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Newly Launched Euro Stoxx Optimised Banks Index Licensed To Source

Date 14/04/2011

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, substantial and global index concepts, today announced the launch of the EURO STOXX Optimised Banks Index. The new index, which is part of the STOXX Optimised Index family, applies the well-known STOXX Optimised methodology to the Euro zone's banks supersector following the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB).

On April 14, 2011, On The Expiration Day Of The Front Month Option Contracts The Evening Trading Session Starts At 7:10 PM MSK

Date 14/04/2011

Please be advised that in accordance with the resolution of the RTS’s Board of Directors that was passed in compliance with the Derivatives Rules of RTS, Clause 6.2 the evening trading session on FORTS will start 10 minutes later today, i.e. at 7:10 pm MSK, as today is the expiration day of the front month option contracts.

CYMBA Athena To Provide Connectivity For Pipeline Financial

Date 14/04/2011

Pipeline Financial Group Ltd, the European MTFand institutional electronic brokerage which provides block trading and specialist algorithmic trading services, announced today that it has partnered with CYMBA Technologies.

Intelligent Financial Systems Provides LiquidMetrix Data Analysis Solution To Pipeline Financial

Date 14/04/2011

Pipeline Financial Group Ltd, the European MTF and institutional electronic brokerage which provides block trading and specialist algorithmic trading services, announced today that it has partnered with Intelligent Financial Systems (IFS).

Exercise Of Ibovespa Options Generates BRL 1.56 Billion On BM&FBOVESPA

Date 13/04/2011

The exercise of options on the Ibovespa index generated BRL 1.56 billion on Wednesday, with 22,830 contracts traded. Of the financial volume in exercised contracts, BRL 1.39 billion was in put options and BRL 164 million in call options.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 13/04/2011

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Wednesday, April 13, 2011:

• Cirrus Energy Corporation (TSXVN:CYR) will be removed from the index. The shares of the company have been acquired by Oranje-Nassau Energie B.V. through an Offer to Purchase for $CDN1.15 cash per share.

FIA Clearing 2011: A Derivatives Forum - Speech Of CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia

Date 13/04/2011

Introduction

Thank you for inviting me to participate in this forum. It’s great to get out of the office and meet with the people who are impacted the most by the Commission’s actions in implementing the Dodd-Frank Act. I want to hear about what keeps you up late at night, and I want to understand exactly where we have strayed off course. But, I also realize you are here to listen to me explain where the Commission is—at this moment—heading on the over 50 rulemakings, and when we expect to reach the end of our rulemaking odyssey.

NYSE Technologies Launches Liquidity Centers In Chicago And Toronto - New Facilities Added To NYSE Technologies Global Liquidity Center Network - Providing Customers With More Direct, Simplified Access To Markets Around the World

Date 13/04/2011

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the launch of two new Liquidity Centers in Chicago, IL and Toronto, ON Canada.   Joining NYSE Euronext’s primary Liquidity Centers in Mahwah, NJ and Basildon, London, these new facilities link to a broader network of installations that will feature a range of NYSE Technologies products and services tailored to facilitate simplified, high-performance access to markets, market information and other trading infrastructure services.

Remarks, Bringing Oversight To The Swaps Market - 20th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference On The State Of The U.S. And World Economics, New York, NY - CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler

Date 13/04/2011

Good afternoon. I thank the Levy Economics Institute and Bard College for inviting me to speak today. When first contacted by Bard College to speak at this event, I thought it might have something to do with my daughter Lee, who is a freshman at their beautiful campus in Annandale-on-Hudson. I was glad that everything was fine with Lee and that it wasn’t yet another call to say I had been late on getting the tuition check in. Far better and an honor to boot, the call was to invite me to speak with you today about the important topic of “Financial Reform and the Real Economy.”

SEC Charges Former Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager With Insider Trading - Hedge Funds Agree To Pay Approximately $33 Million

Date 13/04/2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former hedge fund portfolio manager with insider trading in a bio-pharmaceutical company based on confidential information about negative results of the company’s clinical drug trial.