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SEC Charges Two Wall Street Brokers In $1 Billion Subprime-Related Auction Rate Securities Fraud

Date 03/09/2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Wall Street brokers with defrauding their customers when making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of subprime-related auction rate securities. The SEC's Division of Enforcement in 2007 formed a subprime working group, which is aggressively investigating possible fraud, market manipulation, and breaches of fiduciary duty that may have contributed to the recent turmoil in the credit markets.
California Commodity Pool Operator And Its Sole Manager Charged In Federal Court With Commodity Pool Fraud - Forged Statement Showed Account Had A Net Liquidating Value Of $77 Million When Account Only Had $4,486

Date 03/09/2008

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a federal lawsuit charging Forward Investment Group, LLC (Forward) of Santa Monica, California, and its sole manager, Robert D. Bame of Moreno Valley, California, with committing commodity pool fraud.
S&P Releases Q2 2008 Index Versus Active Fund Scorecard For Canada - Small/Mid Cap Equity Funds Make A Comeback

Date 03/09/2008

Standard & Poor's, the world's leading index provider, announced today the latest results for the Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) for Canada. For the second quarter of 2008, only 31.2% of Canadian equity active fund managers outperformed the S&P/TSX Composite Index. Active managers in the Small/Mid Cap Equity category fared better with 57.7% beating the S&P/TSX Completion Index. Similarly, in the Canadian Focused Equity category 51.7% of active funds out
IntercontinentalExchange Reports 17% Rise In OTC Commissions And 5% Increase In ICE Futures ADV For August 2008

Date 03/09/2008

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global futures exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today reported futures volume and OTC average daily commissions for the month of August 2008.
Kyte Group Deploys RTS Technology To Offer DMA To European Equities With Merrill Lynch X-Direct

Date 03/09/2008

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading trading solutions provider, announced that the Kyte Group Limited (Kyte), a major UK-based clearing firm for derivatives and equities, has deployed RTS technology to offer direct market access (DMA) to European equities via the Merrill Lynch X-Direct trading platform.

CME Group Volume Averaged 11.0 Million Contracts Per Day In August, Assuming Combined CME Group/NYMEX Volumes For Entire Month

Date 03/09/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that August 2008 volume averaged 11.0 million contracts per day, assuming combined CME Group and NYMEX volumes for the entire month. On this basis, total monthly volume totaled 231 million contracts, 80 percent of which were traded electronically. While August typically sees lower trading activity compared with other months, in August 2007 CME Group recorded its highest monthly volume ever due to the onset of t
CESR Members Enhance Supervisory Co-Operation For Branch Supervision

Date 03/09/2008

CESR reports today on the progress made under the protocol for the supervision of branches in the context of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). In the months since the implementation of MiFID on 1 November 2007, 16 agreements for cooperation on the supervision of branches have been concluded between CESR Members. This progress is an important step in order to achieve effective and transparent supervision and to enhance co-operation amongst supervisors.
SGX: Results Of First Review Of STI And FTSE ST Index Series To Be Announced On 11 September 2008

Date 03/09/2008

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), Singapore Exchange (SGX) and FTSE Group (FTSE) will announce the results of the first review of the component stocks of the Straits Times Index (STI) and the 19 other indices in the FTSE ST Index Series after market close on Thursday, 11 September 2008.
"Japanese Economy: Obstacles And Opportunities" Speech By Toshimitsu Motegi,Minister Of State For Financial Services And Administrative Reform Foreign Correspondents’ Club Of Japan - August 25, 2008

Date 03/09/2008

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Börse Berlin Equiduct Trading Appoints Peter Rowe As Director, Head Of Sales, UK, Netherlands And Ireland

Date 03/09/2008

Peter Rowe, 44, has been appointed as Director, Head of Sales, UK, The Netherlands and Ireland for Equiduct Trading in the UK. He was previously Head of UK Sales, NYSE Euronext, and European Sales Director for Archipelago Europe Limited where he was responsible for sales and relationship management to UK member firms. He will join Equiduct on 8th September, working in the London office focusing on the development of Equiduct ahead of the regulated market’s planned pan-European launch later t