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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.

Reshaping the Economy

In this episode of Startup Stories, we present to you the McDonald's Story, and the Biography and Success Story of Ray Kroc, the man behind the rise of McDonald's