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HKEx To Introduce Three New Stock Option Classes And Stock Futures Contracts

Date 23/09/2005

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce Bank of Communications Company Limited, China Netcom Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited and Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China Limited futures and options on 7 November 2005, Monday.

HKEx Exchange Participants Statistics - Stock Exchange Participants' Market Share Report

Date 23/09/2005

Stock Exchange Participants' Market Share Report Updated: 23 September 2005

General Counsel Patrick J. McCarty To Leave Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Date 23/09/2005

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Reuben Jeffery III announced today that CFTC General Counsel Patrick J. McCarty is stepping down as General Counsel October 1st and leaving the Commission by the end of the year.

FTSE Group Exhibiting At Green Canary Day

Date 23/09/2005

FTSE Group (FTSE), the global index provider and a new tenant of Canary Wharf, will be exhibiting at the 4th Green Canary Day on Tuesday 27th September. Green Canary day is an event for Canary Wharf Group and its tenants to demonstrate their environmental credentials, and will allow FTSE to showcase its own CSR business practices and highlight the FTSE4Good index series, its equity index of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards.

FISD to Present “Lifetime Achievement Award” To the Financial Services Industry’s Most Outstanding Leader - FISD Members To Vote for Winner; With The Award Presented At The World Financial Information Conference (WFIC), Rome, Oct. 12

Date 23/09/2005

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has established a “Lifetime Achievement Award” to recognize the individual whose drive, ideas and work have had the most positive impact on the financial information industry during the past 15 years.

Exchange Sets Record For NYMEX Division Seat Sale

Date 23/09/2005

A seat on the NYMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., sold today for a record $2,800,000, surpassing the $2,750,000 record sale set on August 17.
EEX Physical Futures Help To Avoid Undulation In Reporting Results – EEX Supports By Reporting - Fourth Accounting Workshop: Experts From Pricewaterhousecoopers And Participants Confirm The Applicability Of “Own Use Exemption” According To IAS 39

Date 23/09/2005

European Energy Exchange (EEX) physical Futures may lead to the application of the “own use exemption” according to IAS 39. Due to this “own use exemption”, Futures are not balanced as derivatives and they do not have to be evaluated according to market value. This was confirmed by accounting experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), EEX and workshop participants during the fourth accounting workshop in Leipzig.
Component Change Made To Dow Jones China Indexes - Changes Are A Result Of A Regular Quarterly Review Of The Index

Date 23/09/2005

Dow Jones Indexes today announced the results of the third regular quarterly review in 2005 for Dow Jones China Indexes (Dow-China Indexes). The component changes in the Dow Jones China 88 (Dow-China 88), Dow Jones China Total Market (Dow-China Total Market), Dow Jones Shanghai (Dow-Shanghai), Dow Jones Shenzhen (Dow-Shenzhen) Index, and Dow Jones CBN China 600 Index will be effective on October 10, 2005.
CME, Standard & Poor's Announce Extension Of Exclusive License for S&P Index Futures Contracts - Organizations Mark 25-Year Association By Extending Exclusive Agreement Through 2016, With Another Non-Exclusive Year in 2017

Date 23/09/2005

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME), the largest and most diverse financial exchange, and Standard & Poor's, the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data, today announced an extension of their existing agreement that provides CME with exclusive rights to offer futures and options on futures contracts on the S&P 500(R) Index, the investment industry's leading benchmark for measuring portfolio performance, and other
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services - Financial Services In Europe Today - Irish Association Of Investment Managers, Dublin, 22 September 2005

Date 23/09/2005

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and thank you for inviting me this evening. It is nice to see so many old friends as well as new faces, and good to see you all in such good heart. I know your industry has faced some significant challenges here in recent years. It hasn’t been all plain sailing. But the overall story of investment management in Ireland has been a good one. It is an industry in which this country can, I am certain, strengthen its competitive advantages with the right regula