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Chicago Board Of Trade To Celebrate Initial Public Offering At The NYSE - Chairman Charles P. Carey And President & CEO Bernard W. Dan To Ring The Opening Bell™

Date 19/10/2005

Directors, executives and guests of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Wed. Oct. 19 to celebrate its initial public offering on the NYSE. CBOT will trade under the ticker symbol (“BOT.”)
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services - “IFRS – No Pain, No Gain?” - Official Opening Of FEE’s (Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens) New Offices, Brussels, 18 October 2005

Date 19/10/2005

Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a pleasure for me to be with you this evening for this official opening of FEE’s new premises here in the Avenue d’Auderghem. FEE is, of course, a long-standing and trusted interlocutor of the Commission, as the representative of the accountancy profession in Europe. Your new offices are just opposite the Berlaymont, so FEE will be able to keep an even closer watch on the Commission, and vice versa, in the future! The title of my speech is “IFRS
CBOT Stock Begins Trading On The New York Stock Exchange

Date 19/10/2005

Last night, the initial public offering of 3,191,489 shares of Class A common stock of CBOT Holdings (NYSE: BOT) was priced at $54.00 per share. An archived videoclip of the broadcast of CBOT Chairman Charles Carey and President/CEO Bernard Dan ringing the opening bell at the NYSE to commemorate the first trade of our common stock on the NYSE will be available later in the day.
Broker JB Drax Honoré Chooses GL TRADE’s UBIX Brokerage And Billing System To Process Their Derivatives Activity On Line - UBIX Will Be Used In Addition To GL CLEARVISION, The Automated Matching And Clearing System For Cash And Derivatives, Which JB Drax

Date 19/10/2005

GL TRADE, global provider of electronic trading, clearing and settlement solutions, today announces that French broker JB Drax Honoré has chosen the UBIX Brokerage System to manage their complex and growing trading activity. UBIX Brokerage System is a module of UBIX, dedicated to brokerage business and includes specific functionality (such as billing process management, brokerage fees calculation for clients and counterparties, …).
Boston Options Exchange Trading Volume Exceeds 600,000 Contracts, Setting A New Volume Record

Date 19/10/2005

BOX set a new single session trading volume record with 649,875 contracts, the first time trade volume has risen above 600,000 contracts in a single session. This record high volume marks the third time BOX has traded more than 500,000 contracts in one day and the second time BOX has done so in October. The previous record of 563,004 contracts was set on October 6, 2005.

Borsa Italiana: S&P/MIB Options/New Daily Record

Date 19/10/2005

The S&P/MIB index options today reached a new volume record of 32,744 contracts traded.
BaFin Did Not Ascertain Acting In Concert At Deutsche Börse

Date 19/10/2005

The fund companies around TCI (The Children´s Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP) did not coordinate their activities in a way that would have placed them under the legal obligation to submit a mandatory offer to the other shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG. This is the result of several months of investigations led by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht / BaFin).
ASIC And ASX Urge Directors To Notify Market Operators Of Shareholdings

Date 19/10/2005

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) today urged company directors to ensure they were complying with the requirement to notify their interests, or changes in their interests, to the market under the Listing Rules and the Corporations Act (the Act).
"Japan Street" At FIA Chicago Expo

Date 19/10/2005

Futures & Options 2005 is being held at the Chicago Hyatt Regency Hotel (151 E. Wacker Drive) from November 8 to 10. This event attracts over 4,500 people from more than 20 countries. Japanese broker companies and exchanges have been actively involved in the Expo and this year a total nine Japanese corporations including TOCOM will participate in the Expo constituting a “Japan Street”. The main event for the “Japan Street” is the stamp rally, and we will prepare wonderful gifts for the winners o
Thailand Future Exchange’s International Roadshow Expands Foreign Investor Base

Date 18/10/2005

The Thailand Futures Exchange Pcl. (TFEX) received satisfactory feedback on, and strong interest in, the SET50 Index Futures from Singapore investors participating in its roadshow.