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  • Record Trading At OMX Nordic Exchange

    Date 05/11/2007

    October saw a record in share trading at the Nordic Exchange. On October 16, the share trading value was EUR 11.4 billion (previous record: EUR 9.7 billion on May 3, 2007). Record figures in share trading were also recorded for the month, reaching EUR 130.4 billion in total (previous record: EUR 127.0 billion, August 2007). During the month 6 new companies have been listed at main market and 5 new companies have joined First North.

  • CESR Publishes Its Timetable To Fulfil The Request From The European Commission To Review The Role Of Credit Rating Agencies

    Date 05/11/2007

    Following the European Commission’s additional request for CESR to review several aspects of the rating process regarding structured finance instruments (Ref. CESR/07-608), CESR has reviewed its work plan and issues today further information on additional elements that will be covered, and the timetable for its work.

  • HKEx: Earlier Disclosure Of Information By IPO Applicants

    Date 05/11/2007

    The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published a joint policy statement on a pilot scheme for posting a Web Proof Information Pack, or WPIP, on the HKEx Website prior to the issue of an initial public offering (IPO) prospectus.

  • B Share Scheme Arragements To Facilitate Membership Of The London Metal Exchange

    Date 05/11/2007

    The following member notice 07 / 304 : A247 has today been issued. On 17 July 2007 the Exchange published detailed documentation (the B Share Scheme Documentation) concerning a mechanism to help new applicants for membership of the Exchange acquire the B Shares in LME Holdings Limited (the Company) necessary for membership (the B Share Scheme). The B Share Scheme Documentation is available on the Exchange’s website www.lme.com/membership_how.

  • International Financial Services London: Robust Growth Of UK Financial Services In First Nine Months Of 2007

    Date 05/11/2007

    Despite recent turbulance in financial markets, international business in the UK financial sector has shown robust growth in the first nine months of 2007 according to a new edition of IFSL’s International Financial Markets in the UK report.

  • SGX To Launch Mini Nikkei 225 Index Futures And Reduce Contract Sizes For Its India And China Futures

    Date 05/11/2007

    Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is pleased to announce that it will launch the SGX Mini Nikkei 225 Index Futures contract on Monday, 19 November 2007. In addition, SGX will reduce the contract sizes for the SGX Nifty India Index Futures as well as the SGX FTSE/Xinhua China A50 Index Futures contracts on the same day.

  • Oslo Børs: Monthly Statistics For Bonds And Certificates 2007

    Date 05/11/2007

    Turnover per sector and new issues for last month and year to date. The archive includes monthly statistics from May 2001.

  • STOXX Launches Blue-Chip Index For The Balkans

    Date 05/11/2007

    STOXX Ltd., the leading European index provider, today launched the Dow Jones STOXX Balkan 50 Equal Weighted Index, a blue-chip index measuring the performance of the 50 largest and most liquid stocks traded in the Balkan region.

  • ICAP Launches Gold/Yen Pair On EBS Platform

    Date 05/11/2007

    ICAP plc (IAP.L), the world’s premier interdealer broker, is to launch a new metals product on its award-winning electronic trading platform EBS. The introduction of gold/yen (XAU/JPY) on Monday 5 November brings to five the total number of metals pairs available on EBS and is the first non-US dollar metals pair available on the system. The introduction of gold/yen follows increased customer demand for this product.

  • DCE Reports October 2007 Statistics

    Date 05/11/2007

    According to the latest statistics from China Futures Association, the performance of the national futures market in general was stable. For China's futures market as a whole, in October, the total volume and turnover increased 119.15% and 138.67% respectively from a year ago to 76.3 million contracts, worth 3.7 trillion yuan, and was 10.65% and 2.84% upper than September 2007 respectively. The newly listed RBD palm oil futures appeared brisk this month and achieved a trading volume of 34236 con