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International Securities Exchange Was The Largest US Equity Options Exchange In March - Volume Gains Fueled By Trading System Innovations

Date 02/04/2003

For the second consecutive month, the International Securities Exchange (ISE) was the largest US equity options exchange.
GL TRADE Appoints CEO And Sales Director For London And Northern Europe

Date 02/04/2003

GL TRADE, leading provider of financial data feed, clearing and trading solutions, today announces the appointment of Patrick Tessier as the new CEO and Giles Newman as the new Sales Director of its London and Northern Europe business unit (GL TRADE LNE).
FTSE All-World Review - March 2003 Issue Now Available

Date 02/04/2003

The March 2003 issue of the FTSE All-World Review is now available in PDF format from the website at http://www.ftseall-world.com.
Corporate Governance Leaders Will Meet In Toronto In June, Says TSX CEO Stymiest

Date 02/04/2003

"I don't see Canada as being disadvantaged if we don't follow Sarbanes Oxley," said TSX Group CEO Barbara Stymiest in a speech today to the Economic Club of Toronto. Ms. Stymiest said there must be better understanding of how much a competitive advantage Canada already enjoys on corporate governance.
CESR's First Initiative Towards More Robust Enforcement Of Financial Information In Europe

Date 02/04/2003

During the seventh meeting of CESR, held in Paris on 21 March 2003, the first CESR standard on Financial Information: Enforcement of standards on financial information in Europe (Ref.: CESR/03- 073) was approved. The standard is being published today along with a feedback statement summarising the responses received during the consultation process (Ref.: CESR/03-074).

CBOT®Good Friday, Easter Sunday Holiday Schedule

Date 02/04/2003

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) has established the following Good Friday/Easter Sunday holiday trading schedule: Thursday, April 17: Open auction: Financial* contracts close at 12:00 noon. All other open auction contracts (Agricultural and Stock Index) close at their normal times.
CBOT<SUP><SMALL>®</SUP></SMALL>Fed Funds Options Contract Surpasses Volume And Open Interest Benchmarks

Date 02/04/2003

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that the CBOT's Fed Funds options contract, launched March 14, 2003, is the fastest growing options contract in the history of the CBOT with total volume since inception at 61,999, surpassing the CBOT's U.S. Treasury Bond options contract, which traded 43,059 in the weeks following its launch on October 1, 1982. Open interest in the Fed Funds options contract reached 47,639 on March 31, 2003.
CBOT March Volume At 34,691,534, Up 41.9% From March 2002

Date 02/04/2003

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced trading volume of 34,691,534 contracts for March 2003, up 41.9% from March 2002 and up 8.3% from February 2003. Volume for the first quarter of 2003 at 95,150,584 is up 33.6% from the same period in 2002.
BrokerTec Futures Exchange March Volume Is Up Nearly 130 Percent Over The Same Period Last Year

Date 02/04/2003

BrokerTec Futures Exchange (BTEX), the nation's only fully-electronic fixed income futures exchange, announced today that March's monthly volume was up nearly 130 percent over the same period last year - 182,950 contracts traded in March 2003 compared to 79,783 contracts traded in March 2002. In addition, March's turnover was 27.7 percent higher than February 2003, when 143,275 contracts were traded. Volume year-to-date (531,621 contracts traded) increased 80.21 percent over the first three
Australia's Financial Services Workforce The Most Skilled In The Asia-Pacific

Date 02/04/2003

A new publication released today by Axiss Australia shows that Australia offers a highly skilled, multilingual and low-cost workforce for financial services that cannot be matched elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region.