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SEC Charges Texas Bank Holding Company’s CEO And CFO With Misleading Investors About Loan Quality And Financial Health During The Financial Crisis

Date 06/04/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it charged Franklin Bank Corp.’s former chief executives for their involvement in a fraudulent scheme designed to conceal the deterioration of the bank’s loan portfolio and inflate its reported earnings during the financial crisis.

BATS Global Markets Delisting Request To SEC - Withdraw Registration Statement On Form S-8

Date 06/04/2012

Pursuant to Rule 477 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, BATS Global Markets, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby respectfully requests that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) consent to the immediate withdrawal of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-180284) together with all exhibits and amendments thereto (the “Registration Statement”).  The Company is requesting such withdrawal because of its decision, taken together with the underwriters of the offering, to terminate the offering of the shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share, covered by the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-174166). The Registration Statement covered the registration of shares that were issuable under certain stock option agreements.

SEC Freezes Accounts Of Six Chinese Citizens And One Offshore Entity Charged With Insider Trading

Date 06/04/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has obtained a court-ordered freeze of the assets of six Chinese citizens and one British Virgin Islands entity charged with insider trading in Zhongpin Inc., a China-based pork processor whose shares trade in the U.S.

Daiwa Enters Year Two Running smartTrade For DRECT - Daiwa Uses smartTrade's Technology For DRECT's Dark Pool And Smart Order Routing

Date 06/04/2012

smartTrade Technologies, today announced that Daiwa Capital Markets' Daiwa Routing & Execution Crossing Technology (DRECT) trading system has been in production with smartTrade's smart order routing and dark pool technology for more than a year.

No Trading On Wiener Börse From April 6-9, 2012

Date 06/04/2012

Due to the Easter weekend there is no trading between April 6 and April 9, 2012 on Wiener Börse. Trading will be continued on Tuesday, April 10, 2012.

Thomson Reuters Global Equities Monthly Market Share Data Updated To Reflect March 2012 Activity

Date 06/04/2012

Trading is fragmenting between exchanges and competing venues. But by how much and which venues? Find out in the Thomson Reuters summarised monthly reports.

Summary Of March 2012 Activities At Tokyo Commodity Exchange - TOCOM March 2012 Average Daily Volume Up 5.7% From February 2012

Date 06/04/2012

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) announced today that March 2012 trading volume averaged 119,239 contracts per day, up 5.7% from February 2012. Most of the leading contracts at TOCOM saw volume increase on a month over month basis: the Gold Standard contract was up 12.7% to 55,069 contracts, the Platinum Standard contract rose 9.5% to 15,732 contracts,

BATS 1000 Index Down 0.6% This Week

Date 05/04/2012

BATS Global Markets, a leading operator of securities markets in the U.S. and Europe, reports the BATS 1000®Index (Ticker: BATSK) declined 89.74 points, or 0.6%, during the shortened trading week to close at 15,777.22 as of 4 p.m. ET today. The U.S. markets will be closed tomorrow in observance of Good Friday.

IMF Releases Background Material For Its Assessment Of China Under The Financial Sector Assessment Program

Date 05/04/2012

A joint International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The World Bank assessment of China's financial system was undertaken during 2010 under the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). The Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) report, which is the main IMF output of the FSAP process, was discussed by the Executive Board of the IMF at the time of the annual Article IV discussion in July 2011.

GreenX Monthly Report For March - GreenX Volumes Grow 20% In Q1 – CME Group Acquires GreenX Holdings

Date 05/04/2012

CME GROUP ACQUIRES GREENX HOLDINGS LLC 

On April 2, 2012, CME Group acquired a 100% equity interest in GreenX Holdings LLC, the parent company of GreenX. CME Group will migrate GreenX contracts and open interest to CME Group. Upon completion of the migration, all CME Group exchange clearing members will be able to clear GreenX products. CME Group and GreenX will work with market participants to ensure that trading and clearing of existing contracts on CME Globex and CME ClearPort continues with minimal impact throughout the migration process.