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Press Conference By Shozaburo Jimi, Japan's Minister For Financial Services - Tuesday, May 29, 2012, from 9:34 A.M. To 9:49 A.M.

Date 05/06/2012

[Opening Remarks by Minister Jimi]

On May 27, Sunday, I attended an ordinary general meeting of Zentoku (national association of postmasters), which was held in Sapporo, Hokkaido. As has been reported by various mass media, Prime Minister Noda attended this meeting, becoming the first sitting prime minister to do so. Since he took office on September 2, 2011, the prime minister has consistently been calling for an early enactment of the postal bill in the Diet and elsewhere. As a result of efforts made by the Democratic Party of Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito, the bill to amend the Postal Service Privatization Act was passed on April 27 and promulgated on May 8, as you know.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report - May 2012

Date 05/06/2012

Click here to download ASX's compliance monthly activity report for May 2012.

"The Next Phase In Islamic Finance" - Opening Address By Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority Of Singapore At The 3rd Annual World Islamic Banking Conference: Asia Summit

Date 05/06/2012

Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, President, Islamic Development Bank,
Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
And to all our foreign guests, a warm welcome to Singapore.

An Increasingly Difficult Conjuncture

We are meeting here for the 3rd Annual World Islamic Banking Conference Asia Summit, at a time of increasing stress in the global economy and financial system. 

Shenzhen Stock Exchange: Training Session Held To Educate Issuers On Good Corporate Behavior

Date 05/06/2012

Shenzhen Stock Exchange recently held the second training session in Beijing for ChiNext-listed companies to promote compliance and development. A total of 161 board chairmen and senior executives of 83 ChiNext-listed companies located in northern and northeastern regions of China attended the training programme

TMX Group – Consolidated Trading Statistics May 2012: Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Montreal Exchange, Natural Gas Exchange - Montreal Exchange Achieves Monthly Trading Volume Record

Date 04/06/2012

TMX Group Inc. today announced May 2012 trading statistics for its diversified group of exchanges – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montreal Exchange (MX) and Natural Gas Exchange (NGX), as well as TMX Select, TMX Group's alternative trading system.

SEC Advisory Committee On Small And Emerging Companies To Meet On June 8

Date 04/06/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies will meet on Friday, June 8, beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern time. The discussion is expected to include the recently enacted JOBS Act, market structure issues, and scaling of disclosure and corporate governance rules for smaller public companies.

Speech By Benoît Cœuré, Member Of The Executive Board Of The European Central Bank, Festival Dell’Economia, Trento, 1 June 2012

Date 04/06/2012

Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to thank Tito Boeri and Lucrezia Reichlin for their invitation to this sharing of views on how to restore growth in the euro area.

SEC Charges Company Officers And Penny Stock Promoters In Kickback And Market Manipulation Schemes

Date 04/06/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged several penny stock companies and their officers as well as three penny stock promoters involved in various stock schemes in which bribes and kickbacks were paid to hype microcap stocks and illegally generate stock sales.

FINRA Hearing Panel Fines Brookstone Securities $1 Million For Fraudulent Sales Of CMOs To Elderly - Full Restitution Of Over $1.6 Million Ordered To Customers - Firm's CEO And Broker Barred - Former Compliance Officer Barred As Principal

Date 04/06/2012

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that a FINRA hearing panel ruled that Brookstone Securities of Lakeland, FL, and the firm's Owner/CEO Antony Turbeville and one of the firm's brokers, Christopher Kline, made fraudulent sales of collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) to unsophisticated, elderly and retired investors. The panel fined Brookstone $1 million and ordered it to pay restitution of more than $1.6 million to customers, with $440,600 of that amount imposed jointly and severally with Turbeville, and the remaining $1,179,500 imposed jointly and severally with Kline.

SunGard’s Fox River Execution Solutions Develops “Dollar Certain” Algorithm For US Equity Trading

Date 04/06/2012

SunGard’s Fox River has enhanced its algorithm suite with a U.S. equity “dollar certain” algorithm, which is used when traders want to execute a trade in dollars rather than shares. This algorithm helps eliminate the manual management of dollar certain trades, helping traders avoid calculation errors and reduce operational risk.