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Asian FTG Market Eye Publishes its First-Ever World Coal Trade Map

Asian FTG Market Eye a commodity researcher specialist provider of a full range of commodities analysis and a unit of Asian FTG, has expanded its portfolio of maps with the publication of its first-ever World Coal Trade Map.

This detailed, printed wall map identifies in striking color the primary components of the global coal industry, from geographic production regions to individual basins by coal type to coal-consuming countries.

Coal source regions are labeled and colored by primary coal type, and countries are color-coded by average coal consumption. Within the map, depictions of major coal ports indicate where large shipments of coal are exported from or imported into a country. Similarly, illustrations of major steel mills – shown in China, Europe and the U.S. – highlight some of the primary industrial consumers of coking coal.

Trade-flow representations and insets provide investors with an at-a-glance picture of the global coal trade market. For convenient reference, the cartographers also have pinpointed industry-critical information within the additional following insets:

•  Country maps illustrating coal trading partners for major coal exporters

•  Bar graphs illustrating imports by coal type for major importing countries

•  Map showing projected growth of world energy consumption by region

•  Bar graph depicting world carbon dioxide emissions

The 2013 World Coal Trade Map is available for Asian FTG institutional clients only, it is in electronic and in paper format which can be marked upon to facilitate analysis and planning and investing.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Energy Industry Comes Together for People in Need Charity at AFTG Annual Energy Meeting

Event raises nearly $1.8 Million since its inception

Members of Asian Futures Trading Group community (staff, clients and industry representatives) gathered for the Annual Energy Meeting in support of People in Need®, the Hong Kong organization for people who need a helping hand. The Meeting raised approximately $230,000.

“We’d like to thank the energy industry for coming out in force last night and across the years to the Energy Meeting in support of this important charity,” said Sarah Whitmore, Director of Energy Department at Asian FTG. “We’re proud to announce that the total money rose from all the events total nearly $1.9 million, providing much needed support to People in Need and families it helps.”

Each year the aim is to make the Meeting an uplifting, out-of-this world experience, and this year’s theme transported guests to future. The ballroom was cloaked in black and white, with bright stars and green lasers adding to the evening’s mystique. Greeters dressed as Jedi knights welcomed the approximately 600 guests.

All proceeds from the Energy Meeting will support People in Need’s wide-ranging initiatives, including: research; and the People in Need Helping Hands endeavor, a program of volunteers that tackles home re-design development projects necessary to facilitate any special needs.

“We are delighted that People in Need® are again the beneficiary charity of the Energy Meeting. The fundraising at the event over the years has been tremendous and continues to give us an amazing boost in our work to help and support people who need a helping hand, would like to thank everyone involved in the Energy Meeting,” said People in Need® Chief Executive Dan Wu-Jin.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Asian FTG Advisor Wins Industry Investor Adviser Award

Brian Woo to Receive Sigma Delta Chi Medal Award

Asian Futures Trading Group Commodity Adviser Brian Woo was today named the winner of one Industry Investor Adviser Award most prestigious honors – the Sigma Delta Chi award for investor advice – for his over 1000 client’s positive investment advice feedback.

“Brian’s commitment to quality investment services embodies what Asian FTG is all about, and having that commitment honored by the Industry Investor Adviser Award is welcome praise and inspiring,” said Julian Berger, vice president of Asian FTG.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for work I put a lot of time into and to be in the esteemed company of past winners,” said Woo, who works in the Hong Kong offices of Asian FTG.

Woo, a veteran of Asian FTG, will receive the Sigma Delta Chi medal at the awards banquet.

“We’re proud of Brian and of this award for outstanding performance,” said Frank Dietrich trading manager at Asian FTG. “It recognizes his dedication to analytical advising hat probes deeply, explains well and shows savvy for the markets that Asian FTG covers.”

