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Moscow Exchange: Final Settlement Prices Determined For Oil Futures Contracts

Date 15/03/2013

On March 15, 2013 settlement prices for March futures contracts on BRENT Oil futures and URALS Oil were determined as follows:

for BR-03.13 – 109.38 USD/bbl;

for UR-03.13 – 106.93 USD/bbl.

Treasury International Capital Data For January

Date 15/03/2013

From Our Man In Boca, Tom Groenfeldt: Asia’s Booming Middle Class Will Require More From Exchanges

Date 15/03/2013

Asia is set to boom with 525 million people in the middle class now and 1.7 billion expected to enter it within a few years. 

On 25 March Moscow Exchange Launches Trading With Settlement On T+2 For 15 Stocks And All Sovereign Bonds

Date 15/03/2013

With the T+2 settlement cycle launched at the Exchange the Main T+2 Trading Mode and the Mode for Negotiated Trades with the CCP will be available for its trading members. To be admitted to trading on the T+2 market they will have to pay a contribution to the Guarantee fund. Initially, until 25 March, the market participants will be required to contribute 2 million rubles that was the amount needed to get access to repos with the CCP. Thus, clearing members who contributed to the Guarantee fund in order to be admitted to the trading modes "Repo with the CCP" will not be required to pay more.

HKEx Publishes Consultation Conclusions On Trading Halts

Date 15/03/2013

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), published today (Friday) its Consultation Conclusions on Trading Halts. The consultation found a majority of respondents supported the Exchange's proposal to allow a listed issuer’s inside information announcement to be released during the Exchange's trading hours subject to a short trading halt.

UK House of Lords, House Of Commons Parliamentary Commission On Banking Standards - Proprietary trading

Date 15/03/2013

Introduction

1. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards was established to examine the crisis of culture and standards in banking which has been exposed in recent times. The Commission was also asked to examine the Government’s draft legislative proposals to bring about structural  change in the UK banking sector to secure a greater degree of organisational separation between retail banking and investment banking. We discharged this last requirement  in our First Report published on 21 December,  and in our more recent follow-up Report on the same subject. We intend to report fully on the issues of culture and standards in our final Report later this Spring.

Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Trading Report

Date 15/03/2013

Please click here to download MSE's weekly trading report.

HKEx Announces Temporary Holiday Risk Management Arrangements

Date 15/03/2013

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced the following holiday risk management arrangements.

Bursa Malaysia Securities Publicly Reprimands Timberwell Berhad For Breach Of Main Market Listing Requirements

Date 15/03/2013

Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (Bursa Malaysia Securities) has publicly reprimanded Timberwell Berhad (TIMWELL) for failing to ensure that TIMWELL’s announcement dated 28 February 2012 on the fourth quarterly report for the financial year ended 31 December 2011 (Q4 2011) took into account the adjustments as stated in TIMWELL’s announcement dated 30 April 2012.

ESMA Publishes A Q&A On ETFs And Other UCITS Issues

Date 15/03/2013

These Q&A are intended to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of the UCITS Directive and its implementing measures, with a specific focus on the guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues (ESMA/2012/832).