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Osaka Securities Exchange: Extension Of Trading Hours In Evening Session

Date 28/04/2010

OSE announced to extend the trading hours of stock index futures and options in evening session until 23:30 starting from July 20, 2010, in order to improve convenience for investors.
CFTC Determines That Seven Contracts Traded On The IntercontinentalExchange Inc Are Significant Price Discovery Contracts - Contracts Are Subject To Commission Oversight, Emergency Authority And Large Trader Reporting Requirements

Date 28/04/2010

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today determined, by a 5-0 vote, that seven contracts traded on the IntercontinentalExchange Inc (ICE) perform significant price discovery functions. As such, the contracts must be traded in compliance with applicable core principles and statutory provisions. The Commission considered a total of 24 contracts traded on three Exempt Commercial Markets (ECMs): ICE, the Natural Gas Exchange, Inc (NGX) and the Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc (CCX
BM&FBOVESPA Registers A Record 1.6 Million Contracts Traded Via DMA In The Derivatives Segment

Date 28/04/2010

The Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange – BM&FBOVESPA registered on April 27, the historic mark of 1,630,115 contracts traded in 155,637 trades via Direct Market Access (DMA) in the derivatives segment. The previous records were 1,326,184 contracts traded (set on 3/18/2010) and 151,437 trades (set on 4/16/2010), respectively.
Steel Trading Surges On The London Metal Exchange

Date 28/04/2010

Tuesday, 27th April 2010 saw 1,514 lots traded – previous high was 1,288 lots Market Open Interest up 155% since start of year to 2,906 lots from 1,138 lots
Contagion Risk As Greece Debt Deal Reaches Crunch Point Warns City Expert

Date 28/04/2010

The full extent of the Greece debt crisis is yet to unfold with the risk of contagion to other weak euro economies, a City expert has warned, as pressure rises on Germany to provide financial support to Greece.

Financial Services Authority Charges Ex-Hedge Fund Trader

Date 28/04/2010

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today charged Anjam Ahmad, an ex-hedge fund trader, with one count of conspiracy to commit insider dealing contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.
RTS Realtime Systems Rolls Out RTD Tango To Singapore’s UOBF Schneider - Singapore Association Of Financial And Commodity Traders (AFACT) And UOBF Schneider Lead Efforts In Bringing Algorithmic Trading To Singapore

Date 28/04/2010

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading global trading solutions provider, announced today that the firm has successfully rolled out its low latency, event-based algorithmic trading solution to the first group of advanced traders at UOBF Schneider in Singapore. The group of traders has deployed RTS‘ high performance solutions following participation in a Singapore program to train former floor traders choosing to transition from a “point and click“ approach to algorithmic trading.
RTS Group Weekly Trading Results: April 19 – 23, 2010

Date 28/04/2010

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NASDAQ OMX Commodities Introduced Inter Commodity Spread Credit

Date 28/04/2010

NASDAQ OMX Commodities today successfully introduced Inter Commodity Spread Credit (ICSC). As a result of this, NASDAQ OMX Stockholm's clearing procedures have been updated.
FORTS: After-Hours Trading Volume On FORTS Exceeds USD1 Billion

Date 28/04/2010

On April 27, 2010 the evening trading volume on FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, reached a value of RUB29.809 billion or USD1.025 billion, which is an all time high since the evening trading session was introduced on FORTS.