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Date 02/05/2011
FINRA Bars Illinois Broker For Insider Trading
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced that a former registered representative, Michael Hendry, has been barred from the securities industry for engaging in insider trading and for failing to respond truthfully to questioning by investigators in FINRA's Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence (OFDMI). Hendry was also fined nearly $70,000, which represents the unlawful profits he received from the transactions.
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Date 02/05/2011
Statement By SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar: The Abysmal Lack Of Diversity In Corporate Boardrooms Is Growing Worse
Today, the Alliance for Board Diversity released a report, Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards — 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census, that confirmed what many of us have known for some time. The abysmal statistics regarding the lack of diversity in Corporate America are growing worse. This report found that women and minorities lost ground in America’s corporate boardroom between 2004 and 2010.
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Date 02/05/2011
NYSE Euronext Announces 2011 Annual Meeting Shareholder Vote Results And Names Dominique Cerutti To Its Board Of Directors
At the Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting held on April 28, 2011, NYSE Euronext (NYX) shareholders:
- Elected the full slate of 16 director nominees to the Company’s Board of Directors,with an average approval rate of 80% of votes cast,
- Ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011,
- Did not approve a Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter,
- Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, the Company’s executive compensation,
- Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, a frequency of every one year for holding the non-binding, advisory vote on executive compensation,
- Approved a stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings, and
- Approved a stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent.
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Date 02/05/2011
NASDAQ OMX Group And IntercontinentalExchange Announce Exchange Offer For NYSE Euronext - Reaffirms Seriousness Of Their Offer And Continued Willingness To Enter Into Discussions
NASDAQ OMX and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) today announced that each of their respective Boards of Directors have approved their intent to commence an exchange offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of NYSE Euronext common stock in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $11 billion. Under the terms of the offer, each share of NYSE Euronext would be exchanged for $14.24 in cash, 0.4069 shares of NASDAQ OMX common stock and 0.1436 shares of ICE common stock. If NASDAQ OMX and ICE are successful in acquiring shares pursuant to the offer, they would consummate a second step merger as soon as possible thereafter to acquire the remaining NYSE Euronext shares for the same consideration per share.
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Date 02/05/2011
smartTrade Technologies Completes CME Group Connectivity Certification For Foreign Exchange Futures - smartTrade Maintains The Deepest FX Connectivity In The Market Today With The Addition Of CME Group FX Futures Connector
smartTrade Technologies, an industry leader in cross-asset liquidity management solutions today announced the certification to CME Group for FX Futures using the smartTrade Technologies LiquidityConnect™ component. The addition of FX futures from CME Group will enable organizations to benefit from accessing and trading on the liquidity provided by the CME Group in their FX Futures product suite. CME Group FX futures contracts are listed by and subject to the rules of CME.
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Date 02/05/2011
The Options Industry Council Announces April Options Trading Volume Down 7%
The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 335,425,947 total options contracts were traded in April, 7.02 percent less than the 360,753,581 contracts traded in April 2010. While April monthly volume was lower in 2011 compared to 2010, last month remains the second highest April on record for volume.
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Date 02/05/2011
Fidessa Extends Trading Services To Canada On Platform Equinix - Toronto Data Center Chosen To Support Fidessa Expansion Into Canada
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Fidessa Canada corporation, part of Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) and provider of high-performance trading, investment management and information solutions for the world’s financial community, will host its Canadian trading platform in Equinix’s Toronto TR1 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. Fidessa is already present in several Equinix IBX data centers, including London and Singapore.
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Date 02/05/2011
DIFC Hosts Economics Workshop On Regulatory Reform And The Banking Sector - Focus On The Impact Of Basel III On MENA Region - Basel III Has Intensified The Urgency To Develop Regional Capital Markets
DIFC, the financial and business gateway between the regional emerging markets and the world, today held an economics workshop on regulatory reform and the banking sector. The event brought together financiers and business leaders to network, share knowledge and discuss the latest trends in risk management, regulatory capital, disclosure and governance.
The workshop focused on the impact of Basel III as a new global regulatory standard for global financial institutions, with the emphasis on its implementation and subsequent effects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. -
Date 02/05/2011
BM&FBOVESPA Launches Four New Indices
As of Monday, BM&FBOVESPA starts the calculation and publication in real time of four new indices: the BM&FBOVESPA Brazil Broad-Based Index (IBrA), BM&FBOVESPA Dividend Index (IDIV), BM&FBOVESPA Basic Materials Index (IMAT) and the BM&FBOVESPA Public Utilities Index (UTIL). The new indices will help diversify investment strategies and make it possible to create Exchange-Trade Funds (ETFs).
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Date 02/05/2011
ISE Reports Business Activity For April 2011
- Dividend trades made up 4.6% of industry volume in April 2011.
- ISE is third largest equity options exchange in April with market share of 19.2%, excluding dividend trades.
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