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Average Daily Volume Of 11 Million Contracts At Eurex Group In June

Date 01/07/2015

Statement At Open Meeting On Listing Standards For Clawing Back Erroneously Awarded Executive Compensation, SEC Chair Mary Jo White, July 1, 2015

Date 01/07/2015

Good morning.  This is an open meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 2015 under the Government in the Sunshine Act.  The Commission today will consider a recommendation from the Division of Corporation Finance for a rule proposal to implement the mandate of Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act to require national securities exchanges and associations to adopt listing standards for companies to recover incentive compensation erroneously awarded to executive officers.

Turnover At Deutsche Börse’s Cash Markets At 149.3 Billion Euros In June

Date 01/07/2015

Order book turnover on Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange across all asset classes stood at €149.3 billion in June (June 2014: €93.7 billion).

Making Executive Compensation More Accountable – To Keep It, It Should Be Earned, SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, July 1, 2015

Date 01/07/2015

When it comes to compensation, Americans believe you should earn your money.  They also believe, just as strongly, that you should not keep what you did not earn.  It’s fundamental to our values.  However, when companies have to restate their financial statements because they violated applicable reporting requirements, their executives may not be required to reimburse any incentive-based compensation that was erroneously paid.  In other words, they get to keep what they never should have received in the first place.

BM&FBOVESPA Presents The Results Of The Closed Hearing For The Corporate Governance Program For State-Run Companies - At The Event BM&FBOVESPA Also Presented The Schedule To Enhance Special Listing Segments

Date 01/07/2015

On Tuesday morning BM&FBOVESPA presented federal, state and market bodies, and experts, with the results of the closed hearing for the Corporate Governance Program for State-Run Companies. Taking part in the event were BM&FBOVESPA CEO Edemir Pinto; Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) chairman Leonardo Pereira; and several capital market representatives.

SEC Charges Hedge Fund Advisory Firm With Conducting Fraudulent Fund Valuation Scheme

Date 01/07/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Greenwich, Conn.-based investment advisory firm and its two owners with fraudulently inflating the prices of securities in hedge fund portfolios they managed.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For Bonds And Futures

Date 01/07/2015

The following risk parameters will be applied starting from 6 July, 2015:

Bonds: attachment.

Futures: attachment.

Eurogroup To Discuss Greece’s State Of Play

Date 01/07/2015

The Greek government yesterday presented a last-minute proposal for a two-year agreement with the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) so as to fully cover its financing needs, combined with debt restructuring. "From the first we made clear that the decision to call a referendum was not the end but the continuation of a negotiation seeking better terms for the Greek people," an announcement from the office of the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said, adding that the Greek government will strive for a viable agreement within the euro up to the very end. The PM’s appeal however was rejected by eurozone finance ministers, hours before the existing bailout package expired at midnight.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For Securities

Date 01/07/2015

The following risk parameters for the securities MTSS, HYDR, VTBR, NVTK, EONR, URKA will be changed:

EU Structural Financial Indicators: 2014

Date 01/07/2015

• Decline in number of bank branches continues in most EU countries
• Number of bank employees down by about 74,000 to around 2.8 million
• Share of assets of five largest institutions at national level varies from 32% to 94%