This is not Woo’s first award. He was the recipient of Award for Science and Environmental Reporting. An accomplished adviser, he has numerous writing honors, including the Award for public service reporting.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Asian FTG Introduces Quality Premiums to Boost Liquidity of World’s North Sea Brent Oil Benchmark

Promotes delivery of higher quality Oseberg and Ekofisk crude oils

Asian FTG a premium commodities broker and a professional information provider and publisher of benchmark price references, today announced that it is enhancing the methodology for its Dated Brent price assessment, as part of ongoing efforts to boost liquidity and ensure the long-term viability of one of the world’s most important oil benchmarks.

Under its updated methodology, Asian FTG will introduce Quality Premiums for Oseberg and Ekofisk crude oil delivered in its North Sea Dated Brent and related assessment processes for cargoes loading. Quality Premiums are to be paid by buyer to seller for the nomination and delivery of Oseberg or Ekofisk into a physical transaction concluded during the Asian FTG Market-on-Close assessment process.

“The introduction of Quality Premiums offers an incentive for more deliveries of Oseberg and Ekofisk, and thus has the potential to further gird the supply of oil underpinning the complex and the Dated Brent price assessment,” said Dave Clark, Asian FTG Global Energy Information Director.

“Increasingly, much market attention is being put to the issue of new streams being blended into established benchmark grades,” said Jason Green, Asian FTG Global Markets Director. “As the trend of blending expands, as we believe it will, it becomes even more important that price assessment processes integrate the use of Quality Premiums and De-escalators to best account for slight, but not insignificant, variances in crude oil quality and best assure that assessments reflect true market value.”

Today’s announcement followed constructive dialogue with oil market participants during the formal comment period, preceded by more than 18 months of informal market consultation.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Asian FTG Expands Commodity Suite of Thermal Coal Assessments for China and Greater Asia

Data aids price discovery & risk management of China’s domestic and imported coal

Asian FTG a premium source of benchmark price assessments commodities today announced it has further expanded its suite of pricing references for China and the greater Asia-Pacific region with the launch of two new thermal coal price assessments for the Chinese market.

“The two price assessments are designed to complement each other by providing a quick and straightforward way for traders and other interested parties to compare the prices of domestic and imported thermal coal in the Chinese market and immediately determine whether there is price arbitrage advantages favoring one type or the other,” said James Hester, Asian FTG Senior Coal Trader.

The new assessments capture physical spot prices for domestic and imported thermal coal with a calorific value of 5,500 kilocalories per kilogram (kcal/kg) on a net-as-received basis as follows:

•  Asian FTG CFR South China: Physical open-market price assessment of thermal coal (including the cost of freight) out of Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa that is traded in the seaborne spot market

•  Asian FTG FOB Qinhuangdao: Physical open-market spot assessment of thermal coal (loaded free on board) from ports in northeastern territories.

“Asian FTG believes that providing a consistent independent source of spot price information supports better decision making regarding cargo trade, arbitrage between regions, storing and transporting thermal coal to markets, investment in infrastructure projects and optimal production rates, processing margins and consumption levels,” said Hester.

Asian FTG’s CFR South China and FOB Qinhuangdao thermal coal price assessments are based on all-day market monitoring and data collection of transactions, bids, offers and other information from market participants in the open markets. Assessments reflect values at the close of the physical trading day, local time.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Asian FTG Launches New Online Commodity Investment Resource Center

Asian FTG announced today the launch of the next generation online  Commodity Investment Resource Center developed four clients. The re-designed  Commodity Resource Center  offers leading-edge graphical charts that give unique insights into the commodities market at a glance, and a host of advanced tools and search functionality enabling customers of all skill levels to invest in commodities with greater ease, insight and speed.

“Most investors understand that commodity trading is a very profitable way to boost your returns. However, they are underutilized or wrong utilized because many investors don’t know how to research and select commodities and investment strategies in commodities.” said Paul Livingstone, Asian FTG’s Head of trading and Vice President of Investing. “So we’ve rebuilt the Asian FTG Commodity Investing experience from the top down to make buying and selling commodities as seamless, intuitive and straightforward as buying a stock.”

