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  • Deputy Prime Minister And Finance Minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos Sign Memorandum Of Cooperation With The European Commission

    Date 01/03/2012

    In execution of the recently voted law in the Greek Parliament (4046/2012) which approved with a wide majority the new support programme for the Greek economy, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos signed today in Brussels the memorandum of cooperation for the new with the European Commission Vice President Olli Rehn. The memorandum is co-signed by the Governor of the Bank of Greece George Provopoulos. Attached to the memorandum are the letters of commitment by the Presidents of PASOK and Nea Dimokratia political parties, addressed to the President of Eurogroup.

  • ESMA Advises European Commission On Prospectus Directive’s Overhaul - Advice Covers Possible Delegated Acts

    Date 01/03/2012

    ESMA publishes today the second part of its final advice (ESMA/2012/137) on possible delegated acts for the Prospectus Directive (PD). The advice was submitted to the Commission on 29 February 2012. In its advice, ESMA proposes how to use a prospectus in a retail cascade and provides input on how to review the provisions of the Prospectus Regulation concerning tax information, indices, auditor’s report on profit forecasts and estimates and audited historical financial information.

  • The Options Industry Council Announces February Options Trading Volume Off 1%

    Date 01/03/2012

    The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 349,463,168 total options contracts changed hands in February, 1.34 percent less than the 354,214,236 contracts traded in February 2011.

  • Joint Press Briefing By Hellenic Republic Prime Minister Lucas Papademos And President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso Following Their Meeting

    Date 01/03/2012

    J.-M. BARROSO Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It was indeed a great pleasure to have held this important, constructive meeting with the Prime Minister and our colleagues from the Commission and the Greek government.

  • Statement By The President Of The Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker - Greece

    Date 01/03/2012

    The Eurogroup welcomes the assessment of the Troika that Greece has made sufficient progress in completing the agreed prior actions. All required legislation by the Parliament and the Ministerial Cabinet has been adopted, and a few pending implementing acts should be completed shortly. Ministers note with satisfaction that Greece thereby undertook decisive and swift legislative action in the areas of fiscal consolidation, revenue administration, pension reform, financial sector regulation and supervision and growth-enhancing structural reforms. This will allow the Greek adjustment effort to regain momentum, which – together with a rigorous implementation of the agreed policy package for the new programme - constitutes the basis for putting the public finances and the economy of Greece back on a sustainable path.  The Troika will finalise in the next few days the detailed assessment of the quality of the transposition of prior actions in Greek legislation. 

  • Program Trading Averaged 27.6 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Feb. 21-24

    Date 01/03/2012

    The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Feb. 21-24.

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

    Date 01/03/2012

    SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland recorded a further increase in turnover in February 2012. Total turnover was up 12.2% month-on-month at CHF 88.9 billion. The number of trades was roughly in line with the prior month’s level, showing a minimal month-on-month drop of 0.4% to 2,771,241.

  • ACFE Honors Michael Woodford For Exposing Olympus Accounting Scandal - Whistleblower To Receive 2012 Sentinel Award From World’s Largest Anti-Fraud Organisation

    Date 01/03/2012

    For “choosing truth over self” in exposing the Olympus accounting scandal, Michael Woodford has been selected to receive the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award for 2012.

  • STOXX Limited Named “Most Innovative ETF Index Provider”

    Date 01/03/2012

    STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that it has been named “Most Innovative Index Provider” by ETF Express. This is the third consecutive year that STOXX has received this award, and the first time that any company has won an award in any category three times in a row. Award winners are chosen based on votes cast by readers of ETF Express. The newsletter’s readership consists of index and exchange-traded fund (ETF) users.

  • Average Daily Volume Of 8.7 Million Contracts At Eurex Group In February

    Date 01/03/2012

    In February 2012, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.7 million contracts (Feb 2011: 10.3 million). Of those, 6.0 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (Feb 2011: 7.1 million), and 2.7 million contracts were at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE) (Feb 2011: 3.2 million). In total, 179.3 million contracts were traded, thereof 125.8 million at Eurex and 53.5 million at the ISE.