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  • SIX Swiss Exchange Supports Abolition Of Control Premiums On Corporate Takeovers

    Date 12/06/2012

    SIX Swiss Exchange supports the Federal Council in its plan to abolish thecontrol premiums in cases of corporate takeovers. Control premiums violate the principle of equal treatment and transparency under stock exchange legislation and are for this reason contrary to the protection of minority shareholders in corporate takeovers. In addition, control premiums weaken the Swiss financial centre in terms of international competition.

  • 1st Repetitive General Meeting Of Hellenic Exchanges

    Date 12/06/2012

    HELLENIC EXCHANGES S.A. HOLDING, CLEARING, SETTLEMENT AND REGISTRY announces that today, June 12th 2012, the 1st Repetitive General Meeting of shareholders of the Company was held in the “HERMES” hall at the offices of the Company. Shareholders representing the 55.0% of the 65,368,563 total common registered shares participated.

  • SEC Charges 14 Sales Agents In $415 Million Long Island-Based Ponzi Scheme

    Date 12/06/2012

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 14 sales agents who misled investors and illegally sold securities for a Long Island-based investment firm at the center of a $415 million Ponzi scheme.

  • Fitch Takes Rating Actions On Spanish Banks Following Sovereign Downgrade

    Date 12/06/2012

    Fitch Ratings has downgraded 18 Spanish banks' Long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) and 15 banks' Viability Ratings (VR). At the same time, the agency has placed the Long-term and Short-term IDRs of three banks on Rating Watch Negative (RWN) and maintained five banks on RWN. The Support Rating Floors (SRF) assigned to four banks have also been revised. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this comment.

  • World Bank Urges Developing Countries To Strengthen Domestic Fundamentals, To Weather Global Economic Turmoil

    Date 12/06/2012

    A resurgence of tensions in high-income Europe has eroded the gains made during the first four months of this year, which saw a rebound in economic activity in both developing and advanced countries and an easing of risk aversion among investors. Since May 1st, increased market jitters have spread. Developing and high-income country stock markets have lost some 7 percent, giving up two-thirds of the gains generated over the preceding four months. Most industrial commodity prices are down, with crude and copper prices down by 19 and 14 percent, respectively, while developing country currencies have lost value against the US dollar, as international capital fled to safe-haven assets, such as German and U.S. government bonds.

  • CEO Of The Nigerian Stock Exchange To Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

    Date 12/06/2012

    The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) which services the second largest financial centre in sub-Saharan Africa will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

  • Public Statement By SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar: Investor Voices Renewed: The New Investor Advisory Committee

    Date 12/06/2012

    It is a pleasure to be here with you for the first meeting of the new Investor Advisory Committee. Before I begin, let me issue the standard disclaimer that the views I express today are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission, my fellow Commissioners, or members of the staff.

  • NASDAQ Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks As Of Settlement Date May 31, 2012

    Date 12/06/2012

    At the end of the settlement date of May 31, 2012, short interest in 2,230 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,347,012,533 shares compared with 7,001,712,386 shares in 2,235 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 15, 2012. The end-of-May short interest represents 3.84 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.94 days for the prior reporting period.

  • European Central Bank: Financial Stability Review June 2012

    Date 12/06/2012

    The overall outlook for financial stability has remained very challenging in the euro area. Significant financial market turmoil experienced late last year gave way to some respite in the early months of 2012 following resolute Eurosystem measures, against the background of cumulative political action geared towards a comprehensive strategy to address the causes of the euro area crisis. This relative calm, however, has proven to be fragile and renewed pressures have again emerged since April. Remaining vulnerabilities in the financial stability outlook demonstrate that there is no room for complacency in implementing needed adjustment, either on the part of governments or on that of banks. In particular, Member States should step up their initiatives to strengthen the fiscal and banking components of a robust monetary union.

  • U.S. Treasury Department Announces $619 Million Settlement With ING Bank, N.V. - Largest-Ever Settlement Reached In A Sanctions Case

    Date 12/06/2012

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced a $619 million settlement with ING Bank N.V. (ING Bank) to settle potential liability for apparent violations of U.S. sanctions. Today’s settlement is the largest OFAC settlement of any kind to date. The settlement resolves OFAC’s investigation into ING Bank’s intentional manipulation and deletion of information about U.S.-sanctioned parties in more than 20,000 financial and trade transactions routed through third-party banks located in the United States between 2002 and 2007, primarily in apparent violation of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR), 31 C.F.R. part 515, but also of the Iranian Transactions Regulations (ITR), 31 C.F.R. part 560; the Burmese Sanctions Regulations (BSR), 31 C.F.R. part 537; the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (SSR), 31 C.F.R. part 538; and the now-repealed version of the Libyan Sanctions Regulations (LSR), 31 C.F.R. part 550, which was in effect until 2004. ING Bank’s settlement with OFAC is simultaneous with settlements with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, the Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and the New York County District Attorney’s Office.