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UK, USA And Germany Lead The Way In Intellectual Property

Date 19/05/2008

New research ranks 22 of the world's leading jurisdictions for intellectual property (IP). The Global Intellectual Property Index (GIPI), launched earlier this month by European law firm Taylor Wessing, and created by Z/Yen Group, presents a statistical comparison of how jurisdictions are viewed in terms of ‘IP competitiveness’. Jurisdictions are rated as places in which to obtain, exploit, enforce & attack the three main types of IP: trademarks, patents and copyright.
NASDAQ OMX Appoints EMCF To Handle Clearing For Its Pan-European Market

Date 19/05/2008

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it has selected European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF), a wholly-owned Fortis subsidiary, to deliver clearing services for the NASDAQ OMX Pan European Market.
MARKIT Announces New RED Licence For Buy-Side - Commercial Terms Will Support Industry Commitments Pledged To New York Fed

Date 19/05/2008

Markit, a leading provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trade processing, today announced a new freely available licence for the Markit Reference Entity Database (RED), aimed at smaller buy-side firms.
CME Group Announces Completion Of Combined CME/CBOT Trading Facility - Successful Floor Integration Marks Last Major Milestone In Merger Of Exchanges - On Track To Achieve $150 Million In Cost Synergies

Date 19/05/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced today that it has completed its last major integration milestone needed to deliver cost synergies associated with the July 12, 2007, merger of CME and CBOT. The company announced that today its trading floor migration is completed, combining all equity, foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity open outcry trading facilities at the historic Chicago Board of Trade building.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency Publishes The First Progress Report On Its Efforts Toward "Better Regulation"

Date 19/05/2008

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) today published the first progress report on its efforts toward “better regulation.”(PDF:150K) "Better regulation" refers to improving the quality of financial regulation and supervision in order to enhance its effectiveness, efficiency, consistency and transparency. Given the need to make Japan's financial markets more competitive, and in light of the current phase of Japan's financial sector w

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Lifting Of Extraordinary Clearing Margin For Kerosene

Date 19/05/2008

Based on Item 3.3.2 of the Regulations Governing Management of the Oil Market, since the final contract prices for all contract months (excluding contract months with no applicable price limit) have not reached the price limit for three consecutive business days, the Extraordinary Clearing Margin of JPY 67,500 for new positions in the Kerosene market, imposed on and after May 9, will be lifted on and after May 20.
HKEx Securities Market's Closing Auction Session Set For Implementation On 26 May 2008

Date 19/05/2008

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) said today (Monday) that the trading hours of its securities market will be extended 10 minutes to 16:10 on a normal trading day when the Closing Auction Session for the securities market commences on Monday, 26 May. In parallel with the change, the closing time for trading of stock index futures and options (SIFO) contracts will be extended from 16:15 to 16:30, except on the last trading day of the month.
Vienna Stock Exchange Launches The RTX MID Cap Index

Date 19/05/2008

The Vienna Stock Exchange today announces that as of 20 May 2008 it will be expanding its index range by including a new real-time Index, the RTX MID – Russian Traded Mid Cap Index. The RTX MID is a capitalization-weighted price index and is calculated in EUR, USD and RUB; it consists of the stocks with the liveliest trading volumes and highest capitalization listed on the MICEX, but not included in the RTX.
Euroclear Bank’s DerivManager Links With DTCC’s Deriv/SERV Trade Information Warehouse

Date 19/05/2008

Euroclear Bank has today launched a link between its DerivManager OTC derivatives service and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Trade Information Warehouse, a service offering of DTCC’s Deriv/SERV unit that currently covers over-the-counter (OTC) credit derivatives contracts. DerivManager aims to both minimise counterparty disputes involving trade valuation and optimise collateral usage to cover exposures arising from all types of OTC derivatives contracts.
HKEx: Appointment Of Listing Committee Members

Date 19/05/2008

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), announces the appointment of members to the Listing Committee of the Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) (together, the Listing Committee1).