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  • KCBT Lowers Minimum Margins For Wheat Futures

    Date 19/11/2008

    The Kansas City Board of Trade has lowered its minimum margins for the hard red winter wheat futures contract.

  • CME Group Names Michael O'Connell As Managing Director, Clearing Business Development

    Date 19/11/2008

    CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has named Michael O'Connell as Managing Director, Clearing Business Development. O'Connell will be responsible for developing CME Clearing products and services. He will report to Kim Taylor, Managing Director and President, CME Clearing.

  • Fidessa Launches Fragmentation Index

    Date 19/11/2008

    Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero trading, market data and global connectivity solutions, has announced the launch of the Fidessa Fragmentation Index (FFI) which will provide the trading community with an accurate, unbiased measurement of the true state of liquidity fragmentation across order-driven markets in Europe.

  • UK First To Auction Carbon

    Date 19/11/2008

    The Government today held Europe’s first carbon allowance auction in Phase II (2008 – 2012) of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Four million allowances were sold at a total value of £54.4m excluding VAT, or £13.61 per allowance.

  • NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market To Extend Trading Hours

    Date 19/11/2008

    NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today announced that starting from February 2, 2009 it will extend trading hours on all NASDAQ OMX Baltic exchanges by 2 hours, remaining open until 4:00 pm (EET). On the stock exchanges in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius continuous trading will start at its current time of 9:59 am (EET) and trading will end at 4:00 pm (EET). Currently, continuous trading ends at 2:00 pm (EET).

  • FFastFill Plc Interim Results

    Date 19/11/2008

    FFastFill (LSE: FFA), the leading provider of Software as a Service (“SaaS”) solutions to the global derivatives community is pleased to announce interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008, showing strong progress during a period of continued investment: Financial Highlights Revenue increased by 45% to stand at £6.83m (H1 07/08: £4.72m) SaaS revenues increased 20% organically to £4.02m ‘12 month Order Book’ stands at £12.33m (H1 07/08: £10.50

  • PLUS Markets And Direct Edge Announce Transatlantic Co-Operation

    Date 19/11/2008

    PLUS Markets Group plc (“PLUS Markets”) and Direct Edge ECN LLP (“Direct Edge”) confirm today their intention to co-operate with a view to opportunities relating to the listing and trading of equity securities in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union. The two parties have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, which is both non-binding and non-exclusive, as the basis for their future co-operation.

  • FFastFill Plc Proposed Placing Of 15,384,615 Placing Shares At 6½ Pence Per Share

    Date 19/11/2008

    FFastFill plc, (AIM: FFA) a leading provider of Software as a Service (“SaaS”) solutions to the electronic financial community, announces today that KBC Peel Hunt has conditionally placed 15,384,615 new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Placing Shares") at a Placing Price of 6½ pence per share (the "Placing Price") to raise approximately £1 million (the "Placing"). The Placing Shares will represent 3.9 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company.

  • CESR Publishes A Feedback Statement Regarding Its Statement On Fair Value Measurement And Related Disclosures Of Financial Instruments In Illiquid Markets

    Date 19/11/2008

    Please click here to view the Feedback Statement.

  • HKEx Derivatives Market Transaction Survey Finds Increased Online Trading By Retail Investors

    Date 19/11/2008

    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx)'s Derivatives Market Transaction Survey 2007/08 (covering the period from July 2007 to June 2008) found that, driven by the increased dominance of stock options trading, the contribution of Exchange Participants' (EPs') principal trading to HKEx's derivatives (futures and options) market further increased, and retail investors' online trading grew strongly and accounted for nearly 40 per cent of all retail investor trading.