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This Week in Capital Markets Pt1: Fidessa white paper, Redkite 04/05/2012 by Hayden Richards

This Week in Capital Markets Pt2: BOX Options Exchange, SGX, Raj Rajaratnam 04/05/2012 by Hayden Richards

This Week, The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against City Capital Corp. and two former executives for allegedly running an $11 million Ponzi scheme that targeted socially conscious investors in church congregations. The government alleges Ephren W. Taylor II, 29 years old, made numerous false statements to lure investors into two investment programs being offered . Elsewhere, BlackRock's planned bond platform is looking to bypass the middleman. But whether the strategy will bear fruition is a another question

Hopefully the subject heading caught your attention, if it didn't, it should. Major Financial and Capital Markets Industry players are finally latching onto the fact, that there might actually be something to social media and online engagement. 75% of Global Stock Market are on App Interface according to a recent Heat Map Displays. Most recent is Intel, whom today started a Twitter feed, Facebook page and Linked In group, in an effort to spur discussion of global financial markets online, among industry professionals .Yesterday the trade news reported that the original chief executive of Chi-X Europe, Tony Mackay, is going to launch what it termed a 'Facebourse' by the end of the year. Trademark anyone?

iTrinegy has announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named INE Enterprise as a finalist for the 7th Annual Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the Monitoring and Testing Category. These industry awards honor the achievements and recognize excellence within an information technology category. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, 8th May, 2012 in Las Vegas, USA

Neonet's tailored service offering for sell-side clients strengthened by NGM/NDX access, enabling trading in a wider range of asset classes on Nordic markets. Neonet, the independent execution services provider, today announced the addition of Nordic Growth Market (NGM) and Nordic Derivatives Exchange (NDX) to its connected markets. Starting with the launch in 2011 of its ESP (Execution Service Provider) service package tailored for sell-side clients, Neonet has committed to extend its reach into new trading venues and support more complex financial instruments, in order to meet the diverse requirements of brokerage clients...

With three times the population of all the Gulf countries combined, Bangladesh is the sleeping giant of the Islamic finance world. A burgeoning urban middle class, an active microfinance sector, and strong support from regulators gives Islamic finance an historic opportunity to shine in this country. And with only an estimated 14,000 bankers currently serving the Islamic finance sector, the demand for a locally-available, globally-recognized certification is now at its highest.

SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity, today announces the launch of its Managed Recovery Programme (MRP) across Europe, developed to support customers' business availability and eliminate issues associated with recovering complex IT environments. The launch is the latest example of SunGard's commitment to both enhance and standardise service excellence on a global basis, and follows on from the 2011 roll-out of its Enterprise Cloud Services.

Spread betting with City Index enables investors to take a position on a market's price movement - regardless of whether it is rising or falling. Following the downgrade of Spain's long-term sovereign credit rating on Friday 27 April 2012 by US-based financial services company Standard and Poor's (S&P); share prices on European markets such as the IBEX suffered a decline in Friday's trading.

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the leading energy futures exchange in the Middle East, announced today that its Membership Committee has approved the application of Marex North America LLC to become a Clearing Member with effect from April 26, 2012. Marex North America is a subsidiary of Marex Spectron, the world's largest privately owned broker of financial products in the commodities sector and a leader in brokering physical energy products. Marex Spectron becomes the 20th Clearing Member of the Exchange

Of all of the world's 100 largest economic entities in 2010, 42 (42%) are corporations. The largest, as in 2009 was Wal-Mart, whose 2010 revenues exceeded the GDPs of 171 countries making it the 25th largest economic entity in the world. The next group in terms of size is energy majors with the combined revenues of the five largest players (Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Sinopec and China National Petroleum) equivalent to 2.5% of global GDP in 2010. A key trend is the movement from West to East as global challengers from rapidly developing economies (RDEs) continue to grow their economic power - along with their countries. Among the Top 100 economic entities there are now 6 RDE companies versus just 1 in 2000, and looking at the Top 150 the number of RDE companies tripled between 2000 and 2010 to 15.

European customers benefit from unique features that help diversify risk and encourage peer learning OANDA Europe, a division of online trading company OANDA Corporation, is pleased to announce that European clients now have access to the company's new social trading platform, OANDA fxUnity. OANDA fxUnity is designed for aspiring currency traders who want a social, interactive trading experience in either real or practice environments - online or via mobile device

Researchers at the MIT today revealed the results of research on social trading behaviour within the eToro investment network, that demonstrated higher gains for financial traders that responded to copy trading recommendations. According to MIT researcher Dr. Yaniv Altshuler's research, providing the name of a specific `guru' to copy enabled online traders to uplift earnings by 6-10% compared with trades used without social networks and 4% when compared with unguided copying where copied gurus were selected without the benefit of a specific recommendation. This research suggests that "tuning" social trading networks by providing carefully selected copy recommendations can increase gains and boosts average returns per user, while preventing "bubbles" in the market

Trigon, an independent investment banking firm based in Poland and a member of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), has just gone live on SunGard's Valdi direct market access and order management solutions to support its business. Trigon will use Valdi for trading on the Polish exchange, FIX connectivity and trade order routing.