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Wiener Börse Monthly Statistics - August 2012

Date 04/09/2012

Please click here to download the Wiener Börse Monthly statistics for August 2012.

Boerse Stuttgart: Investors Use Bonds Of Medium-Sized Enterprises To Diversify Their Portfolios - New Study Shows Investment Behaviour Of Private And Institutional Investors With Regard To Bonds Issued By Medium-Sized Companies

Date 04/09/2012

Private investors buying bonds issued by medium-sized companies make their own investing decisions. This was one of the core findings of the latest study by Boerse Stuttgart, which was conducted jointly with audit and consulting company Deloitte and Münster University of Applied Sciences. The study shows that the majority of participants have many years of financial market experience. Both private and institutional investors buy bonds issued by medium-sized companies to diversify their portfolios.

FESE Publishes The European Exchange Report 2011

Date 04/09/2012

The European Exchange Report represents a valuable source of integrated information on Europe’s exchange industry. It includes key figures of each operator of Regulated Markets which are summarised on a one page statement allowing for easy and transparent comparison of their key financial figures.

Charles Stanley & Co. Ltd Saves £100,000 With Advanced’s Unified Communications Solution - SIP Project Is Completed In Just Six Months And Will Continue To Save £100,000 Year-On-Year

Date 04/09/2012

Charles Stanley & Co. Ltd, one of the UK’s leading stockbroking and investment management groups, has saved more than £100,000 after investing in a Unified Communications Solution based on Systems Initiation Protocol (SIP). The company is anticipating continued savings of £100,000 year-on-year. The project, which went live in July 2012, was completed in just six months by Advanced 365 (Advanced), which specialises in providing managed services and converged voice and data networks.

Sungard’s Stream GMI Adds New Support For Products Traded On Brazil’s BM&FBOVESPA Exchange

Date 04/09/2012

SunGard has enhanced its Stream GMI clearing and accounting solution with the addition of automated processing of futures, options on futures and options on spots traded on BM&FBOVESPA (BVMF), the Brazilian securities, commodities and futures exchange. The extended coverage helps investment banks, brokerage houses and Futures Commission Merchants outside Brazil better access and trade BVMF’s cleared derivatives market and reduce their operational risk.

Sapient Global Markets Enables Investors To Meet European Central Bank Loan-Level Data Reporting Responsibilities - Combination Of Services Helps Clients Report Loan-Level Performance Data For European Structured Finance Assets

Date 04/09/2012

Sapient Global Markets, part of Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE), has today announced a new combination of services aimed specifically at helping companies meet requirements for communicating loan-level performance data to the European DataWarehouse under the European Central Bank’s (ECB) ABS loan-level initiative. Under the new initiative, loan-level performance data will eventually be required for any assets being used as collateral under the ECB Repurchase Agreements (Repo) System. The initiative starts with Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS), with other asset classes to follow.

Broadridge Trade Confirmation Matching Solution To Help Support Dodd-Frank Act Foreign Exchange Requirements

Date 04/09/2012

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced that functionality within its highly flexible, service-based trade confirmation solution, PROactiveTM Matching, has been enhanced to help financial organizations meet the new Dodd-Frank disclosure requirements for foreign exchange (FX) trade repositories.

ULLINK Partners With Azul Systems To Bring Further Innovation To Trading Solutions - In Comparative Messaging And Trading Platform Testing, Azul’s Zing JVM Reduces Worst Case Response Times By 7x-40x

Date 04/09/2012

Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today announced that it has formed a commercial partnership with ULLINK, a provider of low-latency connectivity and trading solutions for the global financial community. Under the agreement, ULLINK will offer Azul’s Zing JVM to new and existing clients to ensure the consistent delivery of high message throughput for its latency and throughput sensitive solutions. Zing is a 100% Java-compatible native Java Virtual Machine (JVM) specifically optimized for the Linux operating system. In comparative testing of the ULLINK messaging application, Zing reduced worst case response times by over 40x and similarly reduced 99 percentile response times by over 7x.

Trading On The WSE: August 2012

Date 04/09/2012

• Total trading in shares on the Main Market reached PLN 17.6 billion in August 2012 as compared to PLN 27.4 billion in August 2011.
• The incremental value of trading year to date in 2012 was over PLN 139.4 billion, a decrease of 25.8% year on year.
• The volume of trading in derivative instruments was 768 thousand as compared to 1.97 million in August 2011.1)
• The value of cash transactions in Treasury debt instruments on Treasury BondSpot Poland was PLN 43.7 billion (an increase of 51.2% year on year); the value of trading in January-August 2012 (PLN 314.2 billion) was PLN 7.7 billion higher than in all of 2011.
• Total spot and forward transactions on the WSE electricity markets reached 11 TWh in August 2012, an increase of 5.7% year on year.

IntercontinentalExchange To Transition Cleared Energy Swaps To Futures In October

Date 04/09/2012

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today announced that due to the strong preference of our customer base to trade futures as soon as practical, ICE has accelerated its plans to transition cleared OTC energy swaps and options to futures. The transition will now take effect on October 15, 2012.