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SGX To Offer Faster Access To Its Securities Market And Data - New Access Platform Will Cut Trading Latency By More Than 10 Times At A More Competitive Pricing Structure

Date 07/04/2009

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is pleased to announce today that it will be launching a new access platform to its securities market and data. The new access platform, SGXAccess API1, will offer latency improvements of more than 10 times, achieving up to an average of 16 milliseconds for order acknowledgments. It will be an alternative to the existing SGXAccess FIX2 solution, which will continue to be offered. SGXAccess API utilises OMNet API, the native protocol of SGX’s Quest-ST securities t
Australian Financial Technology Companies Merge To Form The Unrivalled World Leader In Market Surveillance Technologies

Date 07/04/2009

Australian based financial services technology companies SMARTS Group Pty Ltd and Capital Markets Surveillance Services Pty Ltd (CMSS) today announced the successful merger of the two groups. The newly merged organisation is operating as SMARTS Group Holdings Pty Ltd (SMARTS Group). This new company is now the undisputed global leader in market surveillance technology for exchanges, regulators and brokers.
CA Cheuvreux Incorporates Smart Trade’s Technology Into Its Blink European Equity Crossing Network - Enables Broker’s Clients To Execute Orders From Their Desktops, Optimise Execution And Reduce Latency

Date 07/04/2009

CA Cheuvreux, the global equity agency-only brokerage and a subsidiary of Calyon, the corporate and investment banking arm of the Credit Agricole Group, announced today that it has implemented the Smart Trade LiquidityCrosser™, a robust, fast-time-to-market crossing engine as part of its internal crossing strategy, matching retail, institutional, program, algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) flow coming into the firm. By drawing on its broad reach and market share throughout Europe, CA
BM&FBOVESPA Monthly Operational Figures Report - March, 2009

Date 06/04/2009

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U.S., Switzerland Begin Negotiations To Bolster Tax Information Exchange - Parties Intend To Amend Information Exchange Provisions Of Bilateral Income Tax Treaty

Date 06/04/2009

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that the United States and Switzerland will begin negotiation of a protocol to amend their bilateral income tax treaty, which entered into force in 1996. Consistent with the announcement made by the Swiss Federal Council on March 13, 2009, the two countries intend to revise the tax treaty so the two countries can exchange information for tax purposes to the full extent permitted by Article 26 of the Organization for Economic Co-operation a

US Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh - At The Council Of Institutional Investors 2009 Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C. April 6, 2009 - The Panic of 2008

Date 06/04/2009

Deterioration in employment conditions. Pullback in consumer spending. Decline of industrial production. Retreat in capacity utilization. Falling capital expenditures. These measures are objective, all-too-familiar indicators of recessions. They emerge during periodic troughs in our economic history. They are thought by most observers to be part of the business cycle. The decennial recessions of 1981-82, 1991-92, and 2001-02 were of differing causes and consequences. But they were alike in one k
Madoff Middleman Ezra Merkin Charged With Fraud For Secretly Steering $2.4 Billion In Investor Assets Into Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme – New York Attorney General Cuomo Alleges That Madoff Associate And His Funds Targeted NY Charities And Non-Profits, Pocketing

Date 06/04/2009

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced charges against J. Ezra Merkin and the funds he controlled for violating New York’s Martin Act by concealing from his clients the investment of more than $2.4 billion with Bernard L. Madoff. In a 54-page complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court, Cuomo alleges that investors, including several prominent charities and non-profits, entrusted their investments to Merkin, who then steered the money to Madoff without their permission, in exchang
Speech By SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro: Address To The Council of Institutional Investors

Date 06/04/2009

Thank you, Joe, for that lovely introduction, and I want to thank you and Ann for inviting me to join you today. It's really an honor to be here.
Joaquín Almunia, European Commissioner for Economic And Monetary Policy - Laying he Foundations Of A European Foreign Economic Policy - DG ECFIN Seminar "Towards aA European Foreign Economic Policy Brussels, 6 April 2009

Date 06/04/2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the conference "Towards a European Foreign Economic Policy". I am pleased to see such a distinguished set of speakers and discussants gathered here today. Knowing many of you, I can anticipate some lively and productive debates on how to strengthen the external aspects of our common economic policies.
BATS Europe MTF Reports Average Latency Below 400 Microseconds - Sets High Performance/Low-Latency Standard In Europe

Date 06/04/2009

BATS Europe, an innovative and technology-leading European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), today revealed its system performance with an average latency of 380 microseconds, one of the fastest response times in the industry.