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3 years SWX New Market: Realignment Of Segmentation On The SWX Swiss Exchange

Date 24/07/2002

The SWX New Market was created three years ago in response to the demand from young enterprises and the financial industry for a means of providing innovative companies with access to the capital market. Venture capital companies were able to use this platform to place their holdings among the investing public, and underwriting banks had the opportunity to conduct their IPO transactions in Switzerland. This had a two-pronged effect: on one hand, Swiss companies found it unnecessary to migrate to
virt-x: Interim Results For The Six Months To 30 June 2002

Date 23/07/2002

virt-x plc, the operator of the virt-x pan-European blue chip exchange, announced today its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2002.
Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange: Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 29 July 2002

Date 23/07/2002

TIFFE announced that trading for all contracts starts at 8:45am(JST) on 29 July 2002, responding to the release of a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 23/07/2002

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index: Effective after the close on Tuesday, July 23, 2002, Idaho Consolidated Metals Corp. (TSXVN:IDO) will change its name to Beartooth Platinum Corporation (TSXVN: BTP). The new CUSIP number is 074012 10 5.There is no consolidation of capital.
Russian Trading System Bonds: Weekly Results

Date 23/07/2002

From July 15, 2002, to July 19, 2002, the trading volume of RTS Bonds system - the system that facilitates trading of corporate, government, municipal bonds and Eurobonds - fell to 998 thousand dollars from 197.8 million dollars the week before.

Partnership Council Approves Priorities For Russian Trading System Activities In 2002-2003

Date 23/07/2002

On June 27th, 2002, the Council of Partnership "The RTS Stock Exchange" unanimously approved the Directions for non-for-profit Partnership "The RTS Stock Exchange" activities in the next year (July 1, 2002, through July 1, 2003).
London Stock Exchange To Explore Ways Of Reducing Failed Cross-Border Trades

Date 23/07/2002

The London Stock Exchange today announced that it is looking at ways to reduce the number of failed cross-border trades, which are estimated to cost the global securities industry around £2.2 billion every year.
Euronext: Seven Companies To Join The NextEconomy And NextPrime Market Segments

Date 23/07/2002

NextPrime and NextEconomy, the market segments launched on 2 January 2002, will welcome 7 additional companies on 29 July. This will raise the total to 256 companies, representing almost one quarter of all domestic listed companies on Euronext Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris regulated markets.
CME's GLOBEX® Electronic Trading Volume Posts New Record As E-mini™ S&P 500 Surpasses 900,000 Mark

Date 23/07/2002

Trading volume on GLOBEX®, the electronic trading platform of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), set a new single-day volume record yesterday, July 22, with 1,333,476 contracts traded. This record surpasses the previous one set on July 16 at 1,258,514 contracts.
Clearnet's Bond And Repo Clearing Service Comes Of Age

Date 23/07/2002

Clearnet, the pan-European Clearing House, announces significant new developments and business turnover in its rapidly expanding bond and repo clearing services.