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SEC Charges Former Chief Accounting Officer Of Beazer Homes For Fraudulent Earnings Management Scheme

Date 01/07/2009

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former chief accounting officer of Atlanta-based home builder Beazer Homes, USA, Inc., for conducting a multi-year fraudulent earnings management scheme and misleading Beazer's outside auditors and internal Beazer accountants in order to conceal his wrongdoing.
KCBT June Volume Tops May Volume By 83.4 Percent

Date 01/07/2009

Kansas City Board of Trade trading volume for the month of June tallied 444,503 contracts, an increase of 83.4 percent from May 2009 volume of 242,335 contracts.
US Options Exchanges Battle For Liquidity As Pennies, Internalization And Regulatory Environment Shift Landscape - Maker-Taker Volume Will Account For 20% Of Total Volume By 2010, Says TABB Group; Consolidation Inevitable If New Exchanges Are Launched

Date 01/07/2009

According to the first research study in an ongoing series on US options market structure published today by TABB Group, “US Options Market Structure: The Shifting Exchange Landscape,” US options exchanges are mired in a battle for liquidity, using constantly fluctuating trading rules, market models and fee initiatives to attract critical order flow from market makers, sell-side trading desks and buy-side traders.Trading under the specter of an uncertain regulatory environment, option m
CME Announces The Launch Of Clearing Services For Physical Natural Gas Liquids

Date 01/07/2009

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of clearing services for six new physically delivered natural gas liquids futures contracts. Clearing services will be available through CME ClearPort(R), a set of flexible clearing services open to over-the-counter (OTC) market participants to substantially mitigate counterparty risk and provide capital efficiencies across asset classes, beginning on July 19 for trade date July 20. These co
The Options Industry Council Announces June Volume Is Up 4 Percent

Date 01/07/2009

The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 315,656,061 total options contracts changed hands in June, representing a 3.83 percent increase over June 2008 when 304,003,964 contracts were traded.

Javelin Investment Management Lists JETS Dow Jones Islamic Market International Index Fund On NYSE Arca

Date 01/07/2009

NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, NYSE Arca, today began trading the JETS Dow Jones Islamic Market International Index Fund under the ticker symbol “JVS.” The ETF is sponsored by Javelin Investment Management, LLC.
London Stock Exchange Introduces New Order Book Pricing

Date 01/07/2009

London Stock Exchange Group today announced a new, simplified fee structure for trading on its UK order books. The new structure, to be introduced from 1 September, will deliver benefits to a broad cross section of the Exchange’s diverse customer base.
NYSE Cuts Order-Execution Time To 5 Milliseconds From 105 - New System Offers More Speed, Flexibility And Scalability, Plus Lower Operating Costs

Date 01/07/2009

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has reduced the time it takes to execute an order to five milliseconds from 105 milliseconds, with the implementation of the new NYSE Super Display Book system (SDBK) for processing orders. As a result, NYSE customers are experiencing trade executions and reports within five milliseconds, as well as order and cancellation acknowledgments in just two milliseconds.
Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Publishes Its 2008 Annual Report And Presents Its Strategic Plan

Date 01/07/2009

Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Chairman of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), presented the authority's sixth annual report, concerning 2008, to the press on 29 June 2009. He also outlined the strategic plan for the next five years. Going forward, the AMF's priorities will be based on three main lines of action: Enhancing investment protection and bolstering the confidence of individual investors; Delivering heightened risk monitoring, closer supervision of market participants, and
Newedge To Offer FCM Services For ELX Futures

Date 01/07/2009

ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX Futures), a new fully electronic futures exchange, and Newedge, a leader in global brokerage, announced today that Newedge USA, LLC, with its membership in the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), will become a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) for ELX Futures, which will launch July 10 as a live platform to trade U.S. Treasury futures contracts.