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Hong Kong Exchange Renews Contract With NASDAQ OMX And Upgrades To INET-Based Trading Platform - HKEx Migrates To Genium INET Powered Platform For Derivatives Trading And Clearing

Date 26/06/2012

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announces that the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd (HKEx) will upgrade its derivatives trading system (HKATS) and clearing system (DCASS) to NASDAQ OMX's Genium INET technology. In addition HKEx has extended its support contract with NASDAQ OMX for a further five years. The platform upgrade is scheduled to be in effect by fourth quarter of 2013.

European Summit: EESC President Urges Decision On Master Plan For Europe - Sustainable Growth And Employment Will Come Only Through Fiscal, Financial And Political Union

Date 26/06/2012

For EESC president Staffan Nilsson the moment of truth has come: “This is the final round for the euro and European integration; this time it cannot be just one more European summit because people have lost faith. Either the eurozone - with Europe in its wake - will make the quantum leap in integration or it will break apart.” Since the Lehmann brothers bankruptcy, the EESC has been calling for more European integration as the only appropriate response to the crisis. Now, after years of intergovernmentalism in Europe and with too many small, half-hearted steps, only a true master plan with a clear roadmap attached can save Europe from disintegration and disorder and pave the way for sustainable growth and employment.

Dion Launches OTC Pricing & Risk Management Tool - Global Financial Services Software Provider Launches Dfferentia

Date 26/06/2012

Dion Global Solutions (Dion) (BSE: 526927), technology partner to the financial services industry, has today launched dfferentia: a hosted pricing, valuation and multi-asset class risk management solution for buy and sell side institutions. dfferentia will provide more accurate and efficient pricing of OTC derivatives than previously available and has been developed by Dion in response to market demand.

STOXX Launches Euro iSTOXX 50 Equal Risk Index - New Index Initiated By And Licensed To Lyxor To Underlie Exchange-Traded Fund

Date 26/06/2012

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the launch of the EURO iSTOXX 50 Equal Risk Index. The new strategy index applies an equal risk contribution (ERC) concept to the EURO STOXX 50 Index in order to spread the overall risk of the portfolio equally between the 50 index components. The new index, which is based on the Modern Portfolio Theory, aims to achieve maximum risk diversification.

HKEx Announces Temporary Holiday Risk Management Arrangements

Date 26/06/2012

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced the following holiday risk management arrangements.

London Stock Exchange Welcomes Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Media & Technology To Main Market - Egyptian Telecommunications Firm Lists Gdrs - 12th Egyptian Company Quoted On LSE

Date 26/06/2012

London Stock Exchange (LSE) today welcomes Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT) to its Main Market. The company has listed Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs).

UK’s Financial Services Authority Statement On Kaupthing Singer And Friedlander Limited

Date 26/06/2012

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was responsible for regulating Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander Limited (“KSFL”), the UK based subsidiary of the Icelandic banking group Kaupthing Bank Hf (“KBHf”), prior to the failure of the Icelandic parent company, and the UK subsidiary being placed into administration on 8 October 2008. The parent company, KBHf, was regulated by the Icelandic regulator, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority (FME).

Tokyo Stock Exchange Has Published The Index Value Of TSE Home Price Index For April

Date 26/06/2012

TSE has published the index value of TSE Home Price Index for April on June 26, 2012.

Tokyo Grain Exchange: SPAN Parameters Effective From July 2, 2012 To July 13, 2012

Date 26/06/2012

The SPAN parameters applicable from July 2, 2012 (Mon) to July 13, 2012 (Fri) is now available on the Japan Commodity Clearing House website at the following URL:

http://www.jcch.co.jp/i/

Institutional Investors And Corporations Suggest That Inflation-Linked Corporate Bonds May Provide Solution To Both Parties And Could Become An Interesting Substitute For Sovereign Debt

Date 26/06/2012

In a survey of institutional investors and members of corporate finance departments, EDHEC-Risk Institute sought reactions to the key conclusions of a study entitled “Optimal Design of Corporate Market Debt Programmes in the Presence of Interest-Rate and Inflation Risks”, which was produced as part of the Rothschild & Cie research chair.