News Centre

Annual Legal Study Ranks Top 25 Law Firms In The United States - Directors And General Counsel Rank America’s Top Corporate Law Firms For 2012

Date 10/05/2012

Corporate Board Member magazine and global business advisory firm FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN ) today announced the results of the 12^th annual America’s Best Corporate Law Firms study, a comprehensive ranking by U.S. corporate directors and general counsel of the top 25 national corporate law firms.

Opening Statement On CFTC Open Meeting Regarding Core Principles And Other Requirements For Designated Contract Markets - CFTC Commissioner Mark P. Wetjen

Date 10/05/2012

The final rules before us today codify and interpret the core principles that apply to designated contract markets, or “DCMs.” As with so many of our rules, today’s recommendations are designed to protect the public and ensure fair competition between exchanges and markets.

Program Trading Averaged 30.4 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Apr. 30-May 4

Date 10/05/2012

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Apr. 30-May 4.

deVere Group Comes Out In Support Of Increased Industry Scrutiny By UK's Financial Services Authority

Date 10/05/2012

The deVere Group, the world’s largest independent financial advisory firm, is publicly championing the Financial Services Authority’s latest plans to tighten-up regulation within the wealth management sector.

April 2012 FIF Market Share And Market Dynamics Reports – Executive Summary

Date 10/05/2012

U.S. Equities Market Share

• Share volumes traded across Tape A, B, and C decreased 10% monthly and decreased 8%annually to approximately 130 billion shares.
• In April 2012, off-exchange trading accounted for 32% of the shares traded in NMS Equity Securities.
• Share volume in NYSE-listed securities decreased 11% monthly and 6% annually to 75 billion shares.
• NASDAQ-listed securities share volume decreased 8% monthly and 12% annually to 34 billion shares.

MGEX Announces Single-Click Spread Functionality Between MGEX And CBOT Wheat Contracts

Date 10/05/2012

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization, today  unveiled new functionality involving its Hard Red Spring Wheat (HRSW) futures contract. At the request of market participants, MGEX collaborated with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) to introduce single-click trading functionality between the MGEX HRSW futures and  CBOT Soft  Red Winter Wheat (SRWW) futures contracts.

ISDA Japan Annual Collateral Survey 2012

Date 10/05/2012

Click here to download the summary results of the ISDA Japan Annual Collateral Survey 2012.

Bucharest Stock Exchange’s Net Profit Is Up By 26% In The First Quarter Of 20121

Date 10/05/2012

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) reported first-quarter 2012 net profit of RON 2.77 million,up 26% compared with the same quarter from 2011 and up 140% from fourth-quarter 2011 (Q1.2011: RON 2.20 million, Q4.2011: RON 1.15 million). The successful closing of the secondary public offer for 15% of the shares issued by the national company of electricity transmission, Transelectrica, was one of the main events which influenced BVB’s operating activity in the first quarter of 2012.

Opening Statement, Open Meeting To Consider One Final Rule On Core Principles And Other Requirements For Designated Contract Markets - CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia

Date 10/05/2012

Today, the Commission will consider one final rule on core principles and other requirements for designated contract markets (“DCMs”). First, I would like to thank Nadia Zakir and her team for their hard work in completing this significant rulemaking. I greatly appreciate the cooperation of the team and other Commission staff in accommodating my requests for changes to the final rulemaking.

Financial Stability Board: Formation Of The Enhanced Disclosure Task Force

Date 10/05/2012

The importance to market confidence of useful disclosure by financial institutions of their risk exposures and risk management practices has been underscored in recent years, and the FSB mentioned, in its press release on 20 March 2012, that it will facilitate the formation of a private-sector task force to develop principles for improved disclosures.