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Eurosystem Signs T2S Framework Agreement With First Central Securities Depositories

Date 08/05/2012

Today, the European Central Bank (ECB) hosted an event to mark the signing of the T2S Framework Agreement by the Eurosystem and a first group of nine European central securities depositories (CSDs):

• Bank of Greece Securities Settlement System – BOGS (Greece)

• Clearstream Banking AG (Germany)

• Depozitarul Central S.A. (Romania)

• Iberclear (Spain)

• LuxCSD S.A. (Luxembourg)

• Monte Titoli S.p.A. (Italy)

• National Bank of Belgium Securities Settlement System – NBB-SSS (Belgium)

• VP LUX S.á.r.l. (Luxembourg)

• VP Securities A/S (Denmark).

NASDAQ OMX Commodities And Nord Pool Spot Monthly Market Report April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Highlights physical April 2012:

POWER:

• Nord Pool Spot market share of Nordic consumption was 72.7% in April.
• The total Nordic preliminary consumption for April was 31.6 TWh compared to 34.8 TWh inMarch.
• Volumes traded in the day-ahead and intraday markets were 25.9 TWh in April compared to 28.3TWh in March 2012.
• The   average Elspot system price for April was 31.71 EUR/MWh compared to 29.20 EUR/MWh in March 2012.
• The value of turnover in the day-ahead and intraday markets for April was EUR 0.9 billion.

Creditex And Markit To Conduct First Credit Event Auction In Chinese Corporate Credit Market - Sino-Forest Corp. CDS On May 9

Date 08/05/2012

IntercontinentalExchange's Creditex subsidiary and Markit will conduct a Credit Event Auction to facilitate settlement of credit default swaps (CDS) trades on Sino-Forest Corp. on May 9, 2012.  This will be the first credit event auction conducted to settle CDS trades outside of North America, Europe and Japan.

2012 Will Be A Year Of Disruption For US Hedge Funds Trading Equities, Says TABB - Large Funds Slashing Broker Tails - 50% Of Funds Want Greater Algorithmic Transparency - Rising Cost Of Compliance A Top Concern

Date 08/05/2012

After enduring 2011’s bruising markets, US hedge funds trading equities tell TABB Group that 2012 will be a year of disruption with market conditions, sell-side broker economics and regulation creating a triangle of change, already reshaping their trading environment.

Monte Titoli Signs ECB T2S Framework Agreement - Reaffirms Long-Standing Commitment To Participate In First Wave Of T2S - Supports T2S Objectives To Harmonise European Securities Settlement Infrastructure - Underpins Continuing Operation As Competitive, Neutral Settlement And Asset Servicing Provider

Date 08/05/2012

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE Group) today announces that Monte Titoli has signed the European Central Bank's (ECB) T2S Framework Agreement at a ceremony in Frankfurt. The signing ceremony was hosted by Mario Draghi, ECB President and Peter Praet, member of ECB Executive Board responsible for T2S.

TOM Insight April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Click here to download TOM’s April ‘12 Insight, a document describing matching statistics on TOM MTF and savings made for the retail client by TOM Smart Execution.

Hellenic Exchanges 11th Annual General Meeting: Modification Of The Articles Of Association

Date 08/05/2012

Hellenic Exchanges informs investors, in accordance with §2 art. 19 of Law 3556/2007 and ahead of the Annual General Meeting of shareholders, which will take place on Wednesday May 23^rd 2012 at 18:00, in Athens, at the headquarters of the company (110 Athinon Ave., ‘HERMES’ hall), that it intends to modify article 5 of its Articles of Association, as a result of the proposed reduction of the share capital by the mount of EUR5,229,485.04, which will take place through a EUR0.08 reduction in the stock par value (from EUR0.87 to EUR0.79) and distribution of that amount to shareholders.

Deutsche Börse To Hold Annual Investor Day On 1 June 2012 - Live Video Webcast Available

Date 08/05/2012

Deutsche Börse will hold its annual Investor Day for financial analysts and institutional investors on Friday, 1 June 2012 at its headquarters in Eschborn. A live video webcast will be available on www.deutsche-boerse.com/ir_e (no password or registration is required).

BM&FBOVESPA Announces Winner Of The Bidding Process For Use Of The New IBOVESPA ETF

Date 08/05/2012

Caixa Econômica Federal won the bidding process that BM&FBOVESPA held to license use of the BOVESPA Index for a new ETF based on IBOVESPA. The Exchange opened the proposals and announced the results of the process. Three institutions participated.

STOXX Launches STOXX+ Minimum Variance Indices In Collaboration With Axioma

Date 08/05/2012

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX+ Minimum Variance Index family. The new index family uses Harry M. Markowitz’s Nobel Prize winning Modern Portfolio Theory to create a hypothetical, risk-optimized portfolio, which is based on a variety of STOXX indices. Axioma, a leading provider of portfolio constructions tools and risk models, provides the fundamental factor model used to calculate the rebalancing portfolios.