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Commentary By Majd Shafiq United Advisors: Middle East Investors Stake In Plus Markets

Date 21/10/2009

Recent news that a group of Middle East investors have taken a stake of around 17% in Plus Markets, an alternative trading platform in London, is an interesting development and a possibility that I had mentioned in a recent article entitled Middle East Exchanges: The case for consolidation.
Sterling Surges To Month High Following Comforting Comments From King

Date 21/10/2009

Sterling has surged to a month high against both the euro and dollar following suggestions from Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King that the bank will not increase its QE program in November.
SIX Group Sets New Standards With CONNEXOR® Reference Data Management System

Date 21/10/2009

Under the name CONNEXOR, SIX Group plans to expand its Web-based reference data infrastructure. Thanks to this new online platform, issuers can compile their reference data centrally in standardized form and then have it disseminated electronically to all stakeholder groups. As a result, CONNEXOR offers market participants greater efficiency, first-rate reference data quality and simplified comparability of financial products.
CESR Consults On Details For Proposed Registration And Supervision Of CRAs, Feedback Statement On CRAs Repository Published

Date 21/10/2009

CESR published today a feedback statement on its consultation for a central repository for credit rating agencies (CRAs) and issued a consultation paper detailing the proposed registration and supervision process for CRA in Europe.
HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Sun Hung Kai Properties Futures

Date 21/10/2009

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 Friday, 23 October 2009, 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 margin

Securities & Investment Institute’s Compliance Professional Interest Forum Comments On FSA CP09/19 – Enforcement Financial Penalties: Prevention Not Cure

Date 21/10/2009

The Securities & Investment Institute’s (SII) Compliance Professional Interest Forum has contributed to the FSA Consultation Paper CP09/19 on Enforcement financial penalties.
Cinnober Calls For Transparency On Performance Claims - Claims Regarding Latency Should Be Supported By Hard Facts To Bring Discussions To A New, More Relevant Level

Date 21/10/2009

Leading independent exchange technology provider Cinnober today announced the publication of an in-depth whitepaper on latency on their web site.
Q3 Trading results Of KRX ETF

Date 21/10/2009

Trading Despite the listing of new ETFs and brisk trading of KODEX China H, the asset under management of ETFs tracking key indices of KRX declined due to shrinking spot-futures basis and the daily trading value and trading volume also fell due to the decline of arbitrage trading. Daily trading value was KRW 122.8 billion (decline of 10.4% from previous quarter) and daily trading volume was 6,219,000 shares (decline of 2,158,000 or 25.8% from the previous quarter).
CETRELSecurities And AIM Software Acquire First Joint Customer

Date 21/10/2009

CETRELSecurities, a specialist in providing ASP services to financial institutions with more than 20 active clients using the service, and AIM Software, a global provider of reference data man-agement solutions to the financial industry, today announced that they have acquired a first common customer based on AIM Software’s GAIN Golden Copy.
Norwegian Corporate Governance Board (NUES) Awards The Prize For The Best Report On Corporate Governance In 2008 Annual Reports To Dnb NOR ASA

Date 21/10/2009

The Norwegian Corporate Governance Board - NUES (Norsk Utvalg for Eierstyring og Selskapsledelse) - awards a prize every autumn to the company listed on Oslo Børs that the Board wishes to recognise for the quality its report on corporate governance in the previous year’s annual report. The purpose of the prize is to create a greater awareness of corporate governance in general, and to promote the Norwegian Code of Practice for Corporate Governance in particular. NUES also hopes that the award