2013/06/18 13:44 - TORA, the leading provider of advanced trading technology and financial services, today announced that Brian Tafaro has been appointed as Managing Director and co-head of TORA Liquidity Services. He will be based in the U.S. and focused on client coverage and sales in Japan and other Asian markets.
2013/06/06 08:59 - On May 16, the SEC updated its Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations stating that the OTCQX and OTCQB marketplaces are now considered "established public markets" for the purposes of establishing a public market price when registering securities for resale in equity line financings on SEC Forms S-1 or S-3.
2013/05/23 08:01 - Millennium Information Technologies ('MillenniumIT'), part of diversified international exchange business, London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE), is today delighted to announce the appointment of John Mackay 'Mack' Gill, as its new CEO.
2012/07/06 16:00 - Baobab Resources (LON:BAO), the iron, base and precious metals explorer with a portfolio of mineral projects in Mozambique, is pleased to announce a placing of 50,000,000 ordinary shares ('Ordinary Shares') in the Company (the 'Placing Shares') at a price of 8p, raising GBP4,000,000 before expenses (the 'Placing').
2012/03/28 20:49 - London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) and the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) today announce that they have signed an exclusive "Letter of Intent" (LoI) to collaborate across five key business areas.
2012/01/12 13:00 - Asian Activities Report for January 12, 2012 includes: China's liquor maker Wuliangye (SHE:000858) says that the Group has topped the Chinese liquor industry by achieving a total revenue of RMB 20.2 billion in 2011; Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) has unveiled Logitech HD Pro 920, the Company's first video webcam that makes video calls at full HD resolution; Toyo Engineering Corporation (TYO:6330) has won a contract to install topsides units for a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) system to be used in oilfield exploitation in Brazil; NEC Corporation (TYO:6701) has announced the successful experimental demonstration of 1.15-Tb/s ultra-long haul optical transmission over 10,000 kilometers using optical superchannel technology.
2012/01/05 13:00 - Asian Activities Report for January 5, 2012 includes: China Titans Energy Technology Group (HKG:2188) says that its subsidiary Zhuhai Titans Automatic Technology has received an Outstanding Contribution Enterprise Award from the local government of Hengqin New Area, Zhuhai City, China; CK Life Sciences (HKG:0775) has signed an agreement to acquire Australia-based Peaty Trading Group and its related assets for approximately A$31 million; Marubeni Corporation (TYO:8002) says that its subsidiary Marubeni Access is now providing international IP-VPN service, named VECTANT Global IP-VPN to Japanese companies' overseas subsidiaries; Toray Industries Inc. (TYO:3402) has restructured its research and development bases in Shanghai and Nantong, China.
2011/11/11 11:38 - Asian Activities Report for November 11, 2011 includes: Hastings Rare Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) announces the results of a recent sampling programme at the Yangibana Project in Western Australia; iCash Payment Systems Limited (ASX:ICP) has determined to delay the targeted completion date of the proposed acquisition of further interest in NeoICP Korea Inc.; Globe Metals & Mining (ASX:GBE) has signed an agreement to acquire up to 90% interest in a titanium-vanadium-iron project in Mozambique; Mission NewEnergy Limited (NASDAQ:MNEL) (ASX:MBT) will build a major waste material processing facility in Malaysia.
2011/08/17 12:00 - Asian Activities Report for August 17, 2011 includes: SMS Management & Technology Limited (ASX:SMX) recorded a strong growth in the 2010-2011 financial year; Orpheus Energy Limited (ASX:OEG) updated on its B26 coal joint venture project in Indonesia; Boral Limited (ASX:BLD) is to acquire Lafarge's 50% interest in Lafarge Boral Gypsum Asia; Nemex Resources Limited (ASX:NXR) announced the results of 17 ironstone samples from its Coastal Project in western Guinea.
2011/07/21 10:37 - This year's conference, titled "Mongolia: Capital Raising and Investment" was the fifth edition of its kind to be organized by Frontier Securities. Having grown year on year in terms of importance since 2007, this conference has become a major event for anyone interested in exploring the latest developments in Mongolia's business environment from key direct sources.
2011/06/11 11:59 - London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) ("LSEG") today announced that it has been selected to provide clearing technology services for a new cross-market Central Counterparty (CCP) mechanism for Central and Eastern European (CEE) capital markets. The new platform, called CCP.CEE, will facilitate a standardised cross-regional clearing infrastructure for CEE markets, initially in Vienna, Prague, Ljubljana and Budapest.
