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London Stock Exchange Announces Improvements To International Order Book

Date 13/01/2014

• Moves to bring Global Depositary Receipt market in line with SETS order book
• Underlines rapid development and growing international popularity of International Order Book

Traiana Selects Duco For Service To Reconcile Reference Data Ahead Of Deadline For Mandatory SEF Trading

Date 13/01/2014

Traiana, the leading provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, announces today that it has launched a new service to reconcile client reference data ahead of the introduction of mandatory electronic trading of swaps on swap execution facilities (SEFs). The new service, using technology provided by Duco, reconciles reference data from disparate sources provided by CCPs, SEFs, futures commission merchants (FCMs), buy-side firms and swap data repositories.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission Bans Poon Ming Pui For 10 Months

Date 13/01/2014

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Poon Ming Pui from re-entering the industry for 10 months from 9 January 2014 to 8 November 2014.

Deutsche Börse Commodities: Xetra-Gold Again The ETC With The Highest Turnover On Xetra In 2013 - Interest In Exchange-Traded Gold Products Remains High

Date 13/01/2014

Xetra-Gold from Deutsche Börse Commodities GmbH remains by far the most traded ETC on Xetra, as in previous years. Trading volume was around €1.7 billion in 2013. Xetra-Gold (DE000A0S9GB0) alone thus accounted for a good 28% of all ETC trading. db Physical Gold Euro Hedged ETC (DE000A1EK0G3) took second place and db Physical Gold ETC (EUR) (DE000A1E0HR8) took third. This means that the three top ETCs in 2013 were all gold products – just like in the previous year.

Dalian Commodity Exchange “Handheld Options” App Goes On Line

Date 13/01/2014

On January 10, via its official Wechat subscription account “Dalian Commodity Exchange”, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) released the news that it has put the mobile phone App of “Handheld Options” into operation on line. With the main functions of the game of simulated trading and the ABC of options, the App put online serves as one of the diversified marketing instruments for the cultivation of the options market.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Releases “Management Measures On Open-End Fund Business”

Date 13/01/2014

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has recently released the “SSE Management Measures on Open-end Fund Business” (the “Measures” for short), in order to support the innovative development of the fund market and better serve all participants in the fund market. The “Measures” was implemented as of the issuance day, and the “SSE Rules (Trial) on Business Lines for Subscription, Purchase, and Redemption of Open-end Funds” (Shang Zheng Zhai Zi [2005] No. 29) issued previously was abolished at the same time.

Tehran Stock Exchange Weekly Digest - 8 January 2014

Date 12/01/2014

TSE’s broad index lost 0.12% in the week ended 8 January.

Nigeria Stock Exchange: Stock Market Report For January 10, 2014

Date 11/01/2014

A turnover of 1.722 billion shares worth N22.443 billion in 29,600 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of The Exchange in contrast to a total of 2 billion shares valued at N15.907 billion that exchanged hands last week in 17,378 deals.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Quarterly Index Reviews

Date 11/01/2014

S&P Dow Jones Indices Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes as a result of the quarterly S&P/TSX Preferred Share Index and S&P/TSX Venture Select Index Reviews. These changes will be effective at the open on Monday, January 20, 2014.

SIFMA Statement On SEC Muni Advisor Guidance

Date 11/01/2014

SIFMA today issued the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., SIFMA president and CEO, in response to the Interpretive Guidance on Municipal Advisor Registration Rules released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC):

“SIFMA welcomes the SEC’s interpretive guidance as it clarifies many of the matters addressed therein regarding the final Municipal Advisor Rule. We continue to encourage the SEC to delay the January 13 effective date of the Rule to give the industry sufficient time to incorporate this guidance into compliance programs and employee training as well as to give the industry additional time to identify accounts of municipal entities and obligated persons that contain proceeds of municipal securities."