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ICAP Enters Australian Agricultural And Soft Commodities Broking Market

Date 06/02/2012

ICAP, the world’s leading interdealer broker, announces that it is entering the Australian agricultural and soft commodities market in February with a new team. The team of three brokers, led by Gary Booth, was formerly at MF Global.

ICE Chairman And CEO Named To 2012 Institutional Investor's All-America Executive Team

Date 06/02/2012

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, was honored in Institutional Investor's 2012 CEO and Investor Relations rankings.

Deutsche Börse: SPDR ETF On High-Yield Bonds Launched On Xetra

Date 06/02/2012

A further exchange-listed bond index fund issued by SPDR (State Street Global Advisors) has been tradable on Xetra^® since Monday.

Deutsche Börse Plans Resegmentation Of The Open Market - Move Increases Transparency In The Capital Market - Tightening Of The Entry Standard Rules

Date 06/02/2012

Deutsche Börse is planning a resegmentation of the Open Market. The First Quotation Board in its current form will be discontinued, the Entry Standard's rules are also being tightened. In future, aside from bonds, only equities which have a listing on another domestic or foreign stock-exchange-like trading venue recognised by Deutsche Börse will be included in the Quotation Board, as was the case in the former Second Quotation Board. 

Richard Berliand And Alain Gaudeau, Two High-Calibre Industry Veterans, Join ITRS As Non-Executive Directors

Date 06/02/2012

ITRS Group Ltd, the Carlyle Group-backed leading global provider of predictive, real-time APM (Application Performance Monitoring) technology to the world’s financial community, is excited to announce the appointment of two new non-executive directors.

EEX Sets New Daily Record On The Gas Market

Date 06/02/2012

At 424,435 MWh (GASPOOL, NCG and TTF market areas)trading on the Natural Gas Spot Market of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) reached a new record level last Friday, 3 February 2012. An amount of 374,232 MWh of this total was sold in day-ahead trading and 50,203 MWh thereof were sold in within-day trading. In total, 49 trading participants concluded 329 transactions on Friday. The previous record had been achieved on 23 June 2010 with a traded volume of 300,286 MWh.

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - January 2012

Date 06/02/2012

Highlights

- Securities Market

• The average daily turnover in January 2012 was $55,618 million, a decrease of 26 per cent when compared with $75,016 million for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of CBBCs in January 2012 was $7,084 million, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with $5,816 million for the same period in 2011.
• There were 11 new listings in January 2012, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with 9 for the same period in 2011.

LME Launches Live Forward Price Curve

Date 06/02/2012

The London Metal Exchange (LME) today will begin publishing live forward prices for all metals traded in the last Ring session of the day (the afternoon “Kerb”), a refinement that will add further transparency to the procedures used to establish the Closing Prices.

HKEx Trading Statistics For January 2012 - On-Floor & Off-Floor Trading Statistics

Date 06/02/2012

Delivering A Twin Peaks Regulatory Model Within The UK's Financial Services Authority

Date 06/02/2012

In a speech to the British Bankers’ Association, Hector Sants, chief executive of the FSA, gave an update on the progress of the regulatory reform programme. He announced a major milestone in the regulatory reform programme, namely the introduction of a ‘twin peaks’ model operating within the FSA from 2 April 2012.