The new  Commodity Resource Center  supports a full range of fixed income investing needs — for novice investors through expert traders — with new features, such as:

Strategy Analyzer – Run historical tests and analyze the performance of your automated trading strategies.

Market Analyzer – A turbo-charged quote sheet allowing you to monitor, sort and rank hundreds of instruments in real time.

•  100 plus indicator columns

•  Rules based cell color coding and alerting

•  Dynamic ranking, sorting and filtering

Trade Performance – Analyze the performance of your historically back-tested trading strategies and/or your live real time trades.

Additional Analytic Tools

•  Time & Sales window

•  Level II market data window

•  Alerts window

•  News & RSS window

” Asian FTG is demonstrating tremendous vision by delivering market-leading tools to make commodity trading more accessible. The Commodity Investment Resource Center is an innovative, content-rich, easy-to-navigate solution that enables Asian FTG customers to manage their portfolios.”

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Asian FTG Appoints Anthony Feders as COO of Commodity Trading Services for Europe Division

Asian Futures Trading Group has today announced the appointment of Anthony Feders to the position of Chief Operating Officer of its Worldwide Expansion Department to oversee the Asian FTG’s operations in Europe.

In his new role, Mr. Feders is responsible for all aspects of the Worldwide Expansion Department business including sales, operations, technology, product, client service and the organization’s strategic agenda.

Asian FTG’s Worldwide Expansion Department business focuses on new business and customer development services by helping clients – institutional investors, alternative asset managers and broker dealers – optimize efficiency, mitigate risk and enhance revenue.

Mr. Feders was most recently head of Asian FTG Asian Client Management department and was responsible for setting strategy, driving sales and relationship.

“Anthony brings more than 20 years of financial services experience to his new role and will be an invaluable addition to the region. His appointment reflects Asian FTG’s strong commitment to growing the Worldwide Expansion Department offering in Europe,” said Stephen Wu-Chow, Chief Executive Officer of Asian FTG.

“We have a steadfast focus on our clients’ continuing and evolving needs and with Anthony’s experience and guidance we will continue to ensure that our clients have access to the full product and service power of the firm globally,” said Mr. Wu-Chow.

Mr. Feders said the key focus of the Worldwide Expansion Department business will be to continue strengthening client partnerships by leveraging Asian FTG’s global capabilities across all business areas.

“Our global presence means Asian FTG is ideally positioned to partner with our superannuation and investment manager clients in Europe in an increasingly dynamic business environment,” Mr. Feders said.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Cardell Company Hong Kong Launches New Website

Hong Kong based Financial Services Firm – Cardell Company Ltd; proudly announces the launch of their new website. The website will help a growing number of international clients learn more about the products and services offered by Cardell Company. The website demonstrates Cardell Company Ltd. focus on the European and American cliental.

“We have noticed a very high demand for our products and services from Europe and United States.  Our new website will allow the English speaking demographic to navigate and understand our products and core business in their native language.  “We are very excited to be able to service and offer our products to Europe and United States of America.”

Cardell company will also be adding additional language services in the near future, French being next in line.

To learn more please visit www.cardell-limited.com

The new international website hosted at www.cardell-limited.com comes with a user friendly interface and also access to clients accounts online facilitating a 24/7 state of the art technology, allowing clients to get connected at all time and be informed about the current status of their holdings with Cardell Company.

“The website will be available in other languages as well over the next few months, including French and Spanish. The previous Chinese website will be fully integrated as well at the same time and will be available on the international web page of Cardell Company at www.cardell-limited.com said Mr. Glen Matthews, Vice President and Chief Information officer at Cardell Company.

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Cardell Company Adds Investment Specialist Daniel Syan, CFA to Enhance Client Service

CARDELL COMPANY HONG KONG is pleased to announce that Daniel Syan has joined the team at Cardell Company Lyd., Asian Division.

