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Deutsche Börse Gives Positive Mid-Year Assessment For XTF Segment - ETF Fund Volumes More Than Double - Number Of Transactions Increases By 75 Percent - XTF With 56 Percent Market Share Most Successful Segment For ETFs In Europe

Date 16/07/2003

Deutsche Börse's XTF segment for exchange-traded funds continues to grow. As of the end of June, the total fund volume came to 8.9 billion euros - a rise of 112 percent compared with June 2002 (4.2 billion euros). The funds listed in the XTF segment now make up 67 percent of the assets under management in European ETFs.
Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley - CFIE To Host Corporate Governance Symposium In Toronto This September - Canada's Competitiveness On The World Market's Stage Will Be Debated

Date 16/07/2003

While it seems the storm of corporate scandals in the U.S. has passed, in its wake a deluge of widespread and controversial regulatory reforms has swept through global capital markets. For the past year, rule makers and market participants have debated the appropriate response to the largest reform of all, the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act. SOX has brought all the major markets into the corporate governance fray, and the results of the response will impact the markets for years to come.
UK's FSA Publishes Feedback On Options For Regulation Of Stakeholder Products

Date 15/07/2003

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published feedback on its Discussion Paper 19 (DP19) - Options for regulating the sale of "simplified investment products". DP19 outlined three broad options for introducing lighter-touch regulation of face-to-face and telephone selling of simplified investment products.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 15/07/2003

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, July 15, 2003:
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 15/07/2003

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index change effective after the close of business on Wednesday, July 16, 2003:

SEC Publishes Staff Report On Proxy Process Review

Date 15/07/2003

The Securities and Exchange Commission today published a report prepared by its Division of Corporation Finance concerning the Division's review of the Commission's rules and regulations regarding the nomination and election of directors. The staff report notes the need to improve the existing proxy process and recommends action in two areas: improved disclosure and improved shareholder access to the director nomination process. The report recommends the following actions:
Radianz Announces CEO Transition

Date 15/07/2003

Radianz today announced that P. Howard Edelstein will join the company on July 21, 2003 and assume the role of president and CEO after Doug Gilstrap, who currently serves in the role, resigns effective August 15, 2003.
NYSE Seat Sale

Date 15/07/2003

A regular seat on the New York Stock Exchange sold on Monday, July 14, 2003 for $2,000,000, up $175,000 from the previous regular seat sale of $1,825,000 on June 16, 2003.
New York Mercantile Exchange Establishes Margins, Position Accountability Levels, Reporting Requirements For New N.G. Futures

Date 15/07/2003

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced the anticipated margins and position accountability and reporting levels for the four natural gas basis swap futures contracts that will be launched on the afternoon of July 17 for the July 18 trading session.
National Stock Exchange Of Lithuania Monthly Report

Date 15/07/2003

In June investors were curious to see whether their forecasts would prove true hoping that trading on the stock exchange would be active as expected. This made June different from the summer months of the past year and helped to preserve the trading trends of the current year's second quarter. Investors exhibited most interest in alcohol companies, privatization tenders of which were closed in June, energy companies undergoing preparation for privatization, Lietuvos Dujos AB, in which the Russia