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FTSE Global Markets Magazine September/October

Date 06/09/2007

The new issue of FTSE Global Markets magazine is now available from www.ftse.com.

Governor Projects Dubai As A Leading Islamic Finance Centre At Economist Conference In Switzerland

Date 06/09/2007

His Excellency Dr. Omar bin Sulaiman, Governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), gave the opening address at yesterday’s Islamic Finance Summit held in Geneva, Switzerland, outlining the importance of Islamic finance in today’s global economy and emphasizing Dubai’s significant role in its development.

RTS Introduces Central Counterparty For The Securities Market

Date 06/09/2007

Beginning 17th of September 2007 Non-commercial Partnership RTS becomes a Central Counterparty for the trades executed on the Order-Driven segment of RTS Classic Market.

CME Group To Offer Electronic Trading Of Weekly FX Options

Date 06/09/2007

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange and the largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange (FX) trading, today announced that it plans to offer electronic trading for weekly FX options on futures with American-style expiration. Beginning Monday, September 10, the weekly options on the following currencies, all trading against the U.S. dollar, will be available virtually 24 hours a day on the CME Globex(R) electronic trading platform: Euro, Japanese yen, British pound,

OMX Baltic 10 Index Futures Introduced

Date 06/09/2007

On August 31, futures on the tradable index OMX Baltic 10 (OMXB10) were introduced marking the first exchange-traded derivatives on a Baltic underlying exposed to investors in one of the leading derivatives marketplaces in Europe. The derivatives market on the Nordic Exchange is the third largest derivatives market in Europe by volume.

Wiener Börse Cash And Derivatives Market Monthly Statistics

Date 06/09/2007

Click here to download Wiener Börse Cash and Derivatives market statistics for July 2007.

HKEx Publishes Trading Statistics For August 2007 - Exchange Participants Statistics, On-Floor And Off-floor Trading Statistics

Date 06/09/2007

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor Main Board + Trading Only Stocks  

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) And Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) Sign Memorandum Of Understanding

Date 06/09/2007

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) today announced they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which lays the foundation for the sharing of information for the potential development of options and other derivatives products. The MOU also provides the opportunity for ongoing educational initiatives designed to enhance the understanding of one another’s products, markets, technologies and regulation. Such collaborative efforts between CBOE and

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - August 2007

Date 06/09/2007

Highlights - Securities Market The securities market turnover for August 2007 reached a single-month record high of $2,168,466 million while average daily turnover of $94,281 million was also the highest in history. On 27 August 2007, the securities market turnover reached a record

SGX Statement On Continued Trading Of STI-linked Products

Date 06/09/2007

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) would like to explain the continued trading of products linked to the Straits Times Index (STI) when there were possible inaccuracies in the computation of the index.