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Nymex Tops The $1 Billion Mark In Over-The-Counter Clearing Activity

Date 22/10/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it has cleared more than $1.1 billion worth of over-the-counter (OTC) deals in natural gas and electricity, equivalent to 294 trillion British thermal units of natural gas and 118,400 megawatt hours of electricity.
London Stock Exchange Implements Teradata Active Data Warehouse To Provide Real-Time Market Intelligence Services And Exploit Historical Data

Date 22/10/2002

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), today announced that London Stock Exchange plc will deploy a Teradata real-time data warehouse as part of its plans to increase the depth and speed of the financial market intelligence services it delivers. The Teradata solution will be implemented for the exchange by Accenture, the exchange's system integration partner.
Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority: Offshore Financial Centres To Continue To Enhance Competitiveness

Date 22/10/2002

Offshore financial centres are urged to continue to enhance competitiveness in managing present challenges facing the industry.
Kansas City Board Of Trade Sets New Exchange Annual Volume Record

Date 22/10/2002

Trading activity Monday at the Kansas City Board of Trade pushed 2002 exchange year-to-date trading volume past the previous annual record, capitalizing on a year of active volume in wheat futures and wheat options trading. Year-to-date volume at the KCBT through Monday was 2,664,746 contracts, surpassing the previous annual record of 2,664,669 contracts set in 2000. More than two months remain for the exchange to build on the new annual record.
Jukka Ruuska, President And CEO Of HEX Group: Competitive Advantage Through Regulation And Taxation

Date 22/10/2002

Highlights of Mr. Jukka Ruuska´s speech at the 90th Anniversary seminar of Helsinki Exchanges: There has been a securities exchange in Finland for almost the entire 20th century. The Helsinki Stock Exchange established in 1912, however, was quite a different from the present Helsinki Exchanges of the HEX Group. The methods and procedures of operation remained unchanged for a long time until the 1980s saw the start of a strategic revolution that turned a local operator of common functions

Iceland Stock Exchange Responds To Criticism Regarding Its Surveillance Function Concerning Annual Accounts And Interim Statements

Date 22/10/2002

Aggressive Accounting Discussions on accounting practices have been the centre of considerable media attention recently. And not without good reason, in view of what has been happening in this field, not least in the US. This focus on accounting practices should be welcomed, since there is a great deal at stake for the public, corporations and even the economy in general. The Icelandic daily Morgunbladid deserves special mention here, as the paper has provided detailed and inform
iBoxx: Liquid Indices For The European Bond Market Start On October 23

Date 22/10/2002

The Liquid Indices for European fixed-income securities will be launched on October 23, the European index provider iBoxx Ltd. announced on Tuesay. As previously reported, the new indices cover highly liquid euro-denominated bonds. The Liquid Indices will initially comprise 22 indices on corporate bonds, government bonds and sub-sovereigns. Maturity indices will be calculated for government bonds, and corporate bonds will have rating and sector subindices.
CME, Korea Futures Exchange Agree To Pursue Joint Initiatives

Date 22/10/2002

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the Korea Futures Exchange (KOFEX) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue joint business development initiatives in derivatives products. Under the agreement, the exchanges will discuss a variety of issues, including cooperation related to product development and information sharing.
CME Publishes Clearing Codes For OneChicago Products

Date 22/10/2002

The CME Contract Specifications pages on the CME's Web site have been updated to reflect the following: CME publishes Clearing Codes for OneChicago products. This website page lists (a)the generic specifications for both the equities and narrow-based indices on which OneChicago will list futures, (b) the ticker code for the equities, (c) the full up-to-six-byte OneChicago product symbol for the futures, and (d) the two-byte CME clearing code for the futures, use in the SPAN® file, T
CFTC'S Division Of Enforcement Names Three New Deputy Directors

Date 22/10/2002

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Division of Enforcement today announced the appointment of three new Deputy Directors.