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  • Oslo Børs: New Rules For Market Participants From 1 January 2008

    Date 10/01/2008

    Important changes to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act and the Stock Exchange Act came into force with effect from the start of 2008. The changes affect areas such as mandatory and voluntary offers, disclosure of changes in large shareholdings and various other changes affecting issuers of stock exchange listed shares. These changes largely represent the implementation in Norwegian law of European directives, namely the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)

  • Dubai Mercantile Exchange Receives Regulatory Approval For Block Trading Of Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract

    Date 10/01/2008

    The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME) has received approval from its regulator, the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), to implement a “Block Trade Rule”. Members and customers complying with the new rule’s conditions will be able to submit privately-negotiated transactions of the Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract to the DME from January 14, 2008.

  • ICE Futures Europe Achieves Record Volume - ICE Brent Crude Futures Volume Surpasses 400,000 Mark

    Date 10/01/2008

    IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, announced that its ICE Futures Europe(TM) subsidiary yesterday set a new exchange-wide daily volume record and for the first time surpassed the 400,000 mark in ICE Brent Crude futures contract daily volume. On Wednesday, January 9, ICE Brent Crude futures volume reached 409,288, surpassing by 6% the previous record of 387,422 contracts established on May 15, 2007.

  • NSX Announces Record Annual Net Cash Flow Into ETFs Surpassing $152 Billion

    Date 10/01/2008

    National Stock Exchange(SM) (NSX(R)) today announced that net cash flow into U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) during 2007 totaled $152.2 billion through year-end, an increase of approximately 111 percent from 2006.

  • UK's Financial Services Authority Appoints Sally Dewar As Managing Director, Wholesale

    Date 10/01/2008

    The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today announced the appointment of Sally Dewar as its new managing director of wholesale. She succeeds Hector Sants who became chief executive in July last year. Sally is currently the director of markets at the FSA. She will also join the FSA Board as will be announced by HM Treasury later today.