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G20 GDP Growth Slows To +0.7% In The Fourth Quarter Of 2011

Date 14/03/2012

Euroclear Bank And BNP Paribas Securities Services Announce Partnership On Triparty Collateral Management

Date 14/03/2012

Euroclear Bank and BNP Paribas Securities Services today announced an agreement at Euroclear’s annual Collateral Management Conference that will enable their mutual clients to benefit from access to a larger pool of collateral for triparty transactions. 

LCH.Clearnet, NYPC, DTCC And NYSE Euronext Collaborate To Provide Unprecedented Clearing And Margining Efficiencies For Market Participantsparticipants

Date 14/03/2012

• The initiative aims to enhance NYPC’s proven “one-pot” capabilities to offer: 
• Cross product-margining & default management across fixed income, cash, repo, futures and OTC interest rate swaps 
• Extended capital and operational efficiencies 
• Unified risk management approach

Remarks On Dodd-Frank Financial Reform At The FIA International Futures Industry Conference - CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler

Date 14/03/2012

Good morning. Thanks Jeff for that introduction, and I thank the Futures Industry Association (FIA) for inviting me.

IOSCO Consults On Exchange Traded Funds Regulation

Date 14/03/2012

The Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation report, Principles for the Regulation of Exchange Traded Funds, which examines the key regulatory issues regarding ETFs. It also proposes 15 principles against which both the industry and regulators can assess the quality of regulation and industry practices relating to ETFs regarding investor protection, sound functioning of markets and financial stability.

Top 15 Sovereign And Corporate Credit Default Swaps - Provided By The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Date 14/03/2012

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is publishing a weekly email containing simple, easy-to-read tables listing credit default swaps (CDS) contracts on the top 15 sovereign and corporate reference entities by net notional amount as well as the Top 10 volume movers, both corporate and sovereign, by percentage change based on the net notional amount registered in its Trade Information Warehouse for the week ending March 9, 2012, along with historical data. 

Exchange Council Welcomes Results Of EPEX Spot’s Member Survey - European Power Exchange Deepens Dialogue With Its Customers And Listens Actively To Their Needs

Date 14/03/2012

The Exchange Council of the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT welcomed the member survey and approved its results and the developments the exchange will subsequently take into consideration. The survey, encompassing feedback by 70 Exchange Members, was designed to evaluate the services and products of the Exchange. 

Macquarie To launch Commodity Investor Products Business, Appoints Arun Assumall To Head Business

Date 14/03/2012

Macquarie Group Limited today announces the appointment of Arun Assumall as global head of its new Commodity Investor Products business within the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Group (FICC), based in London.

"Osborne Bond" - Cass Comment

Date 14/03/2012

Commenting on the UK chancellor’s plans to launch an “Osborne bond”, Professor Philip Booth of Cass Business School, said:

“It is the responsibility of the government to fund its borrowing as cheaply as possible. It is therefore right to consider issuing very-long-dated bonds, but a more urgent matter is to increase the issue of index-linked bonds."

Tehran Stock Exchange Lists Iran Kish Credit Card Co.

Date 14/03/2012

On 13 March 2012, Iran Kish Credit Card Co. (KiCCC), a PSP (Payment Service Provider), made an initial public offering of about 30 million shares (equivalent to 10 percent of its total equity shares) at Tehran Stock Exchange.