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TOM Insight November 2011

Date 07/12/2011

Tokyo Stock Exchange And NYSE Euronext Sign Master Agreement Regarding Mutual Network Connection

Date 07/12/2011

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Atsushi Saito; hereinafter, "TSE") and NYSE Euronext (Location: New York, NY, CEO: Duncan Niederauer) have signed a "Master Agreement" regarding a mutual connection between TSE's arrownet™ and NYSE Euronext's Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI®). The Master Agreement comes as a result of the collaboration initiated by an LOI signed by both parties on March 1st,2011 (US time).

Tokyo Commodity Exchange Year-End/New Year Business Schedule

Date 07/12/2011

Business schedule for the year-end/new year is as follows.

Cleartrade Exchange Platform Extends Trading To Container Routes

Date 07/12/2011

Cleartrade Exchange Pte Ltd. (CLTX), the OTC electronic global marketplace for commodity derivatives, announced it is now listing container contracts, Container Freight Swap Agreements (CFSAs), on the routes indexed by WCI assessed by Drewry, on its platform.

NYSE Euronext Announces Trading Volumes For November 2011 - Global Derivatives ADV Up 1% Year-Over-Year - U.S. Equity Options ADV Up 10% - European Cash ADV Up 8% - U.S. Cash ADV Down 10%

Date 07/12/2011

NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced trading volumes for its global derivatives and cash equities exchanges for November 2011¹. Global derivatives average daily volume ("ADV") of 8.3 million contracts in November 2011 increased 0.7% versus the prior year with U.S. equity options increasing 10%. Cash equities ADV in November 2011 were mixed, with European cash trading ADV increasing 8.4% and U.S. cash trading ADV decreasing 9.9% from November 2010 levels.

Brady Facilitates Market Transparency On The Australian Bullion Exchange

Date 07/12/2011

Brady plc (BRY.L), the leading global supplier of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the metals, energy and softs sectors, announced today that the Australian Bullion Exchange (ABX), based in Brisbane, has extended its use of Brady solutions to bring order transparency to the market via its electronic trading platform.

NASDAQ OMX Iceland Lists Islandsbanki‘s Covered Bonds

Date 07/12/2011

NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) announces that NASDAQ OMX Iceland has approved an application to admit covered bonds issued by Islandsbanki hf. (issuer symbol: ISLA) to trading. The first day of trading will be 7 December, 2011. This is the first listing of a bond issued by an Icelandic financial company since the collapse in Iceland in 2008.

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Completes Strategic Leadership Team With Two Further Appointments

Date 07/12/2011

The Financial Markets Authority has completed the recruitment of its strategic leadership team with two further appointments reporting to Chief Executive Sean Hughes.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Large-Cap Equal Weight Index To Be Renamed

Date 07/12/2011

Shanghai Stock Exchange and China Securities Index today together announced that SSE Large-Cap Equal Weight Index will be renamed SSE 50 Equal Weight Index on Dec 22nd 2011. The shortened name will be changed into SSE 50 EWI. The index's Chinese full name as well as its Chinese shortened name will also be changed accordingly. The index methodology remains the same.

NZX Indices December 2011 Quarterly Review

Date 07/12/2011

NZX Indices announces the outcomes of the December 2011 Quarterly Index Review. Changes below to index constituents and indexed shares will be applied at market close on Friday 16 December 2011, and become effective at market open on Monday 19 December 2011. For clarity, NZX Indices advises that its review for index changes is carried out on the first Friday of each month.