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CBOT Amends Fees For Clearing, Off-Exchange Transactions And Electronic Agricultural Products

Date 31/05/2006

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced it will amend its fee schedule for clearing and off-exchange transactions, as well as its exchange fees for trading Agricultural products electronically effective July 1, 2006.
BOVESPA And CBLC Studying Demutualization And IPO

Date 31/05/2006

The São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA) and The Brazilian Clearing and Depository Corporation CBLC) formed a working group to study their demutualization and Initial Public Offering (IPO).
BME Holds The Second Gathering Of The Medcap Forum - The Event Will Have The Presence Of Around 70 Companies And More Than 250 Investors

Date 31/05/2006

Antonio Zoido, Chairman of BME, Spanish Exchanges, will today inaugurate the second gathering of the MedCap Forum, which BME will host on May 31th and June 1st. The CNMV’s Chairman, Manuel Conthe, will give a speech on the first day of the event.<
BME Appoints Rothschild As Independent Financial Advisor For The Company’s IPO

Date 31/05/2006

BME, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles has agreed to appoint Rothschild as independent Financial Advisor for the company’s public share offering process and flotation.
15 Broker-Dealer Firms Settle SEC Charges Involving Violative Practices In The Auction Rate Securities Market - Firms Ordered To Cease And Desist And To Pay Over $13 Million In Penalties

Date 31/05/2006

Today the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the institution of proceedings against 15 broker-dealer firms for engaging in violative practices in the $200 billion plus auction rate securities market. Auction rate securities are municipal bonds, corporate bonds or preferred stocks with interest rates or dividend yields that are periodically re-set through Dutch auctions. Simultaneously with the institution of the proceedings, the firms, which neither admit nor deny the findings in the o

TSE And Tata Consultancy Services Cooperate In Delivering Corporate Action Data

Date 30/05/2006

TSE will start distribution of corporate action data from TSE's Tokyo Market Information service directly to end users of NCS Corporate Action (NCS), a product of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS). TCS is the leading information technology service organization based in India and delivering services around the world.
Share Change For Macquarie Goodman Group Ltd In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 30/05/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following change in the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Friday, June 2, 2006: Macquarie Goodman Group Ltd (Australia, SEDOL: B03FYZ4, GICS Code: 40401010), a member of the S&P/ASX 50 Index, will increase its shares to 1,496,931,409. This change is the result of a distribution reinvestment plan.
SGX Strengthens Corporate Governance Structure

Date 30/05/2006

Changes have been made to the Securities and Futures (Corporate Governance of Approved Exchanges, Designated Clearing Houses and Approved Holding Companies) Regulations 2005 (“SFR 2005”) and the Singapore Code of Corporate Governance 2005 (“the Code”), which deal largely with the independence requirements of the Board of Directors.
Securities Industry Congratulates Newly Appointed U.S.A. Treasury Secretary Paulson

Date 30/05/2006

Marc Lackritz, President of the Securities Industry Association (SIA), today congratulated Goldman Sachs’ Chairman Henry Paulson, who was nominated this morning by President Bush to succeed Treasury Secretary John Snow.
SEC Brings Settled Charges Against Tribune Company For Reporting Inflated Circulation Figures And Misstating Circulation Revenues

Date 30/05/2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged publisher Tribune Company with reporting falsified circulation figures from at least January 2002 to March 2004 for two of its newspapers in New York, Newsday and the Spanish-language Hoy. The Commission issued an order finding that Tribune failed to uncover Newsday and Hoy's inflated circulation figures because it lacked sufficient internal controls to detect the schemes at those papers.