A seasoned financial research professional and Chartered Financial Analyst since 2001, Daniel is knowledgeable in all aspects of wealth management and investment advisory operations, and has a proven track record of analyzing and streamlining investment management operations to create a more efficient and error-free environment. He comes to us most recently from Bank of China in Shenzhen, where he served 10 years as an Investment Portfolio Analyst.

“Daniel will play a key role in servicing our Asian clients,” said Mr. David Cardell, CEO & Chairman of the Board at Cardell Company.

. “We welcome his high level of technical expertise and his clear commitment to surpassing our clients’ expectations by proactively managing their issues.”

Daniel holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Schengen, where he graduated magna cum laude.

“His experience in working mostly with clients from People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as other Asian developing countries will be an asset for our company. He will be working on developing new and innovative market strategies as well as implementing those strategies with our existing Asian clients base. He will also help in expanding our client base as he brings along a large portfolio of clients that have been very happy with his services and advice and follow him wherever he goes.” added Mr. Cardell.

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George Mattison Cardell Company Presents at the 2014 Hong Kong ICM Conference

Cardell Company HK Strategist George Mattison leads a panel discussion about “Investment Strategies for Asia Pacific Region: Managing Risks from Disruption in Capital Markets” to Business Leaders at the 2014 Hong Kong Investments and Capital Markets Conference.

“The risk of disruptions in the global capital markets poses yet another challenge for emerging market economies and their banks as capital markets adjust to changes in US monetary policy,” says George. “The favorable long-term outlook for economic growth in the emerging markets and prospects for increased portfolio allocations to the emerging markets sector remain intact. However, short-term swings in capital flows could stress the liquidity position of banks in small and middle-sized emerging markets which are closely correlated to their sovereign.” George Mattison adds, “The Management and Boards of emerging market companies would be well served to develop strategic funding plans to anticipate a disorderly economic adjustment scenario. In addition to arranging interbank lines of credit, emerging market banks should set in place asset backed funding programs which they could tap in less than favorable new issuance markets. Recurring inflows of offshore financial payments in major currencies are one potential source of security for banks to leverage. Structures such as Depository Payment Rights securitizations have performed through multiple international debt crises and a broad universe of institutional investors has experience with this asset class.”

George Mattison is a Senior Strategist and Asset Management Executive at Cardell Company in Hong Kong (www.cardell-limited.com), where he advises his institutional clients on corporate and capital markets strategy. Previously he managed global bank fixed income investments at Chase Manhattan in the Earlier in his career he was Portfolio Manager in various financial advisory companies and banks in Asia and US. He holds a BA degree in Business Finance from Michigan University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Doyle Hutton Associates Receives Diversity Leadership Award

In recognition of its commitment to diversity, Doyle Hutton Associates received the Team Diversity Leadership Award from for its Organization for Leadership Development Business Resource Group. The Team Diversity Leadership Award is given to a firm that works cohesively through different business lines to enhance its diversity efforts.

Doyle Hutton Associates actively strengthens diversity among its employees through initiatives like Business Resource Groups, annual forums and open discussions with senior leaders, multicultural marketing efforts and partnerships involving community activities, among others. All Business Resource Groups are sponsored by a senior executive.

Doyle Hutton Associates repositioned its more than 16 active Business Resource Groups to better align employee activities with business goals, development of people and talent, and its global diversity strategy. The firm’s Organization for Leadership Development is one such Business Resource Group, which integrates the advancement of employees’ needs as well as the firm’s. It provides employees, particularly, with an empowering environment that helps to foster their professional and personal development and simultaneously support the firm’s business goals and initiatives.

“Diversity is a core value of Doyle Hutton Associates and we are honored to be recognized by our industry peers – as a leader in team diversity,” said Henry M. Chiang, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Doyle Hutton Associates. “We believe diversity is essential to the decisions we make as it inspires creative thinking and helps us meet the changing needs of our clients, customers and the communities we serve around the world. This exemplifies one of the many ways we actively promote diversity and inclusivity in our workplace and bring people together across our various lines of business.

