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Kevin M. Bertsch, Associate Director, Division Of Banking Supervision And Regulation - Banking Supervision - Before The Subcommittee On Financial Institutions And Consumer Credit, Committee On Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., February 1, 2012

Date 01/02/2012

Chairwoman Capito, Ranking Member Maloney, and members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Federal Reserve's perspective on H.R. 3461, the "Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act." The Federal Reserve supervises more than 5,000 bank holding companies and 825 state-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System (state member banks). As of July last year, it also assumed responsibility for the supervision of more than 430 savings and loan holding companies. The Federal Reserve shares the subcommittee's interest in ensuring a fair examination process and providing banks with a robust and transparent process for appealing material supervisory determinations with which they disagree.

The Majority Of Companies Rate Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority - Finansinspektionen - Positively

Date 01/02/2012

As part of its business follow-up in 2011, Finansinspektionen has surveyed how companies subject to supervision perceive FI's method of working.

Trading On The Warsaw Stock Exchange – January 2012

Date 01/02/2012

• The monthly value of trading in shares was PLN 17.8 billion; the volume of trading in derivatives was over 0.8 million instruments.
• The value of session trading on the Main Market in January decreased by 12.6% year on year while the WIG index lost 13.2% over that period.
• The number of session transactions was 1.09 million in January 2012, as compared to 1.11 million in January 2011.
• Continuing high investor interest in currency futures increased the volume of trading in currency futures by 114.7% year on year.
• Treasury BondSpot Poland reported the highest ever monthly value of cash transactions: over PLN 40 billion (+208.2% year on year).

The Options Industry Council Announces January Volume Declined 11 Percent

Date 01/02/2012

The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 335,399,999 total options contracts changed hands in January, which is down 11.38 percent compared to January of last year when 378,480,506 contracts were traded.

Average Daily Volume Of 8.2 Million Contracts At Eurex Group In January

Date 01/02/2012

In January 2012, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.2 million contracts (Jan 2011: 10.4 million). Of those, 5.5 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (Jan 2011: 7.1 million), and 2.7 million contracts were at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE) (Jan 2011: 3.3 million). In total, 174.1 million contracts were traded, thereof 120.3 million at Eurex and 53.8 million at the ISE.

Deutsche Börse: Xetra Turnover In January At 99 Billion Euros - 19.7 Million Transactions On Xetra

Date 01/02/2012

Order book turnover on Xetra and the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading stood at €104.4 billion in January – a decrease by 14 percent year-on-year (January 2011: €121.7 billion). Of the €104.4 billion, €99.1 billion were attributable to Xetra – a decrease by 13 percent y-o-y (January 2011: €114.3 billion). €5.3 billion were attributable to the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading, a 30 percent decrease y-o-y (January 2011: €7.5 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled approximately €3.2 billion in January.

Key Figures SIX Swiss Exchange And Scoach Switzerland: January 2012

Date 01/02/2012

SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland have posted a sharp rise in trading activities compared to the previous month. Overall, turnover came to CHF 79.2 billion in January 2012. This was 13.7% more than in December 2011. The number of trades rose by 7.3% to 2,782,968.

STOXX Monthly Index Report – January In Review

Date 01/02/2012

As of January 31, 2012 stock market indices in Europe, Asia, the U.S. and globally were up, according to global index provider STOXX Limited. For the month of January, the Europe, Asia, U.S. and global markets were up 4.04%, 7.34%, 2.65% and 5.03%, respectively. The full performance report is below.

OCC Announces Retirement Of Bill Navin, Names James Brown New General Counsel

Date 01/02/2012

OCC announced today the retirement of Bill Navin, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of OCC. Mr. Navin joined OCC in July 1999, but was previously OCC’s outside counsel at Schiff Hardin & Waite. As a Schiff partner, Mr. Navin represented OCC since its inception in 1973.

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME): Seminar On New Laws Affecting Listed Companies

Date 01/02/2012

Over 300 professionals representing IBEX 35® companies as well as numerous universities and law firms have come together in the Spanish stock exchange for a seminar concerned with the latest legal and corporate governance developments affecting General Shareholders Meetings and Boards of Directors of listed companies.