2011/05/10 13:00 - 2nd Annual Smart Grid China Summit 2011 will be held on June 9-10 in Beijing, China. It will leverage on advanced technologies and equipments in tapping the burgeoning smart grid market. The 1st annual event in 2010 was a great success and attracted more than 150 delegates from the smart grid industry, 10% of which are from grid operators and power distributors, 27% from primary and secondary equipment suppliers, 24% from IT technology & service providers, 18% from R&D institutes and 14% from consultants and investors.
2011/03/24 09:10 - Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company today became the first Vietnamese company to list on the London Stock Exchange. The company, which raised $56.5m on admission to the Exchange's Professional Securities Market ["PSM"], is also the first Vietnamese incorporated company to issue equity outside Vietnam. The company's GDRs will be traded on the London Stock Exchange's international order book, with Deutsche Bank acting as the custodian and depositary.
2011/02/15 00:19 - The London Stock Exchange's (LON:LSE) UK cash markets have today migrated to a new ultra low-latency trading platform - Millennium Exchange. Developed by London Stock Exchange Group's leading trading technology business MillenniumIT, Millennium Exchange is a highly scalable, multi-asset class trading platform, offering the Exchange's clients superior technical performance, ultra low-latency and enhanced functionality.
2011/02/04 16:15 - Morningstar Japan K.K. (OSA:4765) and the Gomez Consulting Co., Ltd. (OSA:3813) have mutually agreed to the acquisition through stock swaps of 100% (one-hundred percent) ownership of the Gomez Consulting Co., Ltd. by Morningstar Japan K.K. 2.2 common shares of the Morningstar Japan K.K. will be equal to 1.0 share of the Gomez Consulting Co., Ltd.
2011/01/19 08:49 - London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) ("LSEG") and the Mongolian State Property Committee ("SPC") today announce that they have signed an exclusive Strategic Partnership Agreement to restructure and develop the Mongolian Stock Exchange ("MSE").
2011/01/10 13:30 - Australian Market Report of January 10, 2011 includes: Strzelecki Metals Limited (ASX:STZ) was granted a copper exploration licence in Poland; Botswana Metals Limited (ASX:BML) announced additional laboratory results at its Dibete prospect in Botswana; GRG International Limited (ASX:GRG) secured its first ATM sales in India; Avalon Minerals Limited (ASX:AVI) is to raise A$10.4m to fund Viscaria Copper and Iron Ore Project in Sweden.
2010/10/18 13:28 - Trevor Skyes is one Australia's leading finance writers. In a journalistic career spanning more than half a century, he has been Editor of The Bulletin, Editor-in-Chief of Australian Business and Assistant Editor of The Australian Financial Review. He is also the creator of the Pierpont column in which he assumes the identity of a crusty old clubman who surveys the financial world and its scandals through the bottom of a brandy glass at the Croesus Club.
2010/07/28 20:24 - London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) and India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) today signed a Letter of Intent to evaluate joint strategic business opportunities, and to co-operate together more closely in the future.
2010/07/28 13:55 - Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, will address the World Capital Markets Symposium (WCMS) in Kuala Lumpur on 27-28 September 2010, marking his speaking debut in Malaysia, the organizers of the Symposium announced on Wednesday. Wales, who founded the free, multi-lingual virtual encyclopedia in 2001, will join policy-makers and financial industry experts in sharing their thoughts at the Symposium, with the theme "Transforming Capital Markets: Leadership, Change and Governance".
2010/07/16 17:00 - The World Capital Markets Symposium (WCMS), to be hosted by the Securities Commission Malaysia on 27-28 September 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, will once again bring to Asia a truly unique platform aimed at providing participants with varied perspectives and insights into the opportunities presented to the international financial services industry to change business as usual by rethinking leadership and governance principles.
2010/07/08 17:37 - FINANCE VIDEO: London Stock Exchange: Naomitsu Abe Speaks with Yuji Iwasaki in Mongolia
2010/06/08 10:04 - The Directors of D'Aguilar Gold Limited (ASX:DGR) are pleased to draw the attention of shareholders to last night's announcement by Solomon Gold Plc (LON:SOLG) regarding its maiden inferred resource estimate from the Rannes Prospect held by the Queensland-based Central Minerals Pty Ltd.