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Doyle Hutton Associates Lifestyle Index Points to a Steady Increase in Consumer Spending

Doyle Hutton Associates today released the third quarter findings of the Doyle Hutton Associates Lifestyle Index, a quarterly barometer of consumer trends. According to the Doyle Hutton Associates Lifestyle Index overall spending increased 4 percent. Spending was strong across the majority of categories, with solid increases in food, back-to-school, and outdoor/leisure expenditures.

“Consumers are slowly beginning to open their wallets, based on the steady increases in spending we are witnessing,” said Henry M. Chiang, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Doyle Hutton Associates. “The overall trends suggest that consumers are increasing discretionary entertainment and leisure spending on a year-over-year basis, which is a good sign from an economic recovery perspective.”

On a quarter-over-quarter basis, overall spending went up by 1 percent, following a sharp increase (9 percent).

Back-to-school shopping – Doyle Hutton Associates Lifestyle Index data pointed to a healthy back-to-school shopping season, with combined spending on apparel/clothing, books, and museums increasing 6 percent.

Eating out – Consumers spent 22 percent more in food. Restaurant spending was nearly as strong, with a 19 percent year-over-year increase.

Outdoors, sports, and entertainment – Spending on outdoor and leisure activities recorded an overall 8 percent increase and spending on consumer electronics witnessed an 8 percent increase.

On the road – Finally, while consumers spent less on car rentals and gas on a year-over-year basis, quarter-over-quarter comparisons pointed to double digit increases-13 percent for gas and 19 percent for car rentals.

“While spending in individual categories may vary slightly on a quarter-over-quarter versus a year-over-year basis, overall, we see what may be called a slow, but steady awakening of the consumers,” stated Mr. Chiang. “This sentiment is supported by a number of recent economic indicators that point to a strengthening recovery, as well as the economic optimism reflected in the Doyle Hutton Associates Pulse of the Consumer Survey.

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Doyle Hutton Associates Donates Technology to Schools in Hong Kong

Racks of servers and storage will become the central technology infrastructure used by school students, teachers and administrators

Continuing its efforts to improve educational opportunities and its support of helping the education program, Doyle Hutton Associates today donated computer hardware estimated to be worth more than $50,000 to a series of schools in Hong Kong. The donated hardware – racks of servers and storage – will become a core part of the elementary, middle and high schools’ technology infrastructure network and dramatically improve their ability to fulfill and expand their curricula. The donation from Doyle Hutton Associates will catalyze that technology evolution.

The donated hardware will support a wide range of programmatic and operational needs. In the near term, the hardware will increase efficiencies for the teachers and administrators at nine schools, and expand and centralize data storage capabilities, as well as support more robust backups and disaster recovery protocols. Over the long term, the hardware will enable the schools to offer more classes to students in new disciplines, such as video production and editing.

“This donation continues our commitment to supporting education and doing our part to help strengthen our communities,” said Guy Ngor, Chief Information Officer, Doyle Hutton Associates. “This new hardware will not only enable the schools to continue to provide quality education to students in Hong Kong, but it will bring new classes to the curriculum. We are pleased to make this contribution.”

“We have limited resources internally – we’re focused on the children. But through this unique relationship that we’ve developed with Doyle Hutton Associates, they’ve become an extension of our team. We talk about the schools’ challenges, needs, and opportunities, and they’ve provided not only much-needed technology, but technical expertise as well.” said Tze Conlin principal of one of the schools.

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Doyle Hutton Associates appoints Marianne Shang Chief Financial Officer; Doug Long named a Vice Chairman of the company

Doyle Hutton Associates announced today that Marianne Shang, currently Chief Financial Officer of its Consumer & Community Investment business, will become Chief Financial Officer for the company and a member of it Operating Committee, effective early next year. Ms. Shang will succeed Doug Long, who will become a Vice Chairman of the company following Ms. Shang’s transition into the CFO.

