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Statement By Commissioner Michel Barnier Following The Agreement In Trilogue Of New European Rules To Regulate Credit Rating Agencies

Date 28/11/2012

I welcome the important agreement reached today on additional rules for credit rating agencies (CRAs) which aim to reduce the over-reliance on ratings, eradicate conflicts of interest, and establish a civil liability regime. Credit rating agencies will have to be more transparent when rating sovereign states, respect timing rules on sovereign ratings and justify the timing of publication of unsolicited ratings of sovereign debt. They will have to follow stricter rules which will make them more accountable for mistakes in case of negligence or intent. This matters because ratings have a direct impact on the financial markets and the wider economy and thus on the prosperity of European citizens.

Challenges Facing Financial Integration And Financial Stability - Speech By Benoît Cœuré, Member Of The Executive Board Of The ECB, 3rd Pan-Asian Regulatory Summit Organised By Thomson Reuters, Hong Kong, 28 November 2012

Date 28/11/2012

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great pleasure to be here in Hong Kong and I would like to take the opportunity to thank Thomson Reuters for having invited me to speak at the 3rd Pan-Asian Regulatory Summit.

Deutsche Börse Completes Planned Changes In Leadership Structure - Hauke Stars Takes Over IT Division And Market Data Business - Xetra And Eurex Under Common Management Already From 1 January - New Head Of Group Strategy

Date 28/11/2012

Effective 1 December 2012, Ms Hauke Stars (45) will as previously announced assume responsibility for the newly-structured IT division of Deutsche Börse AG. At the same time Deutsche Börse's entire market data business as well as selected external IT services will be brought together into this area of responsibility and led by the IT engineer.

Deal On Stricter EU Rules For Sovereign Debt Ratings

Date 28/11/2012

Credit rating agencies will have to obey additional rules on sovereign debt ratings, including three set dates per year for issuing them, under a deal agreed by Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Tuesday. Cross-ownership of agencies and the entities that they rate will be limited to prevent conflicts of interest and agency mergers will be restricted to boost competition.

London Stock Exchange: Megafon Raises $1.7bn In London’s Largest Telecoms Capital Raising For More Than A Decade - Money Raised By Russian Companies Tops $8.2bn In 2012 - Megafon CEO Ivan Tavrin Opens UK Trading

Date 28/11/2012

London Stock Exchange today welcomes MegaFon, one of Russia’s largest telecommunications businesses, to its Main Market. The company opened trading in London in a ceremony to mark the start of conditional dealing in its Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), ahead of its listing on 3 December.

NYSE Liffe Welcomes SinoPac Futures As A New Member

Date 28/11/2012

NYSE Liffe, the European based global derivatives division of NYSE Euronext,  today announced that SinoPac Futures Corporation (“SinoPac  Futures”), a leading futures and options brokerage in Taiwan, has become  a member of NYSE Liffe’s London and Paris markets.

Membership of NYSE Liffe will enable customers of  SinoPac Futures to access the European capital markets through  the Exchange’s liquid European derivatives contracts. Customers of SinoPac Futures will also have the ability to  access the Exchange’s market leading technology services, such as colocation and  order routing (through SinoPac Futures).

Four New iShares ETFs Launched On Xetra - ETFs Based On Government And Corporate Bonds And On Stock Corporations Based In Mexico

Date 28/11/2012

Three new bond index ETFs and one new equity index ETF issued by iShares have been tradable in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment since Wednesday.

Rainer Riess To Leave Deutsche Börse Group

Date 28/11/2012

Rainer Riess (46), Managing Director of Deutsche Börse AG and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, will leave Deutsche Börse Group, effective 30 June 2013, having worked for the Group for 24 years.

JSE-Listed Companies Make Strides In Sustainable Business Practices - JSE’s 2012 SRI Index Annual Review Results

Date 28/11/2012

Over 70% of companies assessed on behalf of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) fulfil the base requirements to become a constituent of the exchange’s 2012 Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index. That is an achievement to be welcomed by the growing number of shareholders asking listed companies to improve disclosure about broad sustainability issues, says the JSE’s SRI Index head, Corli le Roux.

DGCX Records Over 1 Million Contracts In October

Date 28/11/2012

• DGCX contracts emerge as valuable hedging and price-reference tools for business communities around the world
• More than 18.6 million contracts traded since inception, valued at US 803 billion
• Exchange embarks on global push to widen market for products