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Dreyfus files with the SEC

December 7, 2010--Dreyfus has filed an amended application for exmeptive relief with the SEC for actively-managed exchange-traded funds.

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Source: SEC.gov


ISE Partners with Structured Solutions to Launch Family of Brazilian-Based Sector Indexes

NEW YORK, December 7, 2010 – The International Securities Exchange (ISE) announced today that it has partnered with Structured Solutions AG, a leading global index service provider and creator of the Solactive index platform, to launch a family of five Brazilian sector indexes. The indexes will track the performance of Brazilian public companies that are active in the consumer products, utilities, financial services, industrial and materials industries.

The Solactive-ISE Brazilian indexes hold securities that are domiciled in Brazil and traded on BM&F Bovespa. ISE and Structured Solutions are focused on working with exchange-traded product issuers in Brazil and around the globe to launch innovative Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and structured products on the new family of indexes.

“We are incredibly pleased to partner with Structured Solutions to expand the global reach of ISE’s index business with the launch of this family of unique Brazilian-based sector indexes,” said Kris Monaco, ISE’s Director of New Product Development. “Brazil is one of the most closely followed emerging markets, and the new Solactive-ISE indexes will provide international and Brazilian-based investors alike with local benchmarks for the largest sectors in the Brazilian economy.”

“We are very glad to enter into a cooperation with ISE. With our new partner we will expand our international presence and offer valuable index concepts for global investors. Brazil is one of the most dynamic countries in the world and is a perfect starting point for our collaboration,” adds Steffen Scheuble, CEO of Structured Solutions.

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Source: International Securities Exchange (ISE)


Regulators push for ‘strict’ prop definition

December 6, 2010--US regulators are pressing for strict definitions of proprietary trading activities to be banned under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in a move that could anger bankers and some of their toughest critics.

The question facing regulators is whether detailed descriptions of forbidden activities would lead to stricter enforcement or would help sophisticated Wall Street traders find ways round the ban on banks trading on their own account.

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Source: FT.com


CME Group Announces the Launch of Three Additional E-Micro Forex Futures Contracts

December 6, 2010--CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of three new E-micro Forex futures contracts scheduled for Sunday, December 19, for trade date Monday, December 20. These contracts will be listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CME.

"These three new currency pairs will complement our existing suite of E-micro Forex contracts and provide our retail customers with a product that has the right risk/reward ratio for their financial risk management needs," said Derek Sammann, CME Group's Managing Director of FX and Interest Rate Products. "We continue to see strong growth in our existing E-micro contracts with average daily volume up 115 percent versus last year. The main reasons for this growth are CME Group's highly liquid and transparent markets, better customer awareness of the benefits of counterparty risk mitigation and our recent shift to physical delivery, which makes it easier to offset risk with our standard FX futures contracts."

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Source: CME Group


Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

December 6, 2010--Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Monday, December 6, 2010:
Evolving Gold Corp. (TSXV:EVG) will be removed from the index.

The company will graduate to TSX to trade under the same ticker symbol

. Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.

Source: Standard & Poors


CFTC Releases History of “Traders in Financial Futures” COT Data

December 6, 2010--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday, December 3, 2010, made available more than four years of history of “Traders in Financial Futures” data included in the weekly

Commitments of Traders (COT) reports. History for these commodity futures markets is available at www.cftc.gov.

The reports disclose, on a weekly basis, the futures and options positions in financial futures markets held by the following categories of large traders: Dealer/Intermediary, Asset Manager/Institutional, Leveraged Funds and Other Reportables.

“Promoting market transparency is at the core of the CFTC’s mission,” CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler said. “Releasing four years of history for the Traders in Financial Futures will provide regulators, market participants and the public with additional transparency and a historical context for the several months of reports already published.

Source: CFTC.gov


CFTC, SEC Staff to Host Joint Public Roundtable to Discuss Issues Related to Capital and Margin for Swaps and Security-Based Swaps

December 6, 2010-- Staff from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will hold a public roundtable on Friday, December 10, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., to discuss issues related to capital and margin requirements for swap dealers, security-based swap dealers, major swap participants and major security-based swap participants.

dealers, security-based swap dealers, major swap participants and major security-based swap participants. The roundtable will assist the agencies in the rulemaking process to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In addition to CFTC and SEC staff, roundtable participants will include staff from the Federal Reserve Board and other prudential regulators.

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Source: SEC.gov


CFTC Seeks Public Input for a Joint CFTC-SEC Study on the Feasibility of Requiring the Adoption of Standardized Computer-Readable Descriptions of Complex and Standardized Derivatives

December 6, 2010--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved for publication in the Federal Register a request for comment that is expected to assist in the preparation of a study on the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardized computer-readable algorithmic descriptions that may be used to describe complex and standardized derivatives and calculate net exposures.

These algorithmic descriptions are intended to facilitate computerized analysis of individual derivative contracts and to calculate net exposures to complex derivatives.

The study also will consider the extent to which the algorithmic descriptions, together with standardized and extensible legal definitions, may serve as the binding legal definition of derivative contracts.

Section 719(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act establishes an interagency working group comprised of the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct this study.