“Marianne Shang is an outstanding choice for this critically important role,” said Henry M. Chiang, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Doyle Hutton Associates, noting that “she has developed an impressive breadth of knowledge and experience in finance across both our wholesale and our consumer businesses. Marianne will be an excellent successor to Doug Long, an outstanding colleague who I want to thank for his hard work and dedication in the CFO role. Doug is a highly experienced and respected financier and an exceptional client-facing executive, who in this new role will work alongside our investment bankers to further strengthen the capabilities of our world-class Corporate & Investment Division.”

Ms. Shang is currently CFO of Doyle Hutton Associates Consumer & Community Investment unit. Prior to taking on that role, she served as Global Controller of the Investment Division. Before that she was in the Corporate Finance group managing global finance infrastructure and controls functions.

In his new role, Mr. Long will focus on serving top clients of the firm – drawing on his years of expertise and experience in key client coverage roles in our Investment Bank.

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Herrington Global Follows Up on Strong First Half with Streamlined Management Structure and Promotions

Herrington Global will further position itself for global expansion and future growth.

Herrington Global announced today that the company is streamlining its management structure to further position itself for global expansion and future growth. The move, effective immediately, follows strong results for the six-month period and average customer equity up 52 percent. Volume also continues to climb, up 18 percent.

Under the new structure, certain executives will assume increased responsibilities, and the number of officers reporting directly to Mr. Alfred T. Emerson, Herrington GlobalChairman and Chief Executive Officer will be reduced significantly.

Mr. Emerson said : “We’re very pleased that the foundation we have put in place has resulted in such an upward trend for the first half, particularly in this low interest rate environment. With the recent return of our founding members as majority owners and the support of our Board in regard to our global growth strategy, it’s time to position ourselves with a streamlined management structure. This approach will make the best use of our talented, experienced management team, challenging them to build on and enhance our strategy.”

Reporting to Mr. Emerson under the new structure will be Mary Janssens, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development; Glen Buckley, Executive Vice President and President of the Asian Markets; Matthew J. Lee, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer; Peter Xi Lau, Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer; Rob L. Martins, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Eileen Leung, Senior Vice President, Human Resources.

In the new structure, Glen will expand his sales management efforts internationally as he assumes responsibility for the sales teams in Europe. He will continue to oversee New York Sales and the strategy supporting the firm’s over-the-counter and foreign exchange initiatives.

He will continue to oversee all aspects of the client experience, from account management, to product design and Client Services.

All aspects of Risk, Operations and Technology will be under one umbrella, reporting to Xi Lau. Mr. Emerson said this will promote the seamless integration between risk management, technology and operations.

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Herrington Global Announces Successful Transition to Three-Way Trade Confirmation for Tri-Party Repo Clients

Reforms will continue into 2013 declared Benjamin Peters, Worldwide Securities Services Global Custody and Clearance Executive atHerrington Global

Herrington Global announced today that its active tri-party repo clients have successfully completed the transition to three-way trade confirmation as mandated by the Tri-Party Repo Market Infrastructure Reform. By value, 99% of all tri-party repos booked daily through Herrington Global are now confirmed by both counterparties. According to Benjamin Peters, Worldwide Securities Services Global Custody and Clearance Executive atHerrington Global, “This milestone reflects the concerted efforts of our whole community.Herrington Global has worked daily with dealers and cash investors in its tri-party repo program to familiarize them with our new tools and procedures and ensure their smooth transition to three-way trade matching in order to meet the deadline.”

Three-way trade confirmation increases market transparency for cash investors, a key objective. Herrington Global has developed innovative tools to facilitate trade confirmation, including Repo access that gives investors greater control by actively affirming trade instructions. Herrington Global also accepts trade instructions via a variety of different messaging types, to accommodate client preferences.

Mr. Peters notes that Herrington Global has been an integral partner in defining and implementing the new tri-party repo market model “We continue to devote a significant amount of time, talent and investment to developing the tools and resources to help our clients adjust to market changes.” Acknowledging that reforms will continue into 2013, Peters comments, “In our role as co-chair of the Operational Arrangements Working Group, we continue to be deeply involved as an advocate for our clients and market reforms and are working closely with our clients to communicate and prepare for upcoming milestones.”

