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ETF Stat December 2010 Borsa Italiana

January 17, 2011--The ETF Stat December 2010 of the Borsa Italiana are now available.

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Source: Borsa Italiana


NYSE Liffe Commodity Derivatives Record-Breaking Performance - 2010 Highlights

January 17, 2011--NYSE Liffe’s Commodity Derivatives trading volumes reached new highs in 2010, experiencing double digit growth both in futures and options. Annual volume grew by 37% year on year, reaching a new record of 16,679,006 contracts against 2008’s volume of 13,245,517 contracts.

Total futures volume in 2010 of 14,133,913 contracts increased by 33% against 2009, while total options volume 2,545,093 contracts increased by 65%.

Ian Dudden, Director, Commodity Derivatives, said: “With year on year growth of 37%, 2010 was a particularly strong year for NYSE Liffe’s Commodities portfolio. Strong gains were seen across a broad range of products, both in futures as well as options.

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Source: NYSE Euronext


Russian IOB stock dividend futures launched on EDX London

First Russian stock dividends to be traded on Exchange
LSE Group broadens its derivatives offering
January 17, 2011--Today EDX London, London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) international derivatives market has gone live with dividend futures on six Russian International Order Book (IOB) underlyings. This is the first time Russian dividend futures will be traded on exchange.

Nicolas Bertrand, Head of Equities and Derivatives for London Stock Exchange Group, said:

“The launch of this new service on EDX London demonstrates our innovative approach to product development, giving investors the ability to trade or hedge dividend exposure to Russia on exchange for the first time.”

“London has long been the natural home for Russian companies looking to gain access to international capital. This, coupled with the world’s most liquid order book for GDRs, and the broad range of Russian derivatives products we now offer, reinforces London’s credentials as a global gateway for trading in Russian instruments and markets.”

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Source: London Stock Exchange Group


FESE European Equity Market Report - December 2010 Figures

January 17, 2011--The FESE European Equity Market Report - December 2010 Figures is now available.

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Source: FESE


European securitisations face S&P downgrade

January 17, 2011--Nearly half of all European securitisations could be downgraded following changes in the criteria Standard & Poor’s uses to measure the creditworthiness of deals.

Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article - The criteria, which cover how third parties involved in deals are evaluated, are global but the new changes will more heavily affect European deals because of their higher use of counterparties to provide interest rate and currency swaps.

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Source: FT.com


Deutsche launches research for index investors

A research service specifically for index investors has been launched by Deutsche Bank.
January 17, 2011--Deutsche claimed the launch was a first for the investment research industry.
Fundamental Index Views, the first of which analyses prospects for the German Dax30 equity index, will become a regular feature of the bank’s research output for institutional investors.

Deutsche Bank said with more investors seeking to take market exposure via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in particular, as well as other index-based products, it has identified demand for a service dedicated to regular analysis of the index market.

The reports will be published without individual product recommendations, and will focus purely on analysing indices.

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Source: FTAdvisor


Turkish banks to electronically transfer gold

January 14, 2011--?stanbul Gold Exchange (?AB) Chairman Osman Saraç has said they are working on a project enabling Turkish banks to transfer gold between accounts.
Saraç, the head of ?AB, told the Anatolia news agency on Friday that they are working on a system where people can transfer gold, similar to how they send money with the Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) system. The amount of gold transferred will then appear in their accounts and they will be able to physically withdraw their gold from the ?AB.

Within the framework of forming the gold exchange system, the ?AB has conducted talks with the Turkish Banks Association (TBB) and the Association of Turkish Participation Banks (TKBB).

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Source: Todays Zaman


ECB: MFI statistics 2011: the number of monetary financial institutions in the euro area and in the EU decreases further

January 14, 2011--On 1 January 2011 the total number of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) [1] in the euro area stood at 7,865. There is a net decrease of 211 units (2.6%) in comparison with the situation a year ago. The decline was spread across the whole of the euro area. The number of MFIs in the euro area went up by 37 units when Estonia joined the euro area on 1 January 2011. There were 9,921 MFIs in the European Union (EU) as a whole, a net decrease of 271 units.

Number of MFIs

On 1 January 2011 there were 7,865 MFIs resident in the euro area, compared with 8,076 on 1 January 2010. In relative terms, the decrease in France and Greece of 7.1% and 6.7% respectively was particularly pronounced. In absolute terms, France (-92), Ireland (-31), Luxembourg (-28) and Italy (-25) were the main contributors to the net decrease of 211 units in the euro area.

Despite the enlargement of the euro area through the accession of Greece (2001), Slovenia (2007), Cyprus and Malta (both 2008), Slovakia (2009) and Estonia (2011), the number of MFIs in the euro area has decreased by 20.2% or 1,991 institutions since 1 January 1999. On 1 January 2011 Germany and France accounted for 40.8% of all euro area MFIs, a share similar to that recorded on 1 January 2010.

On 1 January 2011 there were 9,921 MFIs resident in the EU, a net decrease of 271 units (-2.7%) since 1 January 2010. Compared with the situation on 1 January 1999 (10,909 MFIs in the EU), there has been a net decrease of 988 units (-9.1%), despite the addition of 1,608 MFIs on 1 May 2004, when ten new Member States acceded, and of a further 72 MFIs on 1 January 2007, when Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU.

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Source: ECB


CESR publishes Consultation on CESR’s Guidelines on Risk Measurement and the Calculation of Global Exposure for certain types of structured UCITS

January 13, 2011--Publication of the responses to the Consultation on CESR’s Guidelines on Risk Measurement and the Calculation of Global Exposure for certain types of structured UCITS

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Source: CESR


‘Turkey to grow twice world economic growth in 2010’

January 13, 2011--The World Bank suggests that Turkey will double the world economic growth, which is estimated at 3.9 percent, with a growth figure of 8.1 percent in 2010.
According to the January edition of the Global Economic Prospects 2011 report prepared by the World Bank, Turkey’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to register 8.1 percent for this past year.

The growth of the world’s output in 2010 is estimated to be around 3.9 percent, while the growth figures for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries is estimated at 2.7 percent. The estimates for the GDP growth of the eurozone sit at 1.7 percent. This shows that Turkey is expected to double the GDP growth of the world.

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Source: Todays Zaman


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