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NASDAQ OMX-Trading Statistics September 2012
Significant increase in trading volumes compared to August-volumes still down from last year
October 1, 2012--NASDAQ OMX today publishes monthly trade statistics for the Nordic and Baltic markets.
Below follows a summary of the statistics for September 2012:
The share trading on NASDAQ OMX Nordic decreased by 15.1 % to a daily average of 2.0bn EUR, compared to 2.4bn EUR in September 2011. Compared to the previous month, August 2012, the daily average increased by 26.7%.
Derivatives trading decreased by 10 % to a daily average of 519,069 contracts, compared with 577,456 contracts in September 2011.
ETF trading1 (Exchange Traded Funds) decreased by 52.6 % to a daily average of 55m EUR compared to 115m EUR in September 2011.
UniCredit launches products on all short and leverage indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange
October 1, 2012--The Vienna Stock Exchange welcomes UniCredit onemarkets as the first issuer of structured products on all short and leverage indices calculated by the exchange. UniCredit is one of the most active issuers of products on indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Short and leverage indices address investors who are willing to take risks and who want to participate in the development of a specific index. The indices are tied to an underlying index and reproduce its daily performance with a fixed leverage. The Vienna Stock Exchange offers short indices as well as double short indices (factor 2) and leverage indices with factors 2 and 4 on the following reference indices: ATX, CECE EUR and RDX EUR. All indices are designed to be used as underlying for structured products.
The index range of the Vienna Stock Exchange enjoys high popularity among international investors because of the high quality, uniform calculation methodology and preciseness. Products issued on the indices can be traded on all European markets. Most products worldwide with a reference to Eastern Europe are based on indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange. Most of the issuers and licensees come from the United Kingdom (21%), followed by Germany (11%), Scandinavia (11%) and Austria (11%).
For further information on the indices of the Vienna Stock Exchange, please visit www.indices.cc.
IMKB and Vienna Stock Exchange join forces to launch two new indices
October 1, 2012--The stock exchanges of Istanbul and Vienna have joined forces in a unique cooperation project and launched the IBTX (Istanbul Traded Index) and IBTX Banking today.
The IBTX is calculated based on the prices of the twenty most actively traded shares of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. The IBTX Banking index consists of the most liquid Turkish banking stocks. Both indices can be used as a benchmark and underlying for standardized derivatives (futures and options) as well as an underlying for structured products (warrants, index certificates and ETFs). Investors have already demonstrated keen interest, especially in the IBTX, and two Austrian issuers have already announced their intention to immediately start issuing IBTX certificates.
“We, as Borsa İstanbul, are very glad to have signed such an agreement with the Vienna Stock Exchange. We believe that this index project will serve the interests of both exchanges, strengthening cooperation and contributing to our efforts in dealing with the global challenges faced by regional exchanges,” said Ibrahim M. Turhan, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. The Istanbul Stock Exchange is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, with a market capitalization that increased steadily over the past few years and reached EUR 210.4 billion by the end of August. Currently 398 companies can be traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange and the monthly trading volume stands at approx. EUR 33.1 billion. This cooperation highlights the international index competence displayed by the Vienna Stock Exchange, with most CEE-related structured products worldwide being currently based on its indices. The Vienna Stock Exchange calculates a total of 82 indices, whereof 62 track national, regional and sector developments in the CEE/CIS area.
Credit Suisse Said to Consider Merging Its Asset-Management Unit
September 29, 2012--Bloomberg reports: Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN), Switzerland’s second-biggest bank, is considering combining its asset-management unit with the private and investment banking divisions, a person familiar with the matter said.
The Zurich-based bank hasn’t made a decision on the consolidation, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.
Barclays opens new London gold vault
The first British bank-owned gold vault to open in over five years, Barclays is expecting demand for space from pension funds, central banks and sovereign wealth funds.
September 29, 2012--Too much gold and just nowhere to put it? A high security solution to bullion storage issues is at hand at a secret location somewhere inside London's orbital motorway-the first British bank-owned gold vault to open in over five years.
Barclays (BARC.L) new vault anticipates demand from pension funds, central banks and sovereign wealth funds who have been scooping up the precious metal that has doubled in value since late 2008.
BlackRock Buys Stake in Moscow Bourse, Vedomosti Says
September 28, 2012--BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world's biggest asset manager, bought a stake in the Moscow Exchange from the Russia Direct Investment Fund, a government-backed private-equity fund, Vedomosti reported,
citing two unidentified people close to the bourse’s shareholders.
The RDIF owns 2.7 percent of the bourse. The newspaper didn’t identify the size of the stake BlackRock bought.
EU Derivatives Rulebook Set to Increase Transparency .
September 27, 2012--Companies that engage in foreign-exchange hedging of less than $3 billion will be exempt from new rules forcing nearly all derivatives transactions to be reported and routed through central counterparty clearing houses.
In a rulebook published on Thursday, the European Securities and Markets Authority set standards for over-the-counter interest rate, credit, equity, foreign-exchange and commodity trading ahead of the implementation of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation by the end of the year. It also set a framework for regulating clearing houses, such as Eurex Clearing AG and LCH. Clearnet Ltd., for the first time ever.
ESMA publishes the official translations of the "Guidelines on certain aspects of the MiFID compliance function requirements" (ESMA/2012/388)
September 28, 2012--Today's publication triggers a transitional period of two months within which national competent authorities have to confirm to ESMA whether they intend to comply with the guidelines, or otherwise explain the reasons for non-compliance.
view the official translations of the "Guidelines on certain aspects of the MiFID compliance function requirements" (ESMA/2012/388)
Source urges industry to challenge regulators
September 27, 2012--The chief executive of one of Europe's largest exchange traded fund providers says he is “"disappointed" that the asset management industry did not take more of a stand against regulators during their recent probe into ETFs.
Speaking at the Irish Funds Industry Association conference in Dublin last week, Source’s Ted Hood told delegates that it was “something of a shame” that an industry that has “delivered on its promises to investors” had been “put under a cloud” as a result of intense regulatory interest in ETFs.
EU watchdog backs down on stock option hedging
September 27, 2012--Companies will not be penalized for using derivatives to "insure" their stock option plans under final European Union rules to make the $650 trillion market safer and more transparent.
World leaders agreed in 2009 that derivatives should be centrally cleared and recorded to provide the kind of snapshot of positions that regulators lacked when dealing with the collapse of U.S. bank Lehman Brothers in September, 2008.
