The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has announced its plan to issue Exchangeable Government Bonds by the end of first quarter 2004. The first offer will be approximately NTD 30 40 billion (USD 880 million to USD 1.2 billion) with a
The Bank of New York says AccessEdge, the browser based portal that serves as its client interface to RepoEdge the Bank's proprietary global collateral management system is live. "AccessEdge is part of our ongoing effort to offer our clients innovative
DnB Holding ASA and Gjensidige NOR ASA have received approval from the Norwegian Ministry of Finance to merge and establish a new financial services group called DnB NOR ASA. The Ministry of Finance has also granted permission to merge the
Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) recently announced guidelines to introduce "when issued transactions" of Japanese Government Bonds (JGB), which allows market participants to deal JGB trades earlier than the issuing day and execute the settlement on or after the issuing
The International Securities Market Association (ISMA) and the ISMA Centre at the University of Reading have appointed Chisholm Roth, a developer of customised training programmes for investment bankers, to manage a new online distance learning programme for them. The International
MTS S.p.A. and Centralna Tabela Ofert (CeTO) announced today that they have signed a letter of intent for the implementation of a domestic Polish government bond market, based on the MTS system. CeTO is the designated Polish electronic Treasury securities
The European Repo Council (ERC) has published its amended repo trading practice guidelines. The new guidelines, which are effective from 1 October 2003, can be downloaded from the ISMA web site that day.
MTSNext says Danske Bank has licensed the EuroMTS 5 7 and 15+ year maturity band indices for use as underlying references in a new 3 year maturity "Himalayan" structured product, issued by KommuneKredit, and listed this week on the Copenhagen