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  • Financial Services: European Commission Sets Up Expert Group On Legal Certainty Issues In Clearing And Settlement

    Date 01/02/2005

    The European Commission’s EU Clearing and Settlement: Legal Certainty Group has held its first meeting in Brussels on 31st January. The Group will analyse issues of legal uncertainty relating to the integration of EU securities clearing and settlement systems, and advise the Commission accordingly. The Group is chaired by the Commission. It is composed of around 30 legal experts drawn from academia, the public and the private sectors, whose membership is personal, and no

  • Eurex Turns Over More Than 95 Million Contracts In January - Record Turnover For Euro-Bund-Future And Option On The Euro-Bund-Future

    Date 01/02/2005

    The international derivatives exchange Eurex has enjoyed a positive start to 2005. The world’s largest derivatives exchange turned over 95.2 million contracts in January, with trading volume up by over 18 percent on the previous month, and more than 4 percent year on year. Approximately 4.5 million contracts per day were traded and settled in January. Open interest on Eurex, which is the number of open positions, continued to grow – totaling around 69 million contracts at the end of the month, a

  • CME To Launch Electronic European-Style Euro FX And Japanese Yen Options - New FX Options Contracts To Commence Side-By-Side Trading In April

    Date 01/02/2005

    CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange and the largest regulated marketplace for foreign exchange (FX), today announced it will launch new Euro FX and Japanese yen options contracts, with European-style expiration, on its electronic CME® Globex® platform in April. CME already offers these contracts with American-style expiration via open outcry and during a limited CME Globex trading period. The new electronically traded FX options contracts, which will be available nearly 24 hours a day, will

  • Clearstream's Vestima+ Attracts BBVA As Key New Customer

    Date 01/02/2005

    Clearstream announced that Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has signed up to implement the innovative new investment service called Vestima+. BBVA is Spain's biggest bank and has been a strong proponent of the open architecture model that is a key element of Clearstream's new service. Clearstream launched the Vestima+ service as planned on 24 January 2005.

  • Cinnober Welcomes Catella As Shareholder

    Date 01/02/2005

    The financial group Catella has acquired 12.8 percent of the privately held technology company Cinnober. Catella acquired already existing shares from shareholders of Cinnober. 120 different shareholders of whom a large part is employees at Cinnober own the remaining shares.