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Address At The Event Marking The First Signatures To The T2S Framework Agreement - Peter Praet, Member Of The Executive Board Of The ECB, Frankfurt Am Main, 8 May 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Ladies and gentlemen,

It is no exaggeration to say that today is a historic date for the T2S project. It marks the end of more than two years of negotiations on the T2S Framework Agreement, one of the most critical legal documents underlying the whole project.

Address At The Event Marking The First Signatures To The T2S Framework Agreement - Mario Draghi, President Of The ECB, Frankfurt Am Main, 8 May 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am very pleased to welcome you to Frankfurt today on the occasion of the signing of the T2S Framework Agreement by a first group of central securities depositories, or CSDs.

José Manuel Durão Barroso President Of The European Commission Statement By President Barroso: "Seizing The Moment To Boost Growth: 9th May Message From The European Commission" Joint Press Conference With Vice-President Rehn Brussels, 8 May 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,

Tomorrow is Europe Day and we celebrate the achievements of the European Union: 62 years of European integration.

Eurosystem Signs T2S Framework Agreement With First Central Securities Depositories

Date 08/05/2012

Today, the European Central Bank (ECB) hosted an event to mark the signing of the T2S Framework Agreement by the Eurosystem and a first group of nine European central securities depositories (CSDs):

• Bank of Greece Securities Settlement System – BOGS (Greece)

• Clearstream Banking AG (Germany)

• Depozitarul Central S.A. (Romania)

• Iberclear (Spain)

• LuxCSD S.A. (Luxembourg)

• Monte Titoli S.p.A. (Italy)

• National Bank of Belgium Securities Settlement System – NBB-SSS (Belgium)

• VP LUX S.á.r.l. (Luxembourg)

• VP Securities A/S (Denmark).

NASDAQ OMX Commodities And Nord Pool Spot Monthly Market Report April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Highlights physical April 2012:

POWER:

• Nord Pool Spot market share of Nordic consumption was 72.7% in April.
• The total Nordic preliminary consumption for April was 31.6 TWh compared to 34.8 TWh inMarch.
• Volumes traded in the day-ahead and intraday markets were 25.9 TWh in April compared to 28.3TWh in March 2012.
• The   average Elspot system price for April was 31.71 EUR/MWh compared to 29.20 EUR/MWh in March 2012.
• The value of turnover in the day-ahead and intraday markets for April was EUR 0.9 billion.

Creditex And Markit To Conduct First Credit Event Auction In Chinese Corporate Credit Market - Sino-Forest Corp. CDS On May 9

Date 08/05/2012

IntercontinentalExchange's Creditex subsidiary and Markit will conduct a Credit Event Auction to facilitate settlement of credit default swaps (CDS) trades on Sino-Forest Corp. on May 9, 2012.  This will be the first credit event auction conducted to settle CDS trades outside of North America, Europe and Japan.

2012 Will Be A Year Of Disruption For US Hedge Funds Trading Equities, Says TABB - Large Funds Slashing Broker Tails - 50% Of Funds Want Greater Algorithmic Transparency - Rising Cost Of Compliance A Top Concern

Date 08/05/2012

After enduring 2011’s bruising markets, US hedge funds trading equities tell TABB Group that 2012 will be a year of disruption with market conditions, sell-side broker economics and regulation creating a triangle of change, already reshaping their trading environment.

Monte Titoli Signs ECB T2S Framework Agreement - Reaffirms Long-Standing Commitment To Participate In First Wave Of T2S - Supports T2S Objectives To Harmonise European Securities Settlement Infrastructure - Underpins Continuing Operation As Competitive, Neutral Settlement And Asset Servicing Provider

Date 08/05/2012

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE Group) today announces that Monte Titoli has signed the European Central Bank's (ECB) T2S Framework Agreement at a ceremony in Frankfurt. The signing ceremony was hosted by Mario Draghi, ECB President and Peter Praet, member of ECB Executive Board responsible for T2S.

TOM Insight April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Click here to download TOM’s April ‘12 Insight, a document describing matching statistics on TOM MTF and savings made for the retail client by TOM Smart Execution.

Hellenic Exchanges 11th Annual General Meeting: Modification Of The Articles Of Association

Date 08/05/2012

Hellenic Exchanges informs investors, in accordance with §2 art. 19 of Law 3556/2007 and ahead of the Annual General Meeting of shareholders, which will take place on Wednesday May 23^rd 2012 at 18:00, in Athens, at the headquarters of the company (110 Athinon Ave., ‘HERMES’ hall), that it intends to modify article 5 of its Articles of Association, as a result of the proposed reduction of the share capital by the mount of EUR5,229,485.04, which will take place through a EUR0.08 reduction in the stock par value (from EUR0.87 to EUR0.79) and distribution of that amount to shareholders.