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Dubai Financial Market Announces The results Of Its Board Of Directors Meeting Held On 08 May 2013

Date 09/05/2013

The Board of Directors' of Dubai Financial Market PJSC held ameeting on Wednesday 8/5/2013, at 2:00 PM at Borse Dubai and approved the following:

MTS To Launch Bond Platform For U.S. Institutional Investors, Forms Broker-Dealer, Appoints U.S. CEO

Date 09/05/2013

• Platform will initially offer European and U.S. government, agency, mortgage, corporate and covered bond markets
• Mark Monahan appointed as chief executive of MTS Markets International Inc
• MTS Markets International Inc approved as a FINRA-regulated broker-dealer
• New platform expected to go live in Q4 2013

Dubai Financial Market Company Reports Net Profit Of AED 27 Million In Q1-2013

Date 09/05/2013

• Abdul Jalil Yousuf Darwish: DFM is actively endeavor to propel (Dubai the Capital of Islamic Economy) and the global Sukuk center initiative
• Essa Abdul Fattah Kazim: DFM is the best performing exchange leading exchange globally year to date and attracted AED 500 Million of foreign investment in-flows in Q1

ASIC's Outlook ... The Road Ahead - A Speech By Greg Medcraft, Chairman, Australian Securities And Investments Commission, Australian Shareholders’ Association (ASA) Making A Difference Conference 2013, 8 May 2013

Date 09/05/2013

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Tokyo Stock Exchange ETF/ETN Monthly Report For April 2013

Date 09/05/2013

Monthly trading value surged past previous market record with over 50% monthly gain!

• The ETF/ETN market remained robust in April with monthly trading value surging past the record since market launch to 1,290 billion yen. Intraday value also surpassed the 100 billion yen mark for the first time, reaching 124.1 billion yen on April 5.
• Huge fluctuations in gold prices this month led to a large increase in the trading of ETF tracking the metal. "SPDR® Gold Shares (1326)," "Gold-Price-Linked Exchange Traded Fund (1328)," and "Japan Physical Gold ETF (1540)" showed monthly gains of 403%, 271%, and 145% respectively.
• ETFs tracking the TOPIX-17 series ranked among the top gainers by change in trading value, and there is a trend toward trading by industrial sectors.

ASIC Makes New Rules For ASX 24 Market

Date 09/05/2013

ASIC has made new market integrity rules for the Australian Securities Exchange Limited derivatives market (ASX 24).

Tokyo Commodity Exchange Supports Global Rubber Conference 2013

Date 09/05/2013

TOCOM will take part in the Global Rubber Conference 2013, which will be held from September 24th to 26th 2013 at Novotel, Palembang City, Indonesia, as one of the sponsors. 

The Need For Robust SEC Oversight Of SROs By SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar

Date 09/05/2013

The staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission” or “SEC”) is planning to hold an SRO Outreach Conference (the “Conference”) this month. In anticipation of the Conference, I would like to address the challenges faced by self-regulatory organizations (“SROs”) as a result of the significant changes that the securities markets have undergone in the last decade, and the need for robust Commission oversight of SRO activities to enhance investor protection, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.

CFTC Charges Ron Eibschutz With Aiding And Abetting Disclosures Of Material Nonpublic Information About Customer Trades In Its Case Against The CME Group’s New York Mercantile Exchange And Two Former Employees

Date 08/05/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed an amended Complaint in its pending enforcement action, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. William Byrnes, et al. (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 13 CIV 1174), naming Ron Eibschutz as a Defendant in its ongoing case against the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME NYMEX), and two former CME NYMEX employees, William Byrnes and Christopher Curtin. (See CFTC Press Release 6519-13, February 21, 2013.)

FINRA Fines Three Firms $900,000 For Inadequate Anti-Money Laundering Programs - Four Firm Executives Fined And Suspended

Date 08/05/2013

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined three firms a total of $900,000 for failing to establish and implement adequate anti-money laundering (AML) programs and other supervisory systems to detect suspicious transactions. FINRA also fined and suspended four executives involved. FINRA imposed the following sanctions.