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HKEx On-Floor & Off-Floor Trading Statistics For January 2013

Date 06/02/2013

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor

Vienna Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics - January 2013

Date 06/02/2013

Please click here to download Vienna Stock Exchange's monthly statistics for January 2013.

HKEx Announces Senior Appointment

Date 06/02/2013

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has appointed London Metal Exchange’s Liz Milan to its new position of Head of Asia Commodities with immediate effect.

HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Sinopec Corp Futures

Date 06/02/2013

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced that with effect from the commencement of trading on Friday, 8 February 2013, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contract will be as outlined in the table below.  The adjustments are based on the clearing company’s normal procedures and standard margining methodology.

TAIFEX And Eurex Agree On Strategic Alliance To Cooperate In Derivatives Trading - Eurex To Launch Contracts Based On Taiwan’s Main Index TAIEX In Taiwanese After Hours - TAIFEX To Extend Global Reach Of Its Main Index Options And Index Futures Contracts

Date 06/02/2013

TAIFEX, the Taiwan Futures Exchange, and Eurex Exchange, the international derivatives marketplace, announced an extensive product cooperation to trade and clear derivatives based on the TAIEX index, one of the most heavily traded Asian equity indexes. A Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed today by Dr. Tony Fan, Chairman TAIFEX, and Andreas Preuss, CEO Eurex, in Taipei, Taiwan. The LoI foresees to establish a link between both marketplaces. As a first step, the partners plan to list TAIEX options and TAIEX futures as daily expiring futures on Eurex Exchange in Q4 2013.

Record Monthly Volume Of 1.1 Million Contracts Gives Dubai Gold And Commodities Exchange A Robust Start To 2013

Date 06/02/2013

• Monthly volumes totaling 1,108,614 contracts, valued at $ 43.55 billion
• Indian Rupee futures records highest ever monthly volume of 982,358 contracts
• Highest ever volume daily value of contracts at  $2.07 billion per day

Tokyo Commodity Exchange Gold Renews All-Time High For 5 Consecutive Days - Advanced Prices For Other Commodities Increase Volume

Date 06/02/2013

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc, announced that its December 2013 Gold futures contract (most active/back contract month) temporarily reached 5,073 yen per gram during today’s session renewing the highest price recorded since the listing of gold futures contract at TOCOM on March 23, 1982 for the five consecutive trading days.

Euroclear Bank’s Service For Russian OFZs To Start On 7 February

Date 06/02/2013

Euroclear Bank’s post-trade services for Russian OFZs, one of the most actively traded classes of Russian government bonds, will commence on 7 February 2013.  Via Euroclear Bank’s account with Russia’s central securities depository – National Settlement Depository (NSD) – all of the major international firms trading OFZs will be able to settle those trades and deposit their OFZ positions with Euroclear Bank. All Russian regulatory and operational clarifications have been received. 

HKMEx Adds Zhujiang International Futures As Broking Member - Second Exchange Membership Addition In 2013 As HKMEx Forges Ahead In Building China’s Global Marketplace

Date 06/02/2013

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx), China’s global marketplace, announces today the addition of Zhujiang International Futures Company Limited as a broking member.

Dalian Commodity Exchange: Accelerating The Development And Improvement Of Farm Produce Futures Market And Better Serving Agriculture, Farmers And Rural Areas

Date 06/02/2013

The Central No.1 document just issued this year proposed “strengthening the construction of farm produce futures market, properly increasing new varieties of bulk farm produce futures and building farm produce pricing and trading center with certain influence at home and abroad.” About this proposal the relevant director at DCE said futures market, as an important part of modern market system, plays a bigger role in guiding production, stabilizing markets, and hedging against risks, and farm produce futures markets have good prospects. He also said DCE will actively follow the requirements of the Central No.1 document of the Central Committee of CPC, and accelerate and improve farm produce futures markets and better serve agriculture, farmers and rural areas from the three aspects——innovating and enriching the varieties of farm produce futures, improving the rules on the contracts of launched agricultural product varieties and continuing to deepening and innovating industrial services.