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Eurex Clearing Plans To Build European CCP Platform For Clearing Services In OTC Derivatives - Initial Phase Will Focus On Credit Index Clearing - Service Complements Existing Market Infrastructure To Offer Effective Counterparty Risk Management

Date 22/07/2008

Eurex Clearing evaluates different formats to introduce a central counterparty (CCP) solution for products which are today handled bilaterally over the counter (OTC). It aims to complement current US initiatives with a European solution. The European OTC CCP platform could utilize existing Eurex Clearing functionality as well as new functionality for trade and risk management.
DTCC And Markit To Form Strategic OTC Derivatives Partnership - Market Leaders In Trade Processing Team Up To Reduce Risk, Improve Efficiency

Date 22/07/2008

Markit and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced the formation of a new company that will combine the strengths of Markit’s front- and middle-office trade processing services with DTCC Deriv/SERV’s back-office leadership in post-trade confirmation and matching services.
Deletion For The S&P Japan Emerging Stock 100 Index - Revised

Date 22/07/2008

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes for S&P Japan Emerging Stock 100 Index effective after the close of trading Friday, July 25th , 2008. 1. Deletion S&P Japan Emerging Stock 100 Index - after market close of July 25th , 2008
MSCI Barra Launches MSCI Agriculture & Food Chain Indices - New Addition To The MSCI Thematic & Strategy Indices Family

Date 22/07/2008

MSCI Barra (NYSE:MXB), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics, announced today that it has launched a new set of indices belonging to the MSCI Thematic & Strategy Indices family.
"Computing Capital For Incremental Risk In The Trading Book" And "Revisions To The Basel II Market Risk Framework" - Consultative Documents Issued By The Basel Committee On Banking Supervision

Date 22/07/2008

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued for public comment Guidelines for Computing Capital for Incremental Risk in the Trading Book as well as Proposed Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework.

CME Group Secures $3.2 Billion In Financing From Bank Of America And UBS To Finance Its Acquisition Of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. - Standard & Poor's Assigns Its 'AA' Long-Term Counterparty Credit Rating To CME Group

Date 22/07/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced it has obtained committed financing to support its acquisition of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. The committed financing takes the form of a $3.2 billion bridge financing facility with Bank of America and UBS. In addition, Standard & Poor's has assigned CME Group an "AA" rating on its long-term counterparty credit rating, and S&P and Moody's reaffirmed the company's short-term credit ratings of A-1+ and P-1, respectively
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Apology For Derivatives System Malfunction

Date 22/07/2008

We at the TSE once again wish to express our deepest regret for the inconvenience caused to investors and many others involved in the market as a result of the derivatives system malfunction that occurred on July 22nd.
Tokyo Stock Exchange: System Capacity Augmentation, etc.

Date 22/07/2008

Effective today, Tuesday, July 22, 2008, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) will implement the following system capacity augmentation to the Stock Trading System in tandem with the partial review of the tick size structure as publicized on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Exponential-e signs Financial Extranet Agreement With Chi-X Europe

Date 22/07/2008

Exponential-e, the UK's most established Next-Generation-Network service provider, announced today that Chi-X Europe's trading data and Extranet services will be available via its "Financial Exchange Service Creation Platform (FX-SCP)". Exponential-e hosts more than 150 financial institutions from its VPLS-enabled next-generation network and FX-SCP. Under the terms of the deal, these customers will be able to access Chi-X Europe's market data and trading platform services as an additional "pl
Tokyo Stock Exchange Derivatives Trading Will Resume From 13:45p.m.

Date 22/07/2008

This is to inform that, after thorough investigation of the system failure of Derivatives Trading System, TSE will resume TSE Derivatives products trading from 13:45p.m.