In Taiwan, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Bureau of Monetary Affairs (BOMA) have agreed to the launch of a short term bill futures market in the first half of this year. The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) is
The Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) has extended its clearing services for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) to include all TSE listed derivative instruments such as Japanese Government Bond (JGB) futures and options and Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) futures
The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) has finalised its integration of the New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange (NZFOE). The integration will take place on 11 March, by converting all open positions in NZFOE contracts to open positions in SFE contracts,
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) processed a record 29 million transactions on January 29, surpassing by 11.6 % the previous record of 26 million transactions set on June 6, 2003. DTCC, through its National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC)
OneChicago says 186,527 security futures contracts were traded at the Exchange in January, a 67% increase over January 2003. Open interest stood at 211,068 contracts January 30. Average daily volume was 9,326 contracts in January. Each single stock future contract
The EDX joint venture between Scandinavian IT and trading technology specialists OMHEX and the London Stock Exchange means that transactions in Scandinavian derivatives traded on EDX London will be now cleared by LCH.Clearnet. In June 2003, OMHEX and the London
The Philippine Central Securities Depository (PCD) says it will credit participants' bank accounts or issue cheques for cash dividend payments only upon receipt of funds from the issuer. Since the receipt date of funds depends on the date, time and
Twelve Italian blue chips will be traded at Eurex from 23 February, following the launch of a further nine new options on Italian equities. The three Italian equity options already listed at Eurex will be relaunched with what Deutsche Borse
The German stock exchanges turned over Euros 321 billion in January. The volume of transactions on XEtra alone was up 13%. The order book statistics, which are based on single counting of all transactions in the order book of Xetra
Eurex turned over 91.4 million contracts in January, 7 per cent higher than the volume posted in January 2003 (65 million contracts). The month's total corresponds to a daily average volume of 4.35 million contracts traded and cleared. The highest