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HKEx Welcomes Government Re-appointment To Its Risk Management Committee

Date 27/08/2009

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) welcomes the Government's re-appointment of Keith Lui as a member of HKEx's Risk Management Committee (RMC). The re-appointment is for a term of three years with effect from 28 August 2009 (Friday) and was made under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.
Edited Transcript Of ASX FY 2009 Media Briefing

Date 27/08/2009

Peter Smith – Financial Times With IRESS Technologies, you have got a 20% stake, can you tell me again what’s the reason that you have got the stake and might you buy a bit more of it? Robert Elstone, Managing Director & CEO ASX Ltd: The reason we have got it, it pre-dates me, as the stake was taken 9 years ago so I can’t speak for my predecessors why it was taken. I think over the 9 years that ASX has held that investment from memory, is that
HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts

Date 27/08/2009

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced that with effect from the commencement of trading on Tuesday, 1 September 2009, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contracts will be as outlined in the table below. The adjustments are based on the clearing company's normal procedures and standard margining methodo
Deutsche Bank Lists First Money Market ETF On SGX

Date 27/08/2009

Deutsche Bank and Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) announced the launch today of Asia’s first money market ETF on SGX – the db x-trackers US Dollar Money Market ETF. db x-trackers is Deutsche Bank’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) business.
Agreement Reached Between SIX Exchange Regulation And Pelikan Holding Ltd

Date 27/08/2009

SIX Exchange Regulation has reached an agreement with Pelikan Holding Ltd regarding the latter’s breach of the Swiss GAAP FER accounting standards in its annual financial statements for 2008. The deficiencies identified by SIX Exchange Regulation relate to items reported incorrectly in the income statement and to incomplete and partly incorrect disclosures in the notes to the annual financial statements.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Issues Guidelines Of Election, Conducts Of Directors Of Listed Companies - Practical Rules For Due Diligence And Faithful Fulfillment Of Duties By Directors Are Defined

Date 27/08/2009

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) released, on August 25, the "SSE Guidelines of Election and Conducts of Directors of Listed Companies". With an aim to regulate the election and duty fulfillment conducts of the directors of listed companies, as well as to detail the requirements for their election qualifications and the procedures of their exercise of powers, the guidelines have finalized the basic standards for directors by working out practical rules in terms of due diligence and faithful
Institutional Investors Voice Opposition To Proposed Placement Agent Ban – Results Of Preqin’s Survey Of US Institutional Investors On SEC Proposal IA-2910

Date 27/08/2009

Preqin is today announcing the launch of a new research report undertaken in order to assess the potential impact of the proposed changes to the private equity industry that would be brought about by the introduction of SEC proposed rule release IA-2910 relating to the introduction of Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-5. This report can be viewed on the SEC website at the following address:
NASDAQ OMX And BM&FBOVESPA Enter Discussions

Date 26/08/2009

BM&FBOVESPA S.A. (BVMF3), subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 157 of Law number 6404/1976 and of CVM Instruction 358/2002, hereby inform that: (i) BM&FBOVESPA and NASDAQ OMX Group will initiate discussions, on an exclusive basis, with the purpose of establishing a possible strategic, commercial and technological partnership. (ii) The exclusivity shall be in effect through the next sixty (60) day period, during which BM&FBOVESPA shall not enter into si
NASDAQ OMX And BM&FBOVESPA Enter Discussions For Strategic, Commercial And Technological Partnership

Date 26/08/2009

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and BM&FBOVESPA announced today that the two exchange companies will initiate exclusive discussions for the next 60 days with the purpose of establishing a possible strategic, commercial and technological partnership.
Georgia Court Imposes Fines And Other Sanctions Against Atlanta-Based Saxon Financial Services Inc., Charged By The CFTC With Commodity Option Fraud

Date 26/08/2009

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it obtained more than $4.3 million in civil monetary penalties and equitable relief in an order against Saxon Financial Services Inc. (Saxon) of Atlanta, Ga., charged by the CFTC in 2007 with commodity option fraud.