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S&P Indices & TMX Group Launch S&P/TSX Composite Equal Weight Index For The Canadian Market

Date 28/10/2011

S&P Indices and TMX announced today the launch of an Equal Weight version of the S&P/TSX Composite Index providing Canadian investors with a new and innovative approach to tracking the performance of the principal broad-based index for the Canadian market.

BATS Europe Completes Successful Data Centre Migration To Equinix - Sets First Technology Release From New Data Centre For 4th November

Date 28/10/2011

BATS Europe today announced it has successfully completed the migration of its matching engine and infrastructure to Equinix’s London LD4 International Business Exchange™ (IBXÒ) data centre campus and will launch a new Binary Order Entry protocol from the LD4 campus on the 4^th of November.

Derivatives Trading At BSE On 28th October 2011

Date 28/10/2011

1. Volume: Rs. 218 Cr with trading in 5 underlying.
2. Participation of 86 broker members. 
3. Trading Summary:        

HKEx Changes Of Designated Securities For Short Selling

Date 28/10/2011

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), announces that with effect from 3 November 2011 (Thursday), 18 additional securities will be eligible for short selling and 97 existing designated securities will be removed from the list.  The total number of designated securities for short selling will be 646 after the revision. 

ESMA: Comment Letter To EFRAG - EFRAG's Draft Response To The IFRS Interpretations Committee Draft Response On The Committee’s Tentative Agenda Decisions

Date 28/10/2011

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EuroInvestors : The Reform Of Financial Markets Proposed By The European Commission (“Mifid 2”): Give Back Capital Markets To The Real Economy Users: Non Financial Investors And Issuers

Date 28/10/2011

“MiFID 1” has further discouraged EU citizens and non financial issuers (SMEs in particular) from investing on the capital markets, favoring again their “re-intermediation” by financial intermediaries. Although the EU official reports remain silent on this fundamental financial, economic and political issue, we estimate that the share of the European individual investors in the European equity markets is now down to around 10% from about 50 % a few decades ago. The evolution is even worse for the bond markets.

ESMA: Comment Letter To IASB - ED Mandatory Effective Date IFRS 9

Date 28/10/2011

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Securities Commission Malaysia: Former Transmile Directors Sentenced To Jail And Fined For Misleading Disclosures

Date 28/10/2011

The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today found two former independent directors of Transmile Group Berhad guilty under section 122B(b)(bb) of the Securities Industry Act 1983, for having authorized the furnishing of a misleading statement to Bursa Malaysia in Transmile’s ‘Quarterly Report on Unaudited Consolidated Results for the Financial Year Ended 31 December 2006’.

ESMA: Comment letter to EFRAG - EFRAG's draft response to the IASB ED Mandatory Effective Date IFRS 9

Date 28/10/2011

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Securities Commission Malaysia Charges Rantau Simfoni Director For Illegal Trading In Futures Contracts

Date 28/10/2011

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today charged Zamani Hamdan, a company director, for trading in futures contracts without a licence.