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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
NYMEX Holdings, Inc. To Distribute Special Dividend To Shareholders

Date 21/03/2006

NYMEX Holdings, Inc. announced that it will distribute a special dividend tomorrow in the amount of $196,078.43 per share of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. common stock, on a pre-split basis, to shareholders of record as of March 13, 2006.
NextTrack Celebrates Five Years In Business — A Leading Market Segment In Europe, Regularly Expanding Its Line-Up

Date 21/03/2006

NextTrack, the market segment set up by Euronext for trackers and structured funds, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. First launched on Euronext markets in 2001, trackers have shown spectacular growth to make NextTrack a European leader in the field.
New York Stock Exchange Issues Monthly Short Interest Report

Date 21/03/2006

The New York Stock Exchange today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of March 15, 2006 reflecting transactions through March 10, 2006.