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Traiana Secures Strategic Investment From Seven Leading Global Banks

Date 14/01/2013

ICAP plc (ICAP), the world's leading interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services, today announces that it has sold a 12% stake in Traiana, Inc. ("Traiana") to seven of Traiana's leading customers, giving the business a valuation of $300 million. Collectively, the Investors also have an opportunity under certain conditions to acquire in the future an additional 20% equity in Traiana for a price of up to $82.5 million.

Corporate Board Member To Convene General Counsel Forum - Annual Event Addresses Paramount Corporate Legal And Risk Issues

Date 14/01/2013

Corporate Board Member, an NYSE Euronext Company, will host its 4th annual General Counsel Forum on March 19 at the New York Stock Exchange. Developed specifically for the most senior in-house counsel of public companies, the event will address the most paramount legal and risk issues for general counsel in today’s environment. The program will include veteran general counsel from a range of industries, along with respected legal advisers offering candid insight to the challenges facing legal departments today.

AX Trading Launches DirectAX For Issuers And Sponsors - Public Companies & PE/VC Firms Can Now Leverage The AX Auction

Date 14/01/2013

AX Trading announced the launch of “DirectAX,” a unique offering that allows investment banks working on behalf of issuing companies and Private Equity/Venture Capital firms to leverage The AX auction to sell blocks of stock directly to leading institutional investors.  

mini MSCI Futures On NYSE Liffe U.S. Reach Records In 2012 - Volume Up 67% From 2011 With Open Interest Up 113% - Introduced mini MSCI Canada, mini MSCI Emerging Markets Latin America And mini MSCI World Contracts

Date 14/01/2013

NYSE Liffe U.S., the innovative U.S. futures exchange of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced several 2012 trading records for its mini MSCI Futures Complex, including all-time highs in Volume, Open Interest (OI) and Block trade at Index Close (BIC) activity.  For the full-year 2012, mini MSCI Index Futures traded a record Average Daily Volume (ADV) of 19,256, up 67% from 2011. Led by consistently growing trading volume in MSCI Emerging Markets and MSCI EAFE in 2012, NYSE Liffe U.S. experienced record year-over-year volume gains of 87% and 43% in those products, respectively.  Open Interest in the contracts closed out 2012 at 233,752 contracts, up 113% from year-end 2011.

Thomson Reuters Global Equities Monthly Market Share Data Updated To Reflect December 2012 Activity

Date 14/01/2013

Trading is fragmenting between exchanges and competing venues. But by how much and which venues? Find out in the Thomson Reuters summarised monthly reports.

EGX Signs License Agreement With NYSE Liffe To Enable The Listing Of An EGX 30 Index Futures Contract On NYSE Liffe London

Date 14/01/2013

The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) is pleased to announce that it today signed a license agreement in London with NYSE Liffe, the European derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, to list the EGX 30 index. Witnessing the signing ceremony was His Excellency, Mr. Osama Saleh, Minister of Investment of Egypt.

MIAX Options Exchange Updates To Quote Mitigation Setting

Date 14/01/2013

In accordance with MIAX Rule 506(b)(1), beginning on Monday January 14, 2013, the MIAX Options Exchange will revise the Disseminated Bids and Offers Quote Mitigation setting from 10% to 0%.

HKEx Revises Its Plan For Options On CSOP A50 And CAM CSI300 ETFs

Date 14/01/2013

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has revised its planned options on Hong Kong dollar-traded units of the CSOP FTSE China A50 (CSOP A50) ETF and ChinaAMC CSI 300 Index (CAM CSI300) ETF, two Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) with A shares as their underlying benchmark, to reduce trading costs. The rollout date has also been revised to Monday, 28 January 2013 from Monday, 21 January.

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) Succeeds In High Court In Securities Fraud Case

Date 14/01/2013

The High Court today, dismissed the appeal of Wahid Ali bin Kassim Ali, a former director and fund manager of Aiwanna Asset Management Sdn Bhd, against his conviction and sentence for securities fraud which he had committed between 2001 and 2002. Wahid Ali, a former director and licensed fund manager of the company was convicted by the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court in October 2005 of three charges under the Section 87A(c) of the Securities Industry Act 1983 for omitting to provide material facts in the statements of account to its client, Eastern Pacific Industrial Corporation Berhad (“EPIC”). To each charge, he was sentenced to one-year imprisonment and a fine of RM1 million (in default of the total RM3 million fine, one-year imprisonment).

Supervision Of Financial Market Infrastructures In Singapore

Date 14/01/2013

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued a monograph on Supervision of Financial Market Infrastructures in Singapore. The monograph sets out MAS’ approach in supervising financial market infrastructures (FMI) in Singapore to foster their safety and efficiency¹. It updates and replaces the 2004 monograph on MAS’ Roles and Responsibilities in Relation to Securities Clearing and Settlement Systems in Singapore.