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DIFX Appoints Per E. Larsson As New Chief Executive To Lead Next Phase Of Growth

Date 28/03/2006

The Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) yesterday announced the appointment of Per E. Larsson, former head of the Sweden-based OM Group (now OMX and owner of several Nordic Exchanges), as the next Chief Executive of the exchange. He will take up his post in early July 2006.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange - Focus: Structural Factors Explain The High Number Of Cross Trades Executed In Denmark

Date 28/03/2006

In Focus no. 107 from Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Nikolaj Hesselholt Munch, analyses the high number of cross trades executed in Denmark and compares it with Sweden and Finland.
CME Eurodollar Options Begin Trading Via Bloomberg Tradebook - Exchange Continues To Broaden Distribution Of Benchmark Products

Date 28/03/2006

CME, the world’s largest and most diverse financial exchange, announced today that CME Eurodollar options strategies are now available to users of the BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® service, the leading global electronic agency brokerage for futures, equities, and options.
ASX And SFE Merger Proposal - Transcript Of Analyst Briefing

Date 28/03/2006

Click here to download the transcript of the analyst briefing of the ASX and SFE merger proposal.
AIM Software Launches Third Global Data And Risk Management Survey - Practitioners Are Invited To Participate In This Year's Assessment Of The Industry's Progress In Back-Office Automation

Date 28/03/2006

In recent years, few areas of operations have attracted as much interest as reference data management and risk management. But how successful have financial institutions actually been in improving automation levels within their companies? What are the driving forces for reference data automation? And how mature are back office systems in those areas?

World Economic Forum Comes To New York – With New Office And U.S. Team

Date 27/03/2006

The World Economic Forum today celebrates the opening of its new North American headquarters in New York. To mark the event, the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and the new head of the US operation, Jean-Pierre Rosso, will ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ tomorrow (28 March).
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Deliverable Bonds And Conversion Factors Of JGB Futures (5-year & 10-year) As Of March 27, 2006

Date 27/03/2006

The deliverable bonds and conversion factors of JGB Futures (5-year & 10-year) can be accessed by clicking here and here.
Tokyo Financial Exchange: Trading of Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts Starts 15 Minutes Earlier on 3 April 2006

Date 27/03/2006

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for all Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 3 April 2006, responding to the release of BOJ’s TANKAN report at 8:50am.
TietoEnator And OMX’s Cooperation Change Direction

Date 27/03/2006

In December 2005, OMX and TietoEnator announced an intention to create a joint venture company providing solutions and services for Nordic securities processing. The parties have now mutually decided to cooperate in IT operations, without establishing a jointly owned company.
Standard & Poor's Announces The S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index Rebalancing Report For March 2006

Date 27/03/2006

Standard & Poor's has completed the monthly rebalancing of the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index. According to index methodology, the universe of Canadian bonds is exhaustively reviewed to reflect changes in par amount and term to existing index constituents. Qualifying new issues are added to the index and existing constituents that no longer meet the criteria for inclusion are removed.