three of her firms with operating a multi-million dollar offering fraud involving the sale of phony promissory notes to investors, many of whom are retired or unsophisticated in investments.
CalPERS Board Election Begins September 3, 2010

Date 02/09/2010

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is conducting an election this fall to fill the State representative seat on the CalPERS Board of Administration.
SEC Adopts Temporary Rule Requiring Municipal Advisors To Register With Agency

Date 02/09/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisors to register with the SEC by October 1, a deadline established by the newly-enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.