A frantic day today as we prepare for Young Markets sponsored by Cinnober & Titanic Quarter Financial Services Centre.If you’re not here, there’s still time to watch the action as a virtual delegate online at http://youngmarkets.com.
Meanwhile shareholders say yes to ICE-NYX and a series of new markets, new segments and other opportunities abound across the board… Fascinating times indeed!
Public Markets
IntercontinentalExchange Stockholders Approve Acquisition Of NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext Shareholders Approve Acquisition by IntercontinentalExchange (subscription)
Wall Street Journal
PLY: Note that executive compensation had a sligthly lower acceptance than various other measures At NYX while overall the shareholders have accepted the vision of Jeff’s Brave New World. Good thinking on the part of shareholders too, he is the man who delivers.
Nasdaq OMX Announces Proposed Senior Notes Offering
Euro-denominated senior notes due 2021 with intent to use the net proceeds from the offering, together with cash on hand and/or revolving borrowings to fund the eSpeed platform etc.
Moscow Exchange Supporting Merger of Ukrainian Stock Exchanges
Ukrainian Journal
PLY: With de facto control of one already, Moscow is now looking to create a merged entity which will presumably feed into the sort of dynamic exchange Ukraine needs and which would serve effectively the bulk of the old USSR for capital…
WSE Looks To International Growth
Warsaw Business Journal
The Warsaw Stock Exchange wants to expand its international presence, the bourse’s CEO Adam Maciejewski told Puls Biznesu in an interview.
LCH.Clearnet Launches US Clearing Service (subscription)
Financial Times
PLY: I can well recall Phil Bruce in his then position as Deputy CEO of LCH discussing the idea of some form of Trans-Atlantic clearing facility during the @Markets conference in Boston when FIA briefly flirted with the dotcom bubble…
Head of Options Clearing Corp. to Retire
Crain’s Chicago Business (blog)
The OCC commences a search for a replacement to Wayne Luthringhausen and may split Chairman and CEO roles in two following the CBOE’s recent move in the same direction…
NASDAQ OMX Completes Acquisition of Thomson Reuters IR, PR and Multimedia Businesses
NASDAQ
Private Markets
Shenzhen to Let Small Firms Issue Exchangeable Bonds – IFR
Reuters
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) is planning a trial programme to allow small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to issue private exchangeable bonds..
New Zambian Derivatives Exchange
african.howzit.msn.com/
Bond and Derivatives exchange of Zambia will open for simulated trading June 12 ahead of live trading from July 11.
Changes in investors/shareholders
NYSE Euronext Plans to Sell Stake in MCX
Economic Times
NYSE Euronext is considering a fresh bid to sell its 4.79% stake in India’s premier commodity bourse MCX, after an earlier attempt failed in March this year.
The stake is currently valued at over Rs 200 crore (USD 35,3 mln).
Products
Eris Exchange Reduces Contract Size to $100k
Advanced Trading
The notional size of the Eris swap futures contracts were modified by a factor of 10 in response to user demand from buy side firms.
Indexes
CBOE and CME Team Up to Launch US Treasury ‘VIX’
ETF Strategy
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has teamed up with the CME Group (CME) to launch the CBOE/CBOT 10-year US Treasury Note Volatility Index (VXTNY).
Crowdfunding
Three Professors Share Crowdfunding Research
Forbes
Serious academic research in the nascent field of crowdfunding is limited, but Gordon Burtch of the University of Minnesota, Anindya Ghose of New York University and Sunil Wattal of Temple University have recently published their study of contribution patterns in crowdfunding.
Other stories
Turkey: More Derivatives On the Way
Oxford Business Group
A discussion of the series of shotgun marriages which have delivered derivatives capacity from TurkDex as ell as the Istandbul Gold Exchange to the Turkish exchange..