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ICE Futures Canada Exchange Minimum Margins

Date 26/02/2009

Click here to download the exchange minimum margins effective with the close of business on Friday, February 27, 2009.
Permanent Regime On Short-Selling: Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Publishes Working Group Report And Launches Public Consultation

Date 26/02/2009

The AMF announced on 6 November 2008 that it was forming a working group led by Marie-Ange Debon and Jean-Pierre Hellebuyck to make proposals to the Board concerning a short-selling regime to be adopted on a permanent basis following the exceptional measures introduced on 19 September 2008.
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services: Opening Speech, EC Conference On Private Equity & Hedge Funds, Brussels, 26 February 2009

Date 26/02/2009

Ladies and gentlemen, The convulsions in our financial markets, and the collateral damage to the real economy, are prompting a review of our financial system. The root cause of our current distress was a combination of overly lax monetary policy and macroeconomic imbalances. These conditions encouraged the build-up of excess leverage in certain Western economies.
FTSE Licenses DBSAM To Create ETF On Straits Times Index

Date 26/02/2009

Global index provider FTSE Group (FTSE), has licensed the Straits Times Index (STI) to DBS Asset Management (DBSAM) to be used as the basis of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) which lists on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) today. This is the third time the STI has been licensed as the underlying index for a Singapore focused ETF since it was revamped in January 2008 in partnership with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and SGX. In addition to the ETFs already listed, the FTSE calculated STI has also bee
Number Of ETFs Listed On Borsa Italiana Exceeds 300 - In 2008 Borsa Italiana Held The First Place Among European Exchanges For Electronic Trading In ETFs

Date 26/02/2009

Borsa Italiana reached a new milestone this month as the number of ETFs on the market exceeded 300 for the first time. The listing of seven new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on Monday 16 February took the number of ETFs on Borsa Italiana’s ETFplus market to over 300, in addition to 47 Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs).

ADX Closes Marina Mall Branch

Date 26/02/2009

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced today that it will be closing its Marina Mall Branch on 30 June 2009.
Dubai International Financial Centre Hosts Event For Indian Business And Professional Council

Date 26/02/2009

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) today hosted an event for members of the Indian Business and Professional Council (IBPC) in Dubai with the objective of boosting financial industry and investment ties between India and the UAE.
Insertion Of Rule 821 To SICOM Rules

Date 26/02/2009

Please see attached for the related circular. You may refer to an updated copy of SICOM Rules at the following Clean Copy and Marked-up Copy.
NYSE Euronext, Shanghai Stock Exchange Expand Memorandum Of Understanding - Exchanges Sign Agreement To Jointly Develop Indexes And ETFs Business In China

Date 26/02/2009

NYSE Euronext (NYX) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand their current relationship by establishing a partnership for the joint development of Indexes and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in China, the US and globally. The MOU signed today builds on the existing cooperation agreement between the former New York Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange from October 2003.
Exchanges Losing Out To European Trading Venues - New Trading Venues Cost Less Than A Fifth Of The Traditional Exchanges According To The Latest Research From TowerGroup

Date 26/02/2009

Multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) are considerably cheaper than traditional exchanges, according to the latest analysis from TowerGroup. For example, in a typical high- or low-volume trading scenario, Chi-X Europe charged a fifth of what the London Stock Exchange (LSE) charged for the same volume of trades and a tenth of the charges levied by Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext.