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Corvil Secures USD 12 Million In New Funding - Vesbridge Partners Becomes Newest Corvil Investor

Date 10/07/2008

Corvil, the technology and market leader in latency management systems for trading network infrastructure, today announced that it had secured USD 12 million in a new round of funding. Vesbridge Partners joined existing investors ACT Ventures and APAX Partners, to lead the new round. Vesbridge’s Zenas Hutcheson has been named to Corvil’s Board of Directors.
ICE Executives Scheduled To Testify Before U.S. House Of Representatives Agriculture And Appropriations Committees

Date 10/07/2008

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global derivatives exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, issued the following summary statements in conjunction with the provision of written and oral testimony before the following committees being held on July 10 and July 11: (1) House Committee on Agriculture; and (2) House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.
Newly Launched Dow Jones Africa Titans 50 Index To Underlie Exchange-Traded Fund

Date 10/07/2008

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today launched the Dow Jones Africa Titans 50 Index, a pan-African index that measures the stock performance of 50 companies that are headquartered in or generate the majority of their revenues in Africa. Market participants have either direct or indirect exposure to the following 11 markets in Africa: Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia
Xtrakter: Repo Trading Decreases By 22.3% In Q2 08

Date 10/07/2008

Xtrakter, the market utility, announced today that TRAX the OTC matching system processed USD 11.5 trillion (EUR 7.3 trillion) nominal value of repo transactions during Q2 2008. TRAX is the only fully automated repo (repurchase agreements) matching system available in the capital markets today (www.xtrakter.com)
Malawi Stock Exchange Q2 Market Performance Report

Date 10/07/2008

Click here to download Malawi Stock Exchange's 2nd quarter Market Performance report.

Euroclear Announces Senior Management Changes

Date 10/07/2008

Euroclear will put in place the following senior management changes over the next few weeks. Effective 1 September, Tim May, currently Chief Executive Officer of Euroclear UK & Ireland (EUI), will become Chairman of EUI, while retaining his current roles as Executive Director of Euroclear SA/NV at group level and Chairman of EMXCo. Tim May will replace Pierre Francotte as EUI Chairman. Yannic Weber, currently Managing Director and head of the Commercial Division at Euroclear SA/NV will
UK’s Financial Services Authority: Former Broker Banned And Fined £16,000 For Dishonesty And Using High Pressure Sales Tactics

Date 10/07/2008

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned Mr Baljit Somal (Mr Somal), a former broker at Square Mile Securities Limited, and fined him £16,000 for selling high risk shares to customers without their consent and using unacceptable sales tactics.
CESR Publishes Data On Approved And Passported Prospectuses Between July 2007 And December 2007

Date 10/07/2008

CESR published in June 2007 its “Report on the supervisory functioning of the Prospectus Directive and Regulation” (CESR/07-225) that included some statistical data in relation to the number of prospectus approved and passported for the periods July 2004 to June 2005 and July 2005 to June 2006 (with quarterly disclosure). On 13 June 2008, CESR published the data for the period July 2006 to June 2007 (reported on a quarterly basis).
Deutsche Börse Group Successfully Provides Clients Access To Liquidity In Europe - Record Volumes For Eurex Repo And Clearstream Global Securities Financing In First Half Year - Strongest Growth In Secured Money Market Segment Euro GC Pooling

Date 10/07/2008

Eurex Repo and Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing services reported a successful first half of 2008. Euro GC Pooling in particular recorded extensive growth due to its link with Clearstream’s international liquidity pools. This integrated offer from Deutsche Börse Group simplifies and bundles collateralized liquidity management of securities financing in Europe, which is in considerable demand particularly with difficult and rapidly changing market conditions.
DGCX Daily Crude Oil Volumes Achieves Record New High

Date 10/07/2008

Total WTI volumes on Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) reached record new highs on Tuesday 8th July trading 3,727 contracts equivalent to a value of almost $513 million. This record surpasses previous WTI highs transacted on June 19th of 3,500 contracts by 6%.