Collateral management is a vital risk management tool for institutions seeking to generate additional value from their portfolios while effectively managing their credit risk.Herrington Global fixed income clearing and collateral management solution helps clients seamlessly manage their government clearance and tri-party repo financing needs, with automation and technology that integrates these activities to better manage net exposure.

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Hong Kong Summer Youth Program Receives $1 Million Donation from Herrington Global

Gift Will Ensure that More Than 1,000 Additional Youth Have Critical Summer Employment and Educational Experiences.

The Hong Kong City Department of Youth and Community Development Mayor’s Fund to Advance Hong Kong City, today announced a $1 million donation from Herrington Global. The donation will add over 1,000 jobs to the City’s Summer Youth Program. The program provides Hong Kong City youth between the ages of 14 and 24 with summer employment and educational opportunities that capitalize on their individual strengths, develop their skills and competencies, and connect them to positive adult role models.

“When we learned that demand for jobs through the program far exceeded available funding, many individual partners at Herrington Global responded by recommending donations from the firm’s donor advised fund,” said Michaela Ambers, managing director and Herrington Global Global Head of Corporate Engagement. “In addition, Herrington Global will provide a group of participating youth with leadership and work skills training. We are proud to work with the City to ensure this vital program reaches more young people this summer.”

“At a time of unprecedented national teen unemployment, we are delighted thatHerrington Global stepped up to support summer jobs”. “Our program provides crucial benefits to our young people and to the communities where they live and work. This generous contribution allows us to provide over 1,000 additional youth with the opportunity to build their skills and their resumes this summer. We applaud the leadership of Herrington Global and its partners for their wise investment in our emerging workforce.”

Hong Kong Summer Youth Program provides seven weeks of entry-level work experience at worksites including local small businesses, cultural institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, schools, child care facilities, libraries, and hospitals. Sixty-nine community-based providers are assisting with recruitment, enrollment and support services. Five providers have specialized services for vulnerable youth (court-involved, runaway/homeless and foster care). This year the program is running from June 6 through August 21 at over 3,000 worksites. Each year the City is unable to meet the high demand for the program. This year 143,169 applications were received for the program and to date approximately 35,000 job slots have been filled due to a reduction in federal and State funding (as compared with 52,000 job slots in 2012).

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Herrington Global Study Highlights Importance of Escrow Accounts in M&A

Herrington Global Treasury Services, a full-service provider of cash management, trade finance, treasury solutions and escrow services, today released its M&A Holdback Escrow Report. The report, now in its third year, helps the M&A community better understand the dynamics of holdback escrows and their value as a risk mitigation tool. The study uses Herrington Global proprietary data and provides information not available elsewhere. Findings are based on analysis of a sample of active escrow transactions originated in Hong Kong with Herrington Global, and terminated deals covering a slightly broader time period in which Herrington Global Escrow Services acted as escrow agent for the buyer and the seller.

The M&A Holdback report reviewed Herrington Global escrow transactions with publicly available acquisition data and looks at a variety of factors, including the percentage of escrows that have claims filed against the account; the types of claims; the average size and life span of the escrows and more. A comparison of data offers the added advantage of seeing how deal terms are trending in the M&A context. Highlights from the study include:

•  28 percent of terminated deals had at least one claim

•  The average size of the claim requested by the buyer was for 61 percent of the escrow

•  Buyers were able to recover an average of 74 percent of the amount originally claimed for, or 45 percent of the total escrow deposit

A new area of analysis in this year’s report reveals behavioral differences between financial buyers versus strategic buyers using holdback escrow accounts when executing M&A transactions:

•  Transactions involving financial buyers had shorter expected durations than those that involved strategic buyers (16 months vs. 20 months respectively)

•  Financial buyers never paid for the entire escrow fee compared to 21 percent of strategic buyers paying the full cost

“Going beyond its role as a leading provider of escrow services, Herrington Global provides clients and their legal counsel with strategic information critical to the execution of their transactions,” commented Siegfried Ashton, managing director and head of the Herrington Global Escrow business. “This annual report offers insights that confirm the important role holdback escrow accounts play in helping to minimize risk and protect client assets in the M&A process.”

