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Speech By SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar: A Step Toward Enhanced Market Surveillance

Date 27/07/2011

In 1990, Congress gave the Commission authority to monitor large traders. At the time, Congress stated that it intended this authority to “greatly enhance the Commission’s understanding of how our markets are used by large traders and whether the strategies or practices employed by such large traders may pose routine or extraordinary risks, intended or not, to the stability or the integrity of our securities markets.” Today, the Commission takes the first step to implement Congress’ stated intention. The new rule before us, Rule 13h-1, would create the means for the Commission to identify and track the trading and market impact of significant market participants.

Deutsche Börse: Eight New db x-trackers ETFs Launched On Xetra - ETFs Track Performance Of Country And Regional Indices In MSCI Index Family - First ETF On Russell Midcap Index

Date 27/07/2011

HKEx Chief Executive Charles Li’s Views On HKEx’s Market Structure Reforms

Date 27/07/2011

HKEx Chief Executive Charles Li published on 26 July an article in Chinese on HKEx’s market structure reforms.  Fifteen months have passed since HKEx announced its Strategic Plan 2010-2012 in March 2010.  As HKEx is now midway through the plan, Mr Li is taking this opportunity to review the past, examine the present and ponder the future.  A summary of the English version is now available on the HKEx website: http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/newsconsul/speech/2011/sp110726.htm

Deutsche Börse: SPAC Helikos SE Acquires Exceet Group AG - First Investment Vehicle On Frankfurt Stock Exchange Acquires Target Company

Date 27/07/2011

Helikos SE of Luxembourg (ISIN: LU0472835155) was the first special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to go public on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in February 2010.

Eurex Expands Commodity Derivatives Offering By Introducing Derivatives On Two Commodity ETPs - Listing On 29 July 2011

Date 27/07/2011

The international derivatives exchange Eurex today announced that from 29 July 2011 it will be offering futures and options on two commodity ETPs (exchange traded products) launched by ETF Securities: "Physical Gold" and "Crude Oil". The Physical Gold ETP is one of the world’s largest with assets under management of over 4 billion euros. The new derivatives complement the ETF derivatives segment of Eurex Exchange where 3 futures and 21 options on ETFs are currently tradable. 

Instinet Improves On Near-Perfect European SmartRouter Performance

Date 27/07/2011

Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that Intelligent Financial Systems Limited (IFS) in the second quarter continued its independent evaluation of Instinet Europe Limited’s SmartRouter. By value traded, the technology’s ability to identify and achieve the best possible displayed price for UK equity trades improved from within 99.9997 percent of perfection in March to 99.9998[1] percent in the second quarter.

KVH And Ciena Complete Successful 10 Gigabit Ethernet Wirespeed Link Encryption Trial For The First Time In Japan - To Offer Ultra Low-Latency And High-Performance Encryption Solution To Security Conscious Customers

Date 27/07/2011

KVH Co. Ltd., Japan's leading information delivery platform providing IT and communication solutions, and Ciena(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced they successfully completed a transmission trial of an encrypted 10 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) Ethernet data connection between KVH Data Centers in Tokyo and Chiba, Japan. Based on Ciena’s 5000 Advanced Services Family, this trial is the first successful encrypted 10 Gigabit Ethernet transmission trial using optical transport equipment in Japan. The success of this trial will enable the two companies to offer a new differentiated encryption solution delivering best-in-class latency and addressing the high-quality service needs of enterprises in financial or transaction-oriented industries in Japan. The two companies aim to commercialize the new service within 2011.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Holds ETF Investment Training Seminar

Date 27/07/2011

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) invited 100-plus people from 20 large securities companies' business departments as well as fund companies, software tool companies and EFT investors in Northeast China to Dalian for the special ETF business training and exchange on July 26.

CFTC: Meeting Of The Technology Advisory Subcommittee On Data Standardization

Date 26/07/2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Subcommittee on Data Standardization, a new Subcommittee of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting.

NASDAQ Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date July 15, 2011

Date 26/07/2011

At the end of the settlement date of July 15, 2011, short interest in 2,297 NASDAQ Global Market^SM securities totaled 6,731,359,242 shares compared with 6,794,258,468 shares in 2,303 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 30, 2011. The mid-July short interest represents 3.62 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.69 days for the prior reporting period.