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UK's Financial Services Authority Puts Forward Options For Improving Transparency In Short Selling

Date 22/10/2002

The FSA yesterday published a discussion paper seeking views on possible options for increased disclosure of short selling and exploring whether improvements to the settlement regime are necessary.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Income Trust Index

Date 22/10/2002

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index change effective after the close of business on Wednesday, October 23, 2002: The relative weight of Atlas Cold Storage Income Trust (TSX: FZR.UN) will increase by approximately 0.37% in the S&P/TSX Canadian Income Trust Index. The relative weight change reflects an adjustment to the float trust units of the income trust due to issuance of new units.
Singapore Exchange: Migration Of CLOB Malaysian Securities

Date 22/10/2002

Investors with Clob Malaysian ("Clob") securities in CDP's nominee account with the Malaysian Central Depository ("MCD") will soon receive a Form of Authorisation to transfer their Clob securities to their own Central Depository System ("CDS") account with MCD. The transfer will be staggered over 9 months, from 31 Dec 2002 to 29 Sep 2003. An administrative fee is payable to Malaysia's Securities Clearing Automated Network Services ("SCANS") for effecting the transfer.
Radianz Selected By Boston Stock Exchange To Provide IP Network - RadianzNet Links BSE's Beacon Trading System To Global Financial Community

Date 22/10/2002

Radianz today announced an agreement with the Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) to provide Internet Protocol (IP) network connectivity to BEACON, the BSE's fully integrated communications, order-routing and trading system. Radianz's global financial extranet, RadianzNet, will enable the BSE to link an extended network of financial institutions worldwide.
Nymex Tops The $1 Billion Mark In Over-The-Counter Clearing Activity

Date 22/10/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it has cleared more than $1.1 billion worth of over-the-counter (OTC) deals in natural gas and electricity, equivalent to 294 trillion British thermal units of natural gas and 118,400 megawatt hours of electricity.

London Stock Exchange Implements Teradata Active Data Warehouse To Provide Real-Time Market Intelligence Services And Exploit Historical Data

Date 22/10/2002

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), today announced that London Stock Exchange plc will deploy a Teradata real-time data warehouse as part of its plans to increase the depth and speed of the financial market intelligence services it delivers. The Teradata solution will be implemented for the exchange by Accenture, the exchange's system integration partner.
Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority: Offshore Financial Centres To Continue To Enhance Competitiveness

Date 22/10/2002

Offshore financial centres are urged to continue to enhance competitiveness in managing present challenges facing the industry.
Kansas City Board Of Trade Sets New Exchange Annual Volume Record

Date 22/10/2002

Trading activity Monday at the Kansas City Board of Trade pushed 2002 exchange year-to-date trading volume past the previous annual record, capitalizing on a year of active volume in wheat futures and wheat options trading. Year-to-date volume at the KCBT through Monday was 2,664,746 contracts, surpassing the previous annual record of 2,664,669 contracts set in 2000. More than two months remain for the exchange to build on the new annual record.
Jukka Ruuska, President And CEO Of HEX Group: Competitive Advantage Through Regulation And Taxation

Date 22/10/2002

Highlights of Mr. Jukka Ruuska´s speech at the 90th Anniversary seminar of Helsinki Exchanges: There has been a securities exchange in Finland for almost the entire 20th century. The Helsinki Stock Exchange established in 1912, however, was quite a different from the present Helsinki Exchanges of the HEX Group. The methods and procedures of operation remained unchanged for a long time until the 1980s saw the start of a strategic revolution that turned a local operator of common functions
Iceland Stock Exchange Responds To Criticism Regarding Its Surveillance Function Concerning Annual Accounts And Interim Statements

Date 22/10/2002

Aggressive Accounting Discussions on accounting practices have been the centre of considerable media attention recently. And not without good reason, in view of what has been happening in this field, not least in the US. This focus on accounting practices should be welcomed, since there is a great deal at stake for the public, corporations and even the economy in general. The Icelandic daily Morgunbladid deserves special mention here, as the paper has provided detailed and inform