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AMF Seeks Advanced Market Analysis Platform

Date 15/05/2013

The Autorité des marchés financiers (“AMF”), the regulatory and oversight body for Québec's financial sector, today released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking information from potential suppliers of  components for a Market Analysis Platform (MAP) or a Market Analysis Platform in its entirety.

FESE European Equity Market Report – April 2013 Figures

Date 15/05/2013

The European Equity Market Report is a piece of analysis that allows for an accurate comparison of trading statistics across European trading venues.

SEC Charges China-Based Executives In Scheme To Overstate Revenues And Divert Money For Personal Use

Date 15/05/2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged husband-and-wife executives at a China-based company with engaging in a scheme to overstate the company’s revenues and divert proceeds from a securities offering for their personal use.

NYSE Euronext Announces Date For Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Release And Conference Call

Date 15/05/2013

NYSE Euronext (NYX) will announce earnings for the second quarter 2013 before the market opens on Tuesday, July 30, 2013.  A news release will be issued at approximately 2:30 a.m. (New York) / 8:30 a.m. (Paris) and a conference call with remarks by NYSE Euronext senior management will begin at 8:00 a.m. (New York) / 2:00 p.m. (Paris).  A presentation will be referenced during the call and available on our website at http://www.nyseeuronext.com/ir.

Trading Technologies To Connect To NASDAQ OMX’s New NLX Exchange

Date 15/05/2013

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) announced today that TT will connect its X_TRADER® platform and related products to NASDAQ OMX NLX (NLX), a new London-based derivatives trading market.

Eris Exchange Announces A Single Day Trading Volume Record

Date 15/05/2013

Eris Exchange, a US-based futures exchange offering swap futures as a capital-efficient alternative to traditional OTC interest rate swaps, today announced that on May 10, 2013, market participants traded a record $1.27 billion in notional value. The volume record is equivalent to 12,700 contracts, adjusting for the impending contract size change to $100,000 notional. This change will take effect June 3, 2013, pending all relevant CFTC regulatory review periods.

Michael S. Gibson, Director, Federal Reserve Division Of Banking Supervision And Regulation - Cross-Border Resolution - Before The Subcommittee On National Security And International Trade And Finance, Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affair, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. , May 15, 2013

Date 15/05/2013

Chairman Warner, Ranking Member Kirk, and other members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate the opportunity to testify today on the challenges to achieving an orderly cross-border resolution of a failed systemic financial firm. In my remarks, I would like to first reflect on the improvements that have been made in the last few years in the underlying strength and resiliency of the largest U.S. banking firms, and then turn to a discussion of what has been accomplished and what remains to be accomplished in facilitating a cross-border resolution.

Warsaw Stock Exchange Consults The Market On Replacement Of WIG20 With WIG5 And WIG30

Date 15/05/2013

• The WSE has initiated consultations on modification of the index of major companies.
• The Exchange has proposed to replace WIG20 with WIG5 and WIG30.
• WIG30 is proposed as an index tracking the performance of major companies while WIG5 is to be the underlying of new derivatives.

China's First Cross Border Exchange Traded Fund -- The Guotai NASDAQ-100 ETF -- Begins Trading On The Shanghai Stock Exchange - New Listing Provides Chinese Investors Access To U.S. Securities For First Time

Date 15/05/2013

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today announced that China's first cross-border exchange-traded fund (ETF), based on the NASDAQ-100 Index^®, has begun trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The Guotai NASDAQ-100 Exchange-Traded Fund (Symbol: 513100), sponsored by Guotai Asset Management, was created so that investors in China could easily invest in the largest and most liquid companies traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market. The listing of this product marks the first exchange-traded fund in China to provide access to the U.S. market.

NYSE Technologies Names Varghese Thomas As Global Head Of Infrastructure Solutions - Leading Hosting, Network And Managed Service Offerings

Date 15/05/2013

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the appointment of Varghese Thomas as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure Solutions.  In this role, Mr. Thomas will be responsible for the development and management of a leading financial hosting, network and managed services business, which provides secure solutions for the global financial services community.  The business supports customers with new innovations such as FIX as a Service, Time Series as a Service and other core managed solutions opportunities designed to lower costs and create business efficiencies.  Based in New York, Mr. Thomas will work in close collaboration with NYSE Technologies’ Content and Liquidity Solutions teams reporting to COO, Terry Roche.