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  • CBOT® Nominating Committee Announces Slate For 2003 Election

    Date 04/02/2003

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that the exchange's Nominating Committee has slated nine candidates to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors, as Directors, and as members of the Nominating Committee. The CBOT annual election is scheduled for March 12, 2003.

  • BrokerTec Futures Exchange Reduces Minimum Tick Size On Five-Year U.S. Treasury Note Contract Change To Create Tighter Spreads, More Efficient Market

    Date 04/02/2003

    In a move that will create an even tighter, more liquid and competitive marketplace, BrokerTec Futures Exchange (BTEX), the nation's only fully-electronic fixed income futures exchange, announced today that a decrease in the minimum tick size on the five-year Treasury note contract will be implemented as of Friday, February 14, 2003. At that time, the minimum tick size will be lowered from 1/2 of 1/32nd of a point (or US$ 15.625 rounded up to the nearest 1 cent per contract) to 1/4 of 1/32nd

  • UK's Financial Services Authority To Decide On The Future Of Professional Indemnity Insurance

    Date 03/02/2003

    The FSA has today published a consultation paper CP169: Professional Indemnity Insurance for personal investment firms- aimed at formalising the short-term modification made to its rules in November 2002. The modification was made in response to difficulties being experienced by some IFAs in obtaining compliant cover and was designed to increase availability in the PII market for this sector. In determining what changes could be made to pol

  • UK's Financial Services Authority Required: Minimum Margin: Letter To CEOs Of Life Insurance Firms

    Date 03/02/2003

    The FSA has sent this letter to all the CEOs of life insurance companies. Dear Chief Executive The FSA made it clear earlier this week that it was monitoring closely the position of the life insurance industry in the light of recent sharp falls in equity prices. Since then markets have stabilised a little but the uncertain outlook suggests that prices may remain volatile throughout the world.

  • TSX Statistics - January 2003

    Date 03/02/2003

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  • Treasury, OFHEO And SEC Release Joint Report On Mortgage-Backed Securities Markets

    Date 03/02/2003

    The Department of the Treasury, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today released a joint staff report on disclosure practices in the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) markets.

  • The International Securities Exchange Becomes Second-Largest US Options Exchange - Posts Strong Trading Volume, Market Share Gains

    Date 03/02/2003

    The International Securities Exchange (ISE) experienced significant trading volume growth in January, making it the second largest of the five US options exchanges in terms of overall volume.

  • SWX: Successful Takeover Offer For virt-x

    Date 03/02/2003

    SWX Holding AG has announced that, as at 31 January 2003, the "first closing day", it had received a total of 156.33 million worth of tendered virt-x shares. That amount corresponds to 91.5 per cent of the shares involved in the tender offer, and exceeds the threshold of 90 per cent required for an annulment. The offer of 12.5 pence per virt-x share will continue until further notice. In total, SWX Holding AG now controls 94.8% of the equity capital and voting rights of virt-x. As previously ind

  • Stockholmsbörsen: Monthly Statistics January 2003

    Date 03/02/2003

    Volume record in derivatives trading in January. Average daily volume amounted to 329 805 contracts per day in January (earlier record October 2002: 328 467).

  • Stock Exchange Of Thailand: Settrade Unveils Plan To Attract More Internet Investors

    Date 03/02/2003

    Settrade has mapped out measures to increase the number of investors making their transactions through the Internet by developing the quality of both its hardware and software. It plans to launch "Day Trade Lite", a new program to carry out transactions through the Internet, as well as to boost its back-up system, in conjunction with five major banks, Siam Commercial Bank, Krung Thai Bank, Bank of Asia, Thai Farmers Bank, and Bank of Ayudhaya. Internet investors can make their payments through

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