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Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority - Finansinspektionen - Response To The Commission’s Public Consultation On The UCITS Depositary Function

Date 02/02/2011

Finansinspektionen (FI) welcomes the Commission’s Consultation on the UCITS depositary function and on the UCITS managers’ remuneration.

DTCC Names Ronald Jordan Chief Data Officer

Date 02/02/2011

Speech By SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro: Opening Statement — SEC Open Meeting

Date 02/02/2011

Good morning. This is an open meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 2, 2011.

NSX Releases January 2011 Etf/Etn Data Reports - Assets Reach New Record

Date 02/02/2011

National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX^®) announced that assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) totaled a new record of approximately $1.02 trillion at January 2011 month-end, an increase of approximately 37% over January 2010 month-end when assets totaled $744.7 billion. At the end of January 2011, the number of listed products totaled 1,121 compared to 947 listed products at the same time last year.

UK Government Announces CEO-Designate Of New Consumer Protection And Markets Authority

Date 02/02/2011

The Government today announced that Martin Wheatley will become chief executive designate of the Consumer Protection and Markets Authority (CPMA). He will be formally appointed to the post of chief executive once the new body has been established at the end of 2012.

FSA Appoints Martin Wheatley As Managing Director, Consumer And Markets Business Unit

Date 02/02/2011

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today announced the appointment of Martin Wheatley as the new managing director of its Consumer and Markets Business Unit. The appointment is effective from 1 September 2011, and at that time he will also join the FSA Board.

IntercontinentalExchange Sets Date For 2011 Annual Meeting Of Stockholders

Date 02/02/2011

 IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, announced the details of its 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Trading In Russia Could Be Centralized On Single Stock Market - MICEX Holding To Acquire Controlling Stake In RTS

Date 02/02/2011

By the end of this year's exchange trading in Russia could be centralized on a single stock market - yesterday the largest Russian stock exchange MICEX Holding agreed to acquire a controlling stake in its main competitor RTS. Longstanding opposition of both exchanges was withdrawn after the talks to merge stock exchanges were more politics than economic sense. Against this background, the future conditions of the transaction described its members as the "market".

ICE Reports Record Average Daily Futures Volume, Up 30% In January - Record ADV For ICE Brent, Gasoil And WTI Futures

Date 02/02/2011

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, reported strong volume growth for its futures business in the first month of 2011. Average daily volume (ADV) for ICE's futures markets was a record 1,578,227 contracts, up 30% from January 2010. ICE Futures Europe established a monthly record of 23.5 million contracts and a monthly ADV record of 1,176,543 contracts, an increase of 45% from the first month of 2010, and the exchange's first monthly ADV total in excess of one million contracts.

FOA Responds To Commission Review Of MiFID - FOA Supports Overall Direction, But Calls For Sustained Choice, Diversity And Competition

Date 02/02/2011

The Futures and Options Association supports the overall direction of the proposed changes within the Commission’s review of MiFID, but highlights a number of concerns in its response to the consultation document today.