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CME Appoints Jeffrey P. Kilinski As Director, Interest Rate Products To Grow Electronic Interest Rate Options Volume

Date 13/04/2005

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, announced today it has appointed Jeffrey P. Kilinski as Director, Interest Rate Products. Kilinski, who has over 15 years of financial services experience specializing in interest rate futures and options positions for Lehman Brothers and J.P. Morgan Futures, Inc., will work with the CME Interest Rate Products Team to drive interest rate options volume growth on the CME® electronic Enhanced Options System. Kilinski will report to Robin Ross, Managing Dir
CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee To Meet Thursday, April 28, 2005

Date 13/04/2005

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) will meet on Thursday, April 28, 2005, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Commission’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, N.W., in the first-floor hearing room. The meeting is open to the public.
CBOT April 13, 2005 Treasury Conversion Factors

Date 13/04/2005

The attached conversion factor tables for the CBOT U.S. Treasury Bond and Note futures complex have been revised to include conversion factors for the following government security that was auctioned on April 13 by the U.S. Treasury Department: 1.) 4s of April 2010 (i.e., a new 5-year note). This 5-year note will be eligible for delivery into the CBOT 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures contract beginning with the June 2005 expiry.
As Of April 18th, 2005, Seven New Stock Futures Will Be Traded On The Derivatives Market Of Borsa Italiana

Date 13/04/2005

On Monday April the 18th 2005, Borsa Italiana’s IDEM market will launch seven new IDEM stock futures bringing the total number of stock futures traded on the IDEM market up to 34. The underlying shares for the new stock futures contracts are: Aem, Alleanza Assicurazioni, Autogrill, Bulgari, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, Finmeccanica and Luxottica Group. Since the start of the new year, the IDEM market has launched a total of 12 new stock futures contracts.
Voting Results At The 2005 Annual General Meeting Of Hong Kong Exchanges And Clearing Limited (HKex) And Changes Of Directors

Date 12/04/2005

VOTING RESULTS AT THE 2005 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)

Tokyo Stock Exchange Mid-Term Management Plan (For FY2005 To FY2007)

Date 12/04/2005

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) has published its Mid-term Management Plan for the next three years beginning April 2005.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 12/04/2005

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes effective after the close of business on Friday, April 15, 2005: On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, the shareholders of Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. (TSX:WRM) approved the completion of the plan of arrangement with Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G). As a result, pending court approval on Thursday, April 14, 2005, Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX SmallC
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 12/04/2005

On Monday, April 4, 2005, a press release from Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Services announced the results of the annual review of GICS and the changes that would affect S&P/TSX Canadian indices. One of the changes involved the movement of Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX:FDG.UN) into the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Trust Index under the new GICS code 10102050 – Coal & Consumable Fuels. Upon review, S&P and MSCI have decided that Fording Canadian Coal Trust will not change classification and will
SGX FY2005 Third Quarter Financial Results Improve Over The Previous Quarter

Date 12/04/2005

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) today announces moderately improved third quarter financial results for the financial year 2005 (3Q FY2005) compared with 2Q FY2005.
SEC Institues Enforcement Action Against 20 Former New York Stock Exchange Specialists Alleging Pervasive Course Of Fraudulent Trading - Respondents Include Two Former Ceos Of Spear Leeds & Kellogg Specialists And Four Former Members Of Van Der Moolen Spe

Date 12/04/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission today instituted administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against 20 former New York Stock Exchange specialists for fraudulent and other improper trading practices. In the Order Instituting Proceedings, the Division of Enforcement alleges that between 1999 and mid-2003 these specialists pervasively executed proprietary orders for their firms' proprietary accounts ahead of executable public customer or "agency" orders that were placed through the NYS