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Ping An Live With Fidessa’s Buy-Side Front Office System For Domestic And International Operations - Fidessa Continues Momentum In Asia With Strategic Implementation In China

Date 01/03/2011

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of high-performance trading, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, has today announced that Ping An Asset Management, the investment arm of Ping An Insurance (Group), one of China’s largest insurers, is now live on LatentZero, Fidessa’s buy-side front office suite, for both its domestic and international operations.

Burgundy Introduces LiquidMetrix For The Nordic Region - LiquidMetrix And Burgundy Provide Liquidity Battlemaps For Nordic Indices

Date 01/03/2011

Burgundy, in conjunction with LiquidMetrix, is now distributing Nordic “Liquidity Battlemaps” for the indices in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. This will help trading firms to capitalise on the opportunities presented by multiple trading venues in the Nordic markets.

Dow Jones Indexes And Brookfield Asset Management Launch Emerging Markets Infrastructure Index

Date 01/03/2011

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE: BAM, TSX: BAM.A, Euronext: BAMA), a global asset management company focused on property, power and infrastructure assets, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones Brookfield Emerging Markets Infrastructure Index.

FORTS: Initial Margin Requirement Increased For The Holidays Season

Date 01/03/2011

RTS Clearing Center increases the size of initial margin for FORTS and RTS Standard for the period of March holidays.

Thomson Reuters And Redkite Financial Markets To Offer Market Surveillance Solution

Date 01/03/2011

Thomson Reuters and Redkite Financial Markets, a leading real-time trade surveillance solution provider, today announced a global arrangement to provide all market participants with access to relevant pre and post-trade information to enable appropriate monitoring and risk management controls. Customers of Thomson Reuters will be able to access the Redkite trade surveillance solution as a managed service within the Elektron high performance real-time network and hosting environment. The Redkite solution Redeye, will also be available as a deployed software implementation within a firms own enterprise environment.  

Opening Keynote By Y Bhg Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar Chairman, Securities Commission Malaysia - 2011 ICGN Mid Year Conference - 1 March 2011 - “Asian Corporate Governance - The Future Steps”

Date 01/03/2011

“Asian Corporate Governance - The Future Steps” 

NZX: Qualification Under 2007 CEO Share Plan

Date 01/03/2011

Following approval of the NZX 2010 Financial Statements, the NZX Board has today advised CEO, Mark Weldon that 896,264 shares issued under the 2007 CEO Share Plan (“Plan”) have met the requirements for qualification under the Plan. As a result, those shares cease to be restricted and Mr Weldon may take a transfer of those shares. 

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Final Settlement Price Of Crude Oil For February 2011 Contract

Date 01/03/2011

“Public Citizen” - Remarks Of CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler, Implementing The Dodd-Frank Act

Date 28/02/2011

Good afternoon. I thank Robert Weissman for that kind introduction as well as Public Citizen for inviting me to speak today.

The 2008 financial crisis left us with many lessons and many challenges to tackle. At the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), we swim in the derivatives lane. In July of last year, Congress passed – and the President signed – the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to, among other things, bring the unregulated over-the-counter derivatives markets under comprehensive regulation. Those derivatives, also known as “swaps,” were not the only cause of the 2008 financial crisis, but they played a significant role.

Preliminary Report On Foreign Holdings Of U.S. Securities At End-June 2010

Date 28/02/2011

Preliminary data from a survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities at end-June 2010 are released today on the U.S. Treasury web site at (http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/fpis.aspx).  A revised table on Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities, where estimates through end-December 2010 are based in part on survey data, is also released at (http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/ticsec2.aspx, on line 1 of Part A).  Final survey results, which will include additional detail as well as possible revisions to the preliminary data, will be reported on April 29, 2011.  The survey was undertaken jointly by the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  The next survey will be for end-June 2011 and preliminary data are expected to be released by February 28, 2012.