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SEC Charges Former General Counsel Of McAfee, Inc. For Fraudulently Re-Pricing Option Grants

Date 28/02/2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Kent H. Roberts, the former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of McAfee, Inc., with securities fraud for wrongfully re-pricing McAfee stock option grants awarded to him and others in an effort to secretly increase the value of the grants. The Commission's complaint alleges that Roberts, secretly and without authorization, changed the grant date of a February 2000 grant made to him in order to take advantage of McAfee's then-declining
NYMEX Sets Daily Volume Record For Metals Futures On CME Globex®

Date 28/02/2007

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), announced today that it set daily volume records for gold and silver futures contracts on the CME Globex electronic trading platform yesterday.
CME Sets New Total Daily Volume Record Of 13.7 Million Contracts - Electronic Trading, Equity Index Contracts And Electronic Eurodollar Futures Also Hit Record Highs

Date 28/02/2007

CME, the world's largest and most diverse financial exchange, announced multiple volume records were reached at the exchange yesterday, including total daily volume of 13,719,685 futures and options traded*, of which a record 10,926,638 contracts were traded electronically on CME Globex,(R) representing 80 percent of the total volume.
SEC Chairman Names Jonathan Burks As Director Of Office Of Legislative And Intergovernmental Affairs

Date 28/02/2007

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that Jonathan W. Burks will join the Commission as Director of the newly designated Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
System Problem Caused Lag In Timely Calculation Of Dow Jones Industrial Average For 70 Minutes Yesterday - Normal Operation Expected Today

Date 28/02/2007

Dow Jones Indexes today explained that a system problem beginning at 1:50 pm yesterday amid unusually heavy volume caused the 70-minute lag in correctly calculating the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the subsequent downward spike in the reported index value when the problem was corrected at 3:00 pm.

In The Nearest Future, The Bank Of Russia Will Begin To Provide Collateral Credits Using The MICEX Trading System

Date 28/02/2007

The Bank of Russia and the MICEX Settlement House have signed an agreement of cooperation, under which the two organizations will interact in providing credits of the Bank of Russia to lending institutions. This will enable to organize, through the MICEX SH, the service of collateral crediting transactions concluded in accordance with the Statute of the Bank of Russia #236-P of 4 August 2003 “On the Order of Providing the Bank of Russia’s Credits to Lending Institutions, Covered by Collateral
ISE Announces Record Daily Trading Volume

Date 28/02/2007

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) announced that it set a new record daily trading volume of 5,531,875 equity and index options contracts on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. ISE is pleased to report that its highly reliable and scalable trading platform effectively handled almost one million more contracts than the previous record of 4,580,678 contracts, set on January 20, 2006.
Euroclear Bank Introduces Unlimited Collateral Re-Use Feature

Date 28/02/2007

Effective immediately, Euroclear Bank’s triparty collateral management clients can increase the liquidity of their securities collateral by re-using these securities to cover multiple exposures arising from repos, securities lending, derivatives or other collateralised transactions with different counterparties. Currently valued at over EUR 320 billion daily, client collateral administered by Euroclear Bank, as triparty agent, represents tremendous re-use potential as clients now have t
Latest ICMA Survey Shows Strong Growth In European Repo Market Over 2006

Date 28/02/2007

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) today released the results of its 12th semi-annual survey of the European repo market. The survey, which is effectively a snapshot of the volume of repo trades outstanding on December 13, 2006, shows market size at over EUR 6,430 billion (EUR 6.4 trillion), an annual increase of 14% over 2006, compared with an increase of 18% in 2005.
Toronto Stock Exchange Record Trading on February 27, 2008

Date 28/02/2007

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 was a record day of trading on Toronto Stock Exchange with 615,234 trades taking place. This surpassed the previous record set on November 1st, 2006 of 614,446.