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Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchanges (CASE) Sign An Agreement With Abu Dhabi Securities Market For Dual Listing

Date 22/03/2006

In line with CASE ongoing plan to promote cooperation with capital markets in the region and attracting more foreign investments, CASE, Abu Dhabi Securities Market and Misr Clearing, Settlement and Central Depository have signed an agreement which allows for dual listing and trading in both markets.
Appointment To The UK’s Monetary Policy Committee

Date 22/03/2006

The Chancellor has today announced to the House of Commons the appointment of Professor David Blanchflower to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to succeed Steve Nickell. This appointment will take effect on 1 June 2006.
Abraaj Capital Becomes First Pure Private Equity Company To Receive Licence To Operate In DIFC

Date 22/03/2006

Abraaj Capital today became the first pure private equity firm to be registered by DFSA to operate out of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
WTO’s Financial Services Negotiations Progressing, Global Securities Industry Provides Key Goals

Date 21/03/2006

The Securities Industry Association (SIA), in conjunction with the Australian Financial Markets Association, the International Capital Market Association and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (the "Associations"), today issued a statement on the WTO’s efforts to further liberalize financial services markets around the globe.
UK's Financial Services Authority Proposes Reforms To Funding Of Compensation Scheme

Date 21/03/2006

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today outlined four possible options for the future funding of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), following concerns raised about the fairness, proportionality and sustainability of the present funding arrangements.

SWX Swiss Exchange Index Adjustments On 3 April 2006 - Update

Date 21/03/2006

SWX message no.12/2006 of 1 March 2006 informed you of the adjustments of free float values and number of shares on 3 April 2006.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 21/03/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, March 21, 2006: CV Technologies Inc. (TSXVN:CVQ) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to the TSX to trade under the same ticker symbol at the opening of trading on Wednesday, March 22, 2006.
Spectacular Growth In The European Repo Market Continues - 10th Repo Survey From ICMA Shows Increase In Market Size Now Estimated At EUR 5,883 Billion

Date 21/03/2006

The International Capital Market Association today released the results of its semi-annual survey of the repo market in Europe conducted on December 7, 2005, which shows that the minimum market size has risen to over EUR 5.8 trillion - an increase in market size of 18% since December 2004. The European repo market now probably exceeds its US equivalent in size. The average size of the participating institutions’ individual repo books, jumped to EUR 74 billion from EUR 66 billion.
SEC Charges 11 More Individuals In Fraudulent "Squawk Box" Scheme

Date 21/03/2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former Merrill Lynch broker and ten former day traders and managers from A.B. Watley, Inc. (Watley), a broker-dealer, with participating in a fraudulent scheme that used squawk boxes to obtain the confidential institutional customer order flow of major brokerages, such as Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch. "Squawk boxes" are devices that broadcast, within a securities firm, institutional orders to buy and sell large blocks of sec
NYSE Regulation Announces 5 Year Membership Bar, 9 Month Plenary Suspension And $100,000 Fine Against Former Senior Floor Broker For Improper Floor Orders

Date 21/03/2006

NYSE Regulation Announces 5 Year Membership Bar, 9 Month Plenary Suspension and $100,000 Fine Against Former Senior Floor Broker for Improper Floor OrdersNEW YORK, March 21, 2006 – NYSE Regulation, Inc., (“NYSE”) announced today that, as the result of a contested hearing, an NYSE Hearing Panel found former NYSE Member Howard Rosen of Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, guilty of misconduct. Rosen received a penalty of a censure, a fine of $100,000, a five year membership ba