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UK's Financial Services Authority: Insider Dealers Ordered To Pay £1.5m In Confiscation

Date 20/08/2012

In a case brought by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and heard at Southwark Crown Court, Confiscation Orders (the Orders) totalling £1,534,000 were made today against Christian Littlewood and Angie Littlewood. They were each ordered to pay £767,000 representing the benefit obtained by each of them from insider dealing.

Companies On Thai Alternative Bourse Post Robust Profits In H1/2012 - H1 Net Profit Of Mai-Listed Firms Up 19 Pct Year-On-Year - Sales Up 18 Pct Year-On-Year; Gross Profit Margins At 18.8 Pct

Date 20/08/2012

Companies listed on the Market for Alternative Investment (mai), under The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) group, reported a 18.9 percent increase in net profit to THB 2.64 billion (approx. USD 82.5 million) in the first six months of 2012, mainly supported by costs control.

Marex Spectron Appoints New Precious Metals Sales Trader In London

Date 20/08/2012

Marex Spectron today announced the appointment of Jack Allen as a senior Precious Metals Sales Trader in London as part of the firm’s strategy to further build its Precious Metals product offering. Jack’s appointment is effective immediately and he reports directly to David Govett, Global Head of Precious Metals.

BrokerTec And MTS To Develop Euro Repo Index Series

Date 20/08/2012

BrokerTec, ICAP’s global electronic fixed income trading platform and MTS, a leading fixed income trading venue in Europe, which is majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group, are launching a daily repo index series for the sovereign bond markets of the main eurozone countries. The series will include an index for each of the sovereign bond markets of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and Finland and will be launched in Q4 2012.

Pfalzwerke AG Selects Trayport®’s GlobalVision Trading GatewaySM, Automated Trading Enginesm And Implied Price Calculatorsm Solutions To Optimise Trading

Date 20/08/2012

Trayport, a leading provider of energy trading solutions to  traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide today announced that Pfalzwerke AG are now using Trayport’s GlobalVison Trading Gateway, Automated Trading EngineSM (“AT”) and Implied Price CalculatorSM (“IPC”) solutions for energy trading.

CME Group Applies To Create An Exchange In The United Kingdom

Date 20/08/2012

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today it is in the process of applying to the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority (FSA) to create aLondon-based derivatives exchange. Pending regulatory approval as a Recognized Investment Exchange, CME Europe Ltd will initially begin trading foreign exchange futures products and is expected to launch mid-2013.

Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Hontex’s Independent Shareholders Approve Share Repurchase Scheme

Date 20/08/2012

Independent shareholders of Hontex International Holdings Company Limited (Hontex) today overwhelmingly approved the share repurchase scheme at an extraordinary general meeting following Hontex’s admission that its IPO prospectus contained materially false and misleading information.

Osaka Securities Exchange: Approval Of Application To Withdraw Trading Qualifications: Instinet Japan Limited

Date 20/08/2012

OSE has approved the withdrawal of Trading Qualifications on August 20, 2012, as follows:

Withdrawal of Trading Qualifications:

Shenzhen Stock Exchange: SINO Real Estate Index Is Launched Today

Date 20/08/2012

Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. declared on August 20, 2012 to launch SINO Real Estate Index, which is designed to reflect the return of real estate stocks, providing investment targets in industry segments, propelling the development of index fund products. SINO Real Estate Index (Code: 399393, Abbreviation: SINO Real Estate) takes December 31, 2004 as base day, and 1000 points as base point. 

Japan's Financial Services Agency: Comments On Proposed CFTC Cross-Border Releases On Swap Regulations

Date 20/08/2012

The Financial Services Agency and the Bank of Japan sent a comment letter on August 13, 2012 to the CFTC regarding the proposed CFTC cross-border releases on swap regulations issued for public comment.