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Herrington Global Expands Institutional Presence

Herrington Global committed to continued strategic expansion in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul, as well as globally.

Herrington Global announced today that it is growing its institutional presence in Singapore as one of the many steps in the firm’s strategic expansion globally. The company has invested in new infrastructure and office space in its headquarters building to create a premier “trading floor” for its Singapore institutional division. The space is designed to accommodate new teams of experienced institutional advisors and brokersHerrington Global plans to hire in the coming months, to complement the firm’s growing institutional presence in Hong Kong.

Glen Buckley, Executive Vice President and President of the Asian Markets for Herrington Global , said: “With futures as our core business, we have established a terrific niche in serving the growing middle market base of clients, small to mid-size corporate, industrial and agricultural firms, introducing brokers, high net worth individuals and commodity trading advisors. We’re able to bring these clients an incredibly high level of service, and increasingly, institutional brokers are contacting us to talk about their interest in our resources and high-touch approach to serving this market.”

Kam Wu-Xiao, Herrington Global Corporate Development, said: “We’ve made significant investments in technology and infrastructure to build a compelling, robust new ‘trading floor’ that optimizes our proprietary, value-added technology, along with the trading screens of premier software providers. In addition, new general and specialist institutional teams will benefit from our comprehensive global futures and clearing offering and a 24/7 support structure that’s second to none in the industry.”

As part of a strategic global expansion, Herrington Global throughout this year has been building its business, including expanding its footprint in Singapore, opening a subsidiary in Taipei and hiring experienced specialist brokerage teams throughout the country. Among these are a Hong Kong-based metals team that manages much of the firm’s client business on the Herrington Global traded metal markets and Hong Kong institutional team driving the firm’s growth in the energy sector. Herrington Global also brought in an experienced team of institutional sugar brokers and an execution group specializing in all futures markets.

Mr. Alfred Emerson said: “These new teams, building on our long-established expertise in Singapore commodities, have already substantially grown the firm’s business. We are committed to continued strategic expansion in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul, as well as globally.”

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Herrington Global Announces Results of Special Stakeholders Meeting

Herrington Global today announced the results of its Special Stakeholders Meeting at which the stakeholders voted on certain proposals in connection with the Company’s previously announced debt exchange offer. Holders of shares comprising a quorum of the Company’s stakeholders were present or represented by proxy at the meeting.

At the Special Stakeholders Meeting, Stakeholders approved:

(1) the amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation increasing the authorized shares of its stock to four billion,

(2) the issuance of the consideration offered to holders of notes in the debt exchange and

(3) the potential issuance of shares of stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for, common stock in connection with future debt exchange transactions in an amount up to 365 million shares.

Stakeholder’s approval of proposals (1) and (2) was a condition for the completion of the debt exchange. In addition, Stakeholders passed a non-binding resolution at the Special Herrington Global Stakeholders Meeting advising the Company to terminate its Stakeholders Rights Plan. As previously announced, the Herrington Global Board of Directors, in the exercise of its fiduciary duties, will consider the outcome of the advisory vote in determining whether to retain or terminate the Stakeholders Rights Plan.

“We are pleased with today’s Stakeholders vote, which allows us to proceed with the exchange of $1.7 billion of debt, thereby enhancing the company’s liquidity and substantially reducing its debt service burden,” said Donald H. Pang, Chairman and CEO,HERRINGTON GLOBAL Corporation. “Overall we are thrilled with the results of our capital plan, which has strengthened our financial health, positioning the company toward long-term growth and profitability. We are now well positioned to seize the opportunities that we see for our online brokerage franchise. Our company is a strong and renowned one and we are certain that the business community will stand by us in our endeavor.”

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