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Dubai Mercantile Exchange Announces India's Largest Oil Refiner As Newest Member

Date 05/09/2012

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’s largest private sector enterprise, has today become the newest Member of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). Reliance Industries is DME’s 26th Off Floor Member, and its decision to join comes at a time of continued growth for the Exchange, which saw trades pass the 3 billion barrel mark in May this year.

Newedge Strengthens Alternative Investment Solutions

Date 05/09/2012

Newedge, a global leader in multi-asset brokerage and clearing, announced today the following appointments in its Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) group, a part of Newedge’s Prime Clearing Services.

Trading Technologies To Provide Connectivity To Eris Exchange

Date 05/09/2012

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, and Eris Exchange, a U.S.-based futures exchange, today announced that TT will offer a new gateway to connect its trading software to the Eris SwapBook™electronic trading platform. With the new connection, which is currently targeted for release in the fourth quarter of 2012, TT customers will gain the ability to trade benchmark Eris Exchange Interest Rate Swap Futures and inter-market spreads through TT’s X_TRADER^® trading platform and related products.

Polish Power Exchange: Closer To The Exchange Gas Market

Date 05/09/2012

• The Polish Financial Supervision Authority has approved the Rules of Gas Trading on the Polish Power Exchange and the Rules of the Exchange Clearing House (Commodity Market) operated by the Warsaw Commodity Clearing House.
• The documents constitute the formal basis for the operation of the gas market on POLPX and set out among others the conditions which must be fulfilled by market participants in order to trade in gas on the exchange.
• Currently, trade will only be possible through brokerage houses and commodity brokerage houses which are POLPX members and employ commodity exchange brokers.

Deutsche Börse New Network Operator For CEESEG

Date 05/09/2012

Deutsche Börse AG and CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG) have recently concluded a major IT agreement. From mid-September 2012, Deutsche Börse IT will act as network operator for the largest stock exchange group in Central and Eastern Europe and provide its ExServes CEESEG FIX Connectivity solution for connecting customers to the CEESEG FIX Gateway.

IntercontinentalExchange Sets Date Of November 5 For Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Announcement

Date 05/09/2012

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, will announce third quarter 2012 financial results on Monday, November 5, 2012. An earnings press release will be issued prior to the earnings conference call, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET.

South Africa's Securities Exchanges Regulation Declared Number One By World Economic Forum

Date 05/09/2012

For the third consecutive year, the regulation of South Africa’s securities exchanges has again been declared number one out of 144 countries included in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Competitiveness Survey.  The country’s securities market regulators are the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and its regulator, the Financial Services Board (FSB).

ICE Reports August Futures Volume - Surpasses One Million CDS Trades Cleared To Date

Date 05/09/2012

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today reported futures volume for August 2012. Average daily volume (ADV) for ICE's futures markets was 1,345,080 contracts, a decline of 18% from the prior August. Year-to-date through August 31, ADV across ICE's futures exchanges was 1,550,296 contracts, up 2% compared to the first eight months of 2011. Total futures volume in August 2012 was 30.9 million contracts.

FTSE China Index Series Quarterly Review - Poly Real Estate Group (A) To Be Added To FTSE China A50 Index - China Overseas Land & Investment To Be Added To FTSE China 25 Index

Date 05/09/2012

FTSE Group (“FTSE”), the award winning global index provider, announces the results of the FTSE China Index Series quarterly review today.

R.J. O’Brien Appoints Gabriele CFO Of Holding Company

Date 05/09/2012

R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the nation’s oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm, announced that Jim Gabriele joins the firm today as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the firm’s holding company, RJO Holdings Corp.  Gabriele, 45, has spent more than two decades in senior operational, financial, management and consulting roles for alternative investment and brokerage firms.