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Portugal’s INTERBOLSA, In The Forefront Of European Post-Trade Industry Transformation, Will Use Swift’s Value Added Network To Connect To T2S - SWIFT’s Reliability, Long-Term Commitment And Competitive Pricing For T2S drive INTERBOLSA’s Choice

Date 29/05/2013

SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that INTERBOLSA in Portugal will use SWIFT’s Value Added Network (VAN) solution plus integration tools to connect to T2S.

Thai Bourse Helps Listed Companies Prepare For Sustainable Investment Trend

Date 29/05/2013

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) joining with the Government Provident Fund (GPF), RobecoSAM AG, S&P Dow Jones, Mercer and MSCI hosted a seminar titled “Sustainability Investment: Time for Benchmarking” to support listed, securities and asset management companies to prepare for investment trends focused on sustainable business development. Guest speakers having experience in working with mutual funds and institutional investors from around the world shared their points of view at the seminar.

JSE Cuts Fees For Interest Rate And Currency Derivatives

Date 29/05/2013

In a bid to increase liquidity and boost trading volumes, the JSE will reduce fees for both interest rate and currency derivatives effective 1 July 2013.

SGX Welcomes Asian Pay Television Trust To Mainboard

Date 29/05/2013

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed the listing of Asian Pay Television Trust (APTT) on Mainboard, under the stock code of “S7OU”.

UBS Goes Live Globally On FXSpotStream As The 8th Liquidity Provider And Commences Client Trading

Date 29/05/2013

FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that UBS is now live as a liquidity provider bank to FXSpotStream’s price aggregation service from FXSpotStream’s sites in New York, London and Tokyo and client trading with UBS via the service has commenced. UBS is the 8th bank available to clients connected to FXSpotStream’s service. UBS adds to the liquidity available from FXSpotStream’s existing liquidity providers, which include BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, Commerzbank AG, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. The majority of LiquidityMatch shareholders are also liquidity providing banks of FXSpotStream.

BAE Systems Detica Announces Winner Of Its Education In The Community Competition At Awards Ceremony In Dublin

Date 29/05/2013

BAE Systems Detica today announces the winner of its Education in the Community schools competition in an awards ceremony that took place in Dublin on Friday 24 May. The students from O’Connells school were awarded 1st place and each received prizes worth over €500.  All entrants will be eligible for college scholarship money totalling €15,000 to be awarded to outstanding contributors at a later date.

Regulatory Changes Of Shanghai Stock Exchange In Concepts, Efficiency, Transparency

Date 29/05/2013

On May 24, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) held a news briefing to announce its future trends of self-regulation. Vice President Xu Ming of the SSE said that in the future the SSE will do a good job in further transforming regulatory concepts, improving regulatory efficiency, and stepping up disclosure in regulation, while cracking down on the alleged violations of laws and regulations on the securities market in a bid to further establish the regulatory authority.

STOXX Changes Composition Of Benchmark Indices - Results Of The Second Regular Quarterly Review To Be Effective On June 24, 2013

Date 28/05/2013

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the new composition of the STOXX Benchmark and their sub- and sector indices, among them the STOXX Europe 600 Index, STOXX North America 600 Index and STOXX Asia/Pacific 600 Index.

Federal Reserve Bank: Minutes Of The Board's Discount Rates Meetings From April 8 And April 29, 2013

Date 28/05/2013

The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings of April 8 and April 29, 2013.

SIFMA Statement On SEC Nominations

Date 28/05/2013

IFMA today released the following statement from CEO Judd A. Gregg on the recent nominations of two SEC Commissioners:

"President Obama has made excellent choices in nominating Kara Stein and Michael Piwowar to be Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission. These are two smart, thoughtful and talented people who will certainly contribute greatly to the SEC's mission of protecting the American public and investors and enhancing America's capital markets.  It was a pleasure to work with them in the Senate.  Prompt confirmation by the Senate would be good for the country and for the economy."