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  • Key Figures SIX Swiss Exchange And Scoach Switzerland: Year 2012

    Date 03/01/2013

    Share prices on SIX Swiss Exchange rose strongly in the second half of the year in particular. The SMI blue chip index stood at 6‘822.4 points at the end of the year, closing at a record high since 2007; the same applies to the SLI Swiss Leader Index. The SBI Swiss Bond Index even ended the year at the highest recorded year-end value ever. In contrast, markedly less trading was conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland. Overall, trading volumes fell by 23.1% to CHF 892.6 billion and the number of trades by 21.2% to 31,549,599. This is due to the economic and regulatory uncertainties, whose effects were not only observed throughout Europe but virtually around the world.

  • CFTC Orders Mizuho Securities USA Inc. To Pay $175,000 To Settle CFTC Charges Of Secured Fund Deficiencies And Supervision Failures

    Date 03/01/2013

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and settling charges against Mizuho Securities USA Inc. (Mizuho) of New York, N.Y., for failing to provide timely notice to the CFTC of secured fund deficiencies in violation of CFTC regulation 1.12(h) and for failing to diligently supervise its employees in violation of regulation 166.3. Mizuho is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). The CFTC order requires Mizuho to pay a $175,000 civil monetary penalty and orders Mizuho to cease and desist from violating CFTC regulations, as charged.

  • Bursa Malaysia Implements A New Market Surveillance System From MilleniumIT

    Date 03/01/2013

    Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia”) replaced its existing market surveillance systems for its equity and derivatives markets with the Millennium SurveillanceTM System, effective 31 December 2012. 

  • Bermuda Stock Exchange Releases 2012 Year End Review Report

    Date 03/01/2013

    The Bermuda Stock Exchange ("BSX") reported today that, although the Bermuda domestic capital market continued to experience pressure as a result of global and domestic market conditions, BSX international listing business, and in particular the listing of Insurance Linked Securities, gained momentum for the BSX and Bermuda.

  • ICE Reports Record Futures Volume In 2012 On 10% ADV Growth

    Date 03/01/2013

    IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global markets and clearing houses, today reported futures volume for December 2012, the fourth quarter of 2012 and the full year 2012. ICE's December 2012 and fourth quarter of 2012 average daily volume (ADV) increased 1% and declined 1% compared to December 2011 and the fourth quarter of 2011, respectively. Total contract volume in 2012 reached 847 million contracts, up 10% from 2011. All prior period contract volumes have been adjusted to include the converted futures contracts, which previously traded as swaps in ICE's OTC markets.