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MAB Welcomes Carbures To The Market

Date 23/03/2012

The MAB today welcomed CARBURES to its segment for growth companies. It is the nineteenth company to list on this market.

UK's Financial Services Authority Publishes Final Guidance On Structured Products

Date 23/03/2012

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published its final guidance on the development and governance of retail structured products.

The Financial Transaction Tax Will Reduce Member States' GNI Contributions To The EU Budget By 50%

Date 23/03/2012

If adopted as a new own resource of the EU budget the financial transaction tax (FTT) will significantly reduce the contributions of member states to the EU budget. According to estimates presented yesterday by the European Commission, Member States' contributions would be slashed by €54bn in 2020.

Deutsche Börse: MSCI Europe Value Source ETF Launched On Xetra

Date 23/03/2012

A new equity index fund issued by Source has been tradable on Xetra since Friday.

HKEx Announces Temporary Holiday Risk Management Arrangements

Date 23/03/2012

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

TOCOM Gold Market Celebrates 30th Anniversary Today

Date 23/03/2012

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) announced today the celebration of the 30th anniversary of its gold futures contract. On March 23, 1982, the Tokyo Gold Exchange, the market operator at the time, launched the first gold futures contract in Japan. Two years later, the Tokyo Commodity Exchange was formed by merging the Tokyo Gold Exchange, Tokyo Textile Exchange and Tokyo Rubber Exchange.

Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Trading Report - 23rd March, 2012

Date 23/03/2012

Please click here to view the Malawi Stock Exchange weekly trading report.

MCX Weekly Market Report March 16, 2012 - March 22, 2012

Date 23/03/2012

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Professor Raman Uppal Of EDHEC-Risk Institute Co-Recipient Of First Prize From S&P At The SPIVA Awards

Date 23/03/2012

EDHEC-Risk Institute is pleased to announce that Raman Uppal, Member of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, along with co-authors Grigory Vilkov and Yuliya Plyakha, both of Goethe University in Frankfurt, has been awarded first prize at the SPIVA Awards for the paper "Why Does an Equal-Weighted Portfolio Outperform Value- and Price-Weighted Portfolios?"

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Takeovers-Related Amendments Take Effect

Date 23/03/2012

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that the following amendments (Note 1) to the Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Repurchases (Codes) will take immediate effect:

• Property valuation requirements now only apply to offers when the offeror is an interested party (Note 2).
• Regarding confirmations of independence of placees in placing and top-up transactions, it is the responsibility of the financial adviser, placing agent and acquirer of the voting rights to confirm the independence of placees.
• The prescribed period for payment of acceptance of an offer is no longer 10 days but seven business days.