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UK’s Financial Services Authority Publishes Final Rules On Financial Groups

Date 21/07/2004

The FSA has today published its final rules for financial groups. These rules will implement the requirements of the Financial Groups Directive, which introduces for the first time a financial regime for financial conglomerates – those firms whose activities span both the banking and investment sectors, and the insurance sector. These new requirements are designed to improve the stability of the financial system, and by doing so protect customers of financial groups.
UK Treasury And The Financial Services Authority: Implementing EU Financial Groups Directive

Date 21/07/2004

The Treasury and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) today published jointly the Policy Statement, PS 04/20 Financial Groups, on implementing the EU Financial Groups Directive in the UK The Financial Groups Directive requires the additional prudential supervision of financial groups that straddle the insurance, banking and investment sectors significant
The Committee Of European Securities Regulators Announces With Deep Sadness The Passing Away Of Mr Jacob Kaptein

Date 21/07/2004

The Committee of European Securities Regulators Announces With Deep Sadness The Passing Away Of Mr Jacob Kaptein
Statoil ASA (ADR) IWF Increase In The S&P ADR Indices

Date 21/07/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P ADR Indices, effective at the close of trading on Thursday, July 22, 2004:
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes To S&P Index

Date 21/07/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index:

SEC Extends Comment Period For Proposed Regulation B, Provisions Implementing Gramm-Leach-Bliley Bank Broker Rules

Date 21/07/2004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to extend for 30 days the comment period on the proposed Regulation B published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2004. This proposed regulation is designed to implement provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 that delineate the securities activities banks may engage in without registering as brokers under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
OMHEX - Interim Report Jan-June 2004

Date 21/07/2004

Restructuring completed on target Revenue was SEK 1,663 m (1,307), including SEK 108 m from sale of NGX and XACT Operating income amounted to SEK 424 m (neg: 513) Adjusted operating income was SEK 316 m (11) Income after financial items totaled SEK 406 m (neg: 521) Income after tax was SEK 267 m (neg: 457) Earnings per share at SEK 2.31 (neg: 5.44) Merger of APK and VPC proposed Full savings effect of cost-efficiency program achieved
NYSE CEO John Thain Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs

Date 21/07/2004

Today at 10 a.m., John Thain will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in Washington, DC on "Regulation NMS and Developments in Market Structure."
NYBOT Announces Change To Position Limits For Four Currency Futures Contracts

Date 21/07/2004

The New York Board of Tradeâ (NYBOTâ) announced today that:
National Stock Exchange Of Lithuania Semi-Annual Financial Results For 2004

Date 21/07/2004

The pre-tax profit of the National Stock Exchange of Lithuania (NSEL) for the first six months of 2004 totalled EUR 302.65 thousand, compared to the result of EUR 54.45 thousand for the same period the year before. The total sales of the NSEL during the first six months of 2004 amounted EUR 742.88 thousand, which demonstrates a 67.32% increase from the same period of the previous year. As of 30 June 2004, the shareholders’ equity stood at EUR 1,839.38 thousand on 30 June 2004. The results for 20