2010/06/03 12:15 - Frontier Securities is organizing an annual conference, under the title "Mongolia: Capital Raising", which will be taking place at Chinggis Khaan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar, on June 15-16, 2010. This annual conference focuses on capital raising by Mongolian private sector as well as the Mongolian government by way of privatization and/or sovereign bond issue.
2010/05/25 13:30 - The Australian shares gave up most of yesterday's gains this morning with the benchmark ASX200 index retreated 1.7 per cent due to uncertainty over Europe economy. Wall Street overnight finished sharply lower as rescue of a Spanish savings bank triggered new fears over the eurozone debt issues.
2010/05/14 13:30 - The Australian shares gave up 1 per cent shortly after the market opened on Friday led by banks and big miners. The weak commodities prices and decline in Wall Street dented the local market. Today Asian markets also broadly fell after the poor lead from the US.
2010/01/08 22:47 - During December, 13.3 million equity trades, with a combined value of GBP108.4 billion (EUR120.5 billion), were carried out across the electronic order books of London Stock Exchange Group during December.
2009/12/30 09:20 - A record GBP82.5 billion was raised through new and further issues of equity on the London Stock Exchange during the course of 2009, an increase of 16 per cent on the total for 2008, itself a record year.
2009/12/21 18:06 - London Stock Exchange Group plc (LON:LSE) (LSEG) and Turquoise Trading Limited (Turquoise) today announced their agreement to create a new pan-European trading venture through a merger of the businesses of Turquoise and Baikal Global Limited (Baikal).
2009/11/19 11:31 - London Stock Exchange (LON:LSE) announces that it will introduce a new order-driven trading service for bonds. This new electronic order book will be available for a select number of gilts and UK corporate bonds and will offer private investors with an on-screen secondary market in London-listed debt securities for the first time. This new service is expected to go live in February next year.
2009/10/19 20:39 - London Stock Exchange Group plc (LON:LSE) announced today it has completed its acquisition of MillenniumIT for $US30 million. The transaction will provide the Group with a new, high performance trading platform and an agile, efficient, in-house IT development capability and give MillenniumIT the backing it needs to enable it to develop further its global exchange technology business.
2009/09/22 18:31 - MTS, the leading market in Europe for the trading of fixed income securities, announces that the Board of Directors, chaired by Luigi Spaventa, yesterday appointed Jack Jeffery as Chief Executive of MTS S.p.A..
2009/09/16 16:45 - London Stock Exchange Group plc (LON:LSE) has today agreed to acquire MillenniumIT, a Sri Lankan-based technology services company serving the capital markets industry, for US$30 million.
2009/08/11 10:34 - Spark, an advanced market information platform for active investors trading the Australian and New Zealand equity markets, today announced the launch of an enhanced news service.
2008/12/17 12:26 - BCA expands its self-service network with Wincor Nixdorf (FRA:WIN)(PINK:WNXDF) kiosk and ATM technologies Indonesia's BCA has selected Wincor Nixdorf's kiosk and cash dispensing technologies for the expansion of its multi-channel self-service network. BCA is Indonesia's largest transactional bank with more than 7 million customers and long considered one of the most progressive financial institutions in the country.
2008/12/02 13:00 - Yesterday, the S&P/ASX-200 share index fell about 1.6%, or 61.3 points, to 3681.2, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 53.7 points, or 1.5%, at 3619. Some US economic research institutions admitted the recession actually started last December, and now the questions are how bad and how long it will be.
2008/02/05 10:23 - The Board of IT&e Limited ("IT&e" or "the Company")(ASX: ITE)(AIM: ITEL), a leading provider of financial software and consulting services to the global financial markets, is pleased to announce that the LCH.Clearnet Group (LCH.C) has selected IT&e's RAZOR product as its Clearing House's Risk Management System.
2007/07/03 21:02 - Under the leadership of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG), Atos Origin, the Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic Games, today announced it has completed the IT system architecture for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on schedule.
2006/07/27 11:07 - BilltoBill Limited has signed a Payment Services Agreement with Shanghai Heshu Network Technology Co Ltd to support the on-line sales and payment of game-point cards in China.
2005/12/15 08:56 - Asian Development Bank (ASX: ADB) plans to increase its lending to India to $2.65 billion in 2008, according to a new Country Strategy and Program Update. The level was $1.12 billion in 2005.
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