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CFTC allows Turkish Derivatives Exchange’s Futures contract based on ISE-30 to be offered and sold in the U.S.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Office of General Counsel issued a no-action letter permitting the offer and sale in the United States of Turkish Derivatives Exchange’s futures contract based on the Istanbul Stock Exchange 30 Stock Index (ISE-30).
31 August 2010
Shanghai Stock Exchange takes seven measures to crack down on insider dealing
To strengthen the supervision over insider dealing, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has recently held a special meeting on supervision work to study the arrangements of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for cracking down on insider dealing and pledge to give its first priority in frontline market supervision to deterring insider dealing and take several measures to strengthen the supervision over insider dealing.
31 August 2010
NYSE Euronext completes migration of NYSE and NYSE Amex to U.S. data center
NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced that its U.S. data center in Mahwah , N.J. has successfully completed the migration of more than 4,500 equities issues listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Amex. With the NYSE and NYSE Amex equities primary matching engines now inside the new data center, NYSE Euronext will begin the migration of its other markets as well as NYSE Technologies’ diverse product portfolio that includes co-location services, direct data feeds, trading infrastructure on-demand, SuperFeed and its Risk Management Gateway (RMG) service.
31 August 2010
CME Group to offer customers exposure to benchmark U.S. Treasury securities
CME Group announced the launch of On-the-Run U.S. Treasury futures beginning Monday, October 25, 2010. These new futures contracts will provide market participants with efficient and cost-effective price exposure to 2-Year, 5-Year, and 10-Year U.S. Treasury on-the-run yields. The new contracts will be listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of the CBOT.
31 August 2010
NASDAQ OMX and DWS Investments launch Volatility Target Index to manage investment risk
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and DWS Investments, the U.S. retail unit of Deutsche Bank's global Asset Management division, today jointly announce the launch of the DWS NASDAQ-100 Volatility Target Index (Nasdaq:VOLNDX), a new benchmark designed to provide exposure to the NASDAQ-100 Index(R) in a risk-controlled manner.
27 August 2010
Views
The global exchange industry must speak to regulators with a single voice
believe that as an industry, we must act together to grasp this opportunity to reshape our economy towards a far more sustainable footing, based on the key characteristics of exchange trading: transparency, neutrality and liquidity. From my ...
by Xavier Rolet, CEO, LSEG
23 August 2010
International cooperation amongst market operators does exist
Much has been said of the need for greater cross-market cooperation between regulators in light of recent events. Whilst this is not a new issue, it has been given greater focus since the financial crisis that led to a number of governments around ...
by Andrew Dodsworth, Chairman, ISG
23 August 2010
Excerpts from Tom Kloet’s speech at the 2010 IOSCO Conference in Montreal
Through the economic crisis, while credit markets failed, banks ceased lending and many financial institutions went hat in hand to governments for survival, organized, transparent stock and derivatives exchanges performed well. While the news ...
by Tom Kloet, CEO, TMX Group
23 August 2010