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  • Appointment Of Paul Chow As The Chief Executive Of HKEx

    Date 10/04/2003

    The board of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced today (Thursday) the appointment of Paul Chow as the chief executive of HKEx. Mr Chow will join HKEx on 1 May 2003. As provided under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO), Mr Chow will also be an ex-officio member of the board.

  • Tokyo Stock Exchange: Improving The Condition Of Shareholder Voting And Preserving The

    Date 09/04/2003

    Improving the Condition of Shareholder Voting TSE has been a driving force in advancing the condition of shareholder voting at shareholders meetings in Japan. Recently, demands from a wide variety of shareholders - foreigners, institutional investors, and individual investors - have grown greater for reforming the condition of shareholder voting in Japanese companies, and with a view to increasing the vitality of the securities market TSE has made such reform an issue of utmost impor

  • The MICEX Exchange Council Adopts A New Version Of The Rules Of Purchase And Sale Of Foreign Currency In The UTS, Which Extends The UTS' Time And Introduces A New Instrument

    Date 09/04/2003

    The MICEX Exchange Council adopted on April 4, 2003, a new version of the Rules of purchase and sale of foreign currency in the Unified Trading Session of interbank currency exchanges (the UTS Rules) and documents amending the legal base of the MICEX currency market. Beginning from the middle of April, 2003, the UTS participants will be able to trade in a new instrument - "dollar/ruble" with tomorrow settlements (?+1). The time of the UTS will be 10:00 - 16:45 (now 10:00 - 11:30).

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

    Date 09/04/2003

    Pursuant to quarterly rebalancing methodology, Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index effective after the close of trading on Thursday, April 17, 2003. As of the close of trading on Tuesday, April 8, 2003, the index was comprised of 497 companies. A total of 62 companies will be removed from the index and 88 new companies will be added. The revised index will therefore be made up of 523 companies.

  • Settlement Date For Government Bonds Traded On The Korea Stock Exchange Market To Be Changed From T+0 To T+1

    Date 09/04/2003

    The Korea Stock Exchange (KSE) announced that the settlement date for bonds on its Government Bonds Market (GBM) would be changed from the current T+0 to T+1, effective on June 1, 2003. The GBM, formerly known as the Inter-Dealer Market, is a wholesale market where specific benchmark issues such as Korean Treasury Bonds, Foreign Exchange Bonds, Monetary Stabilization Bonds and Deposit Insurance Fund Bonds are traded. It should be noted that the settlement date (T+0) for bonds traded on other m