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Fidessa Appoints Justin Llewellyn-Jones As COO Of Its US Business - Managing Director Of Hosted Services Embraces Additional Role To Take Company Operations To The Next Level

Date 18/05/2011

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of high-performance trading, investment management and information solutions for the world’s financial community, today announced that Justin Llewellyn-Jones has been appointed chief operating officer of Fidessa corporation, its US based operation.
HKEx: Arrangements For Adjustment Of Bank Of Communications Futures And Options

Date 18/05/2011

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced the arrangements for the adjustment to the contract terms of all open Bank of Communications futures and options contracts in existence after the market close on 7 July 2011 to account for Bank of Communications’ bonus issue comprising one share for every 10 shares held.
Tehran Stock Exchange Shareholder's General Meeting

Date 18/05/2011

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on 16 May 2011 in Tehran, the shareholders of Tehran Stock Exchange approved a dividend distribution of IRR 200 per share for 1389 (Iranian Calendar), to be paid from retained earnings.
GigaSpaces And Comarch Partner To Enhance Profits For Eastern European Financial Services Companies - GigaSpaces Elastic Application Platform Enables Comarch Exchange Trading System (CXT) To Deliver Low Latency And Extreme Transaction Processing

Date 18/05/2011

GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application virtualisation platforms delivering end-to-end scalability, announces that Comarch, a leading Polish system integrator, will be using GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) as the basis for its next-generation brokerage system.
HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Li & Fung Futures

Date 18/05/2011

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced that with effect from the commencement of trading on Thursday, 19 May 2011, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contract will be as outlined in the table below. The adjustments are based on the clearing company's normal procedures and standard margining methodology.

RTS Exchange: Settlement Prices Determined For Futures Contracts On Urals And Brent Oil

Date 18/05/2011

On May 16, 2011 Urals futures (UR-5.11) and Brent futures (BR-5.11) contracts expired.
ICAP Plc - Full Year Results: Preliminary Statement For The Year Ended 31 March 2011

Date 18/05/2011

ICAP plc (IAP.L), the world’s premier interdealer broker and supplier of post trade risk and information services, today announced its audited results for the year ended 31 March 2011.
Analysis Of Securities Investment By Koreans In 2010

Date 18/05/2011

The Korea Exchange (KRX) analyzed the number of Korean who invested in the stocks of 723 companies listed in the KOSPI Market and 1,011 companies listed in the KOSDAQ Market in 2010.
Opening Address By Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority Of Singapore, At The Merrill Lynch Asian Stars Conference 2011

Date 18/05/2011

According to estimates by the late British economist, Angus Maddison, two thousand years ago, India had the largest GDP in the world. China was close behind. Together, they accounted for more than half of global GDP. Asia ex Japan was 75 per cent of world GDP. And this was at the height of the Roman Empire in Europe, which accounted for just 10 per cent of global output. Over the next 1,800 years, the two Asian giants remained the largest economies in the world, with China pulling ahead of India about 500 years ago. For much of this period, Asia ex Japan was typically about three times larger than Western Europe.
Shanghai Stock Exchange To Introduce Cross-border ETFs This Year

Date 18/05/2011

The debut of Hong Kong share ETFs is drawing near as regulators, bourses and industry representatives from China's mainland and Hong Kong gathered in Hong Kong on May 13 for a seminar on cross-border products cooperation and development.