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The Most Recent Addition To Dubai Financial Market’s Leading Efforts Regionally: Dubai Financial Market Inaugurates Its Educational Trading Floor At The American University In The Emirates

Date 11/12/2013

• Essa Kazim: the decision to establish this floor stems from the overwhelming success achieved by educational trading floors inaugurated at Dubai Men’s College and Sharjah University
• MoU between DFM and AUE with the aim to develop programs and mechanism that enhance students’ knowledge of the financial market

NASDAQ OMX Nordic Foundation Supports University Of Helsinki

Date 11/12/2013

The University of Helsinki announced last November an open position for a new professorship in Securities Market Law. The professorship is unique from a Nordic perspective as it combines the more traditional disciplines of company, finance, market, criminal and civil laws into a new independent discipline. The aim of this new role is to raise awareness of the Finnish, Nordic and European securities market legislation. The new professorship will also provide an opportunity to emphasize the Nordic approach in this field of law, including corporate governance issues.

Mike Rhoden Joins b-next’s London Office To Continue UK Expansion In Market Surveillance solutions

Date 11/12/2013

b-next, a specialist provider of Market Abuse Surveillance, Insider Dealing and Compliance software solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Rhoden as Product Consultant. Mike will bolster the UK operation and help to further expand b-next’s international client base.

Tullett Prebon Named Fixed Income Broker Of the Year By Futures And Options World (FOW)

Date 11/12/2013

Tullett Prebon, one of the world's leading interdealer brokers (IDB), has been named Fixed Income Derivatives broker of the year in the Futures and Options World Awards.

RTS Realtime Systems Receives FOW Data Centre Of The Year Award

Date 11/12/2013

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading global trading solutions provider, announced that the firm last night received the Data Centre of the Year Award for 2013 at the annual FOW International Awards banquet in London. The award, bestowed by Futures & Options World (FOW) Magazine during its Derivatives World London Conference, recognizes RTS’ successful Asia Pacific (APAC) Data Centre Hub, composed of the newest additions to its global data centre network in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Fines Lloyds Banking Group Firms A Total Of £28,038,844 For Serious Sales Incentive Failings

Date 11/12/2013

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Bank of Scotland plc, both part of Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), £28,038,844 for serious failings in their controls over sales incentive schemes. The failings affected branches of Lloyds TSB, Bank of Scotland and Halifax (which is part of Bank of Scotland).

CBOE Holdings Declares Special Dividend And Increases Stock Repurchase Authorization

Date 11/12/2013

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a special cash dividend of$0.50 per share of common stock.  The special dividend will be paid on January 17, 2014 to stockholders of record at the close of business on January 3, 2014.

NYSE Group Inc. Issues Short Interest Report

Date 11/12/2013

The NYSE Group, Inc. today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of November 29, 2013.

NASDAQ Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date November 29, 2013

Date 11/12/2013

At the end of the settlement date of November 29, 2013, short interest in 2,160 NASDAQ Global Market^SM securities totaled 7,254,911,005 shares compared with 7,229,628,380 shares in 2,164 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of November 15, 2013. The end-of-November short interest represents 4.40 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.80 days for the prior reporting period.

NYSE MKT Issues Short Interest Report

Date 11/12/2013

NYSE MKT (formerly known as NYSE Amex) today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of November 29, 2013.