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Eugene Fama Selected To Receive The 2007 CME Fred Arditti Award - Helped Develop What Many Consider To Be The Benchmark For Asset Allocation Decisions

Date 16/04/2007

The CME Center for Innovation (CFI) today announced that Eugene Fama, the Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, will be the 2007 recipient of the CME Fred Arditti Innovation Award. CME, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, established the CFI in 2003 to identify, foster and showcase examples of significant innovation and creative thinking pertaining to markets, commerce and financial servi
Euroclear Creates UK Funds Liaison Group

Date 16/04/2007

Euroclear and EMXCo have formed a Funds Liaison Group, comprising senior executives from across the fund industry, to provide a forum for market consultation on future order-routing and settlement solutions for UK investment funds.
NYMEX Partners With UX Consulting To Offer Uranium Futures Contracts

Date 16/04/2007

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), the world's largest physical commodity exchange, today signed a 10–year agreement with the Ux Consulting Company, LLC (UxC), the global uranium pricing index and information leader, to introduce on and off-exchange traded uranium futures products on the CME Globex® and NYMEX ClearPort® electronic platforms on May 6 for trade date May 7.
Statement Of The SGX Board

Date 16/04/2007

In the light of media speculation over the relationship of SGX's CEO, Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, with PrimeFounders Inc (PFI) Group, SGX wishes to make the following points:
NYBOT Softs Daily Electronic Volume Record Exceeds 155,000 Contracts

Date 16/04/2007

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced the fourth daily electronic trading record for the week of April 9 at the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT). On Friday, April 13, 155,781 futures contracts were traded electronically. This record replaces the previous high on Thursday, April 12, of 152,598 contracts.

Sydbank A/S Extends Its Membership Of The Nordic Exchange

Date 16/04/2007

Sydbank A/S will become a member of the Helsinki Stock Exchange as of Tuesday, April 17. They will thereby gain trading access to the Finnish equity market.
RTS Index Has Set A New Record

Date 16/04/2007

During a trading session on April 13, 2007 RTS Index reached its new historical maximum and made 2001,59 points. It is an absolute record.
HKEx: Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures' First-day Trading Volume

Date 16/04/2007

Trading volume of Hang Seng China H-Financials Index (HFI) futures, which were introduced today, was 183 contracts (181 April contracts and two May contracts).
Dow Jones And Ravenpack Launch Analytic Software That Transforms News Into Data For Quantitative Analysis And Algorithmic Trading - Hosted “Dow Jones News Analytics” Enables Quick Design And Deployment Of News-Enabled Models

Date 16/04/2007

Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) today introduced Dow Jones News Analytics, a secure, Web-based software application that enables hedge funds and banks to quickly and cost-effectively build news-oriented quantitative models for algorithmic trading. The application, developed in partnership with RavenPack, an analytics consultancy, works with Dow Jones’s real-time feed and continuously updated 20-year news archive, and can both present results graphically on a screen and feed them into a firm's
NCDEX Launches Futures Trading In Polymers

Date 16/04/2007

The National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd (NCDEX) today launched trading in futures contract in polymers to help market participants’ – producers, processors, and distributors/ traders – hedge against volatility in prices. Trading has commenced in three polymer products – Polypropylene (PP), Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC).