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  • HKEx Employees' Share Award Scheme

    Date 19/12/2005

    Reference is made to the announcement dated 14 September 2005 relating to the adoption of the Employees' Share Award Scheme (Scheme) by the board of directors (Board) of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx). Pursuant to the Scheme adopted on 14 September 2005 (Adoption Date), the Board today, based on the closing price of $31.20 per share, resolved to award 960,000 Shares (Awarded Shares) to 139 eligible employees (Se

  • HKEx Announces New Appointment To Derivatives Market Consultative Panel

    Date 19/12/2005

    The Board of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has today (Monday) appointed Lim Wah Sai to the Derivatives Market Consultative Panel for a term up to 30 April 2006 to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Ricardo Honegger.

  • FORTS - Futures And Options On RTS Stock Exchange - Derivatives Market

    Date 19/12/2005

    For the week of December 12th, - December 16th, 2005, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures and Options on RTS) reached 26 billion rubles or 1.4 million contracts compared to 28.3 billion rubles and 1,58 million contracts the week before.

  • FishEx Chooses Cinetics Trading System For The World’s First Financial Marketplace For Fish

    Date 19/12/2005

    In November FishEx announced its plans to start the first financial marketplace for the trading of futures contracts on fish. FishEx recently signed an agreement with a well-known clearing house to clear products listed on FishEx products. Now the next step has been taken towards establishing the marketplace for trading fish futures; FishEx has agreed a contract with Cinetics to create an Internet based system tailor-made for fish futures trading.

  • First ETF Based On Fundamental Factors Selects FTSE RAFI Index

    Date 19/12/2005

    FTSE Group (“FTSE”) announced today that the FTSE RAFI 1000 Index has been selected by PowerShares Capital Management, as the underlying index for the first fundamental factor-based ETF for US investors. The ETF, PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 Portfolio, launches today and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:PRF).

  • CBOT Pilot Program - Algorithm In 2 Year Treasury Futures

    Date 19/12/2005

    The CBOT Board of Directors has approved on a pilot basis a modification to the current algorithm in outright Two-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures to Priority Pro-Rata with minimum volume and maximum volume cap requirements from the current Price/Time algorithm. The decision to implement this change was based on feedback from various Members and Member Firms that included a broad-based representation of market participants. This change will be implemented effective January 2, 2006 (trade date J

  • CBOT And SGX Establish Joint Venture To Launch An Electronic Commodities Derivatives Exchange

    Date 19/12/2005

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced their agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture company called the Joint Asian Derivatives Pte. Ltd.

  • American Stock Exchange Announces New Listed Company Council

    Date 19/12/2005

    The American Stock Exchange (Amex) announced today that it has formed a listed company council to advise the Amex Board of Governors and management on issues and concerns affecting small and mid-cap companies.

  • New Iranian Capital Market Law

    Date 18/12/2005

    The new Iranian Capital Market Law was passed in 16 November 2005 by the lawmakers and will be operational in a near future.

  • Warsaw Stock Exchange: Cessation Of The NIF Index

    Date 16/12/2005

    Following the end of the main part of the National Investment Funds programme, the Warsaw Stock Exchange decided on cessation of the NIF index. The last day of calculation and publication of the index is 30th December, 2005.