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Source: CFTC.gov


Morgan Stanley EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS: US ETF WEEKLY UPDATE

December 6, 2010--Weekly Flows: $216 Million Net Inflows
ETFs Traded $346 Billion Last Week
Launches: 7 New ETFs
Two Direxion ETFs Close
US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Flows by Market Segment
For the second straight week, ETFs generated net inflows ($216 million last week)
Net inflows in US Sector & Industry ETFs were offset by net outflows in US equity size segments (Large, Mid, Small, Micro)
ETF assets stand at $969 bln; up 24% YTD

13-week flows were mostly positive among asset classes
$47.8 bln net inflows into ETFs over past 13 weeks (56% into EM & US Large-Cap Equity)
We estimate ETFs have posted net inflows 35 out of 48 weeks YTD

US-Listed ETFs: Estimated Largest Flows by Individual ETF

Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE) posted net inflows of $1.1 bln last week, the most of any ETF

Amid a spike in oil prices, XLE generated large net inflows last week; YTD XLE’s flows have been volatile

For the third straight week, SPY posted net outflows; but over 13-wk period has taken in most new money

US-Listed ETFs: ETF Dollar Volume

Market share of monthly ETF volume as % of listed volume has nearly tripled over 5 yrs

Leveraged/Inverse accounts for 11% weekly ETF volume, but only has 3% of market cap

Fixed Income accounts for only 3% weekly ETF volume, but has 15% of market cap

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Source: ETF Research-Morgan Stanley


Impact investing could reach $1 trillion in 10 years: JP Morgan report

Investing in ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ could yield profits of hundreds of billions while focusing on social and environmental improvement.
December 6, 2010--Impact investing, which prioritises positive social and environmental impact over investment returns, could see new capital inflows ranging from $400bn to nearly $1 trillion in the next ten years as the ‘emerging asset class’ targets segments of the economy typically under-served by traditional business. A report by JP Morgan, the US bank, said impact investing merited the status of new asset class and estimated that it could generate potential profits ranging from $183bn to $667bn over the next ten years by investing in sub-sectors including agriculture, water, housing, education, health, energy and financial services (microfinance), notably in countries where people earn less than $3,000 annually.

This is referred to as the ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ approach (BoP), a phrase popularised in a 2004 book by Indian business professor C.K. Prahalad. The report was prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation, which supports the development of impact investing. JP Morgan looked at expected and realized returns from more than 1,000 investments collected by the Global Impact Investing Network, a lobby group, as the basis for its estimates.

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view report-JP Morgan Impact Investments: An emerging asset class

Source: Responsible Investor


SEC Filings


July 08, 2025 American Century ETF Trust files with the SEC-Avantis Total Equity Markets ETF
July 08, 2025 WisdomTree Trust files with the SEC-WisdomTree Europe Defense Fund
July 08, 2025 Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust files with the SEC-Invesco Global Equity Net Zero ETF
July 08, 2025 Series Portfolios Trust files with the SEC-Myriad Dynamic Asset Allocation ETF
July 08, 2025 Gabelli ETFs Trust files with the SEC-Gabelli High Income ETF

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Europe ETF News


July 02, 2025 Valour Launches Eight New ETPs on Spotlight Stock Market, Including Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Unus Sed Leo (LEO), OKB (OKB), Polygon (POL), Algorand (ALGO), Filecoin (FIL), Arbitrum (ARB), and Stacks (STX)
June 16, 2025 ESMA's activities in 2024 focused on strengthening the EU capital markets and putting citizens and businesses at the heart of it
June 12, 2025 Janus Henderson launches active fixed income ETF
June 12, 2025 ifo Institute Raises Growth Forecast for Germany
June 10, 2025 ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter

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Asia ETF News


July 02, 2025 Fujitsu to develop ETF trading platform based on TSE's CONNEQTOR and provide it to Australian Securities Exchange
June 25, 2025 QFIIs Gain Access to Onshore ETF Options As A-share Market Opening Deepens
June 18, 2025 Mirae Asset Global Investments Launches MIRAE ASSET TIGER CHINA GLOBAL LEADERS TOP3 PLUS ETF, Tracking Solactive-KEDI China Global Leaders TOP3Plus Index
June 13, 2025 Post-Adjustment ChiNext Index Attracts Global Assets with Low Valuation and High Growth Potential
June 13, 2025 Unlocking Consumption to Sustain Growth in China -World Bank Economic Update

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Global ETP News


July 07, 2025 WTO issues new edition of World Tariff Profiles
July 03, 2025 Flow Traders-Tokenization in Capital Markets: A Market Maker's Perspective
June 14, 2025 Global Economic Prospects-Global Economy Faces Trade-Related Headwinds
June 12, 2025 Disclosing Public Debt Boosts Investor Confidence, Cuts Borrowing Costs 
June 10, 2025 Global Economy Set for Weakest Run Since 2008 Outside of Recessions

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Middle East ETP News


June 19, 2025 GCC: Growth on the Rise, but Smart Spending Will Shape a Thriving Future
June 16, 2025 Saudi Exchange leads market losses across the GCC

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Africa ETF News


July 04, 2025 South Africa: African Development Bank Country Focus Report highlights urgent need for economic transformation as GDP growth remains subdued
July 01, 2025 Africa's Trade Projected to Hit $1.5 Trillion in 2025
June 26, 2025 National stock exchange launched in Somalia
June 24, 2025 East Africa's regional 20 share index
June 16, 2025 African Credit Rating Agency to Launch September 2025

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ESG and Of Interest News


June 30, 2025 OECD-Environment at a Glance Indicators
June 18, 2025 Global Energy Transition Gains Ground, but Security and Capital Challenges Persist
June 17, 2025 Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
June 10, 2025 Global Carbon Pricing Mobilizes Over $100 Billion for Public Budgets
June 07, 2025 Accelerating Blue Finance: Instruments, Case Studies, and Pathways to Scale

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White Papers


May 30, 2025 IMF Working Paper-Interest Rate Sensitivity Scenarios to Guide Monetary Policy

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