Connect & Trade: Mexico Monday April 11th 2011

Connect & Trade: Mexico

Accessing Mexican Financial Markets

Join executives from Bolsa Mexicana (Mexican Exchange) for an interactive panel discussion designed to help achieve unparalleled access to one of the leading equity and derivatives marketplaces in Latin America.

Attend this exclusive event to learn about investment opportunities in Mexico, as well as receive insight into new trading rules that streamline Direct Market Access trading (DMA), which benefit traders, institutional investors, hedge funds, high frequency traders, banks, FCMs and brokerages.

Monday, April 11^th 2011

16:00 HRS

Clothworkers’ Company

Clothworkers’ Hall

Dunster Court, Mincing Lane. London, EC3R 7AH

16:00 hrs – Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

                       Livery Hall

18:30 hrs – Cocktail Reception

                       Reception Room

R.S.V.P

Catherine Alexander / +44 20 7490 8062

catherine@rostronparry.com

BMV is the second largest stock exchange in Latin America with a total market capitalization of over US$ 453.8 billion. The Exchange is home to some of the most recognizable and profitable global corporations, including beverage giant Grupo Modelo, whose brands include Corona Extra and Pacifico, América Móvil, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world; CEMEX, the world’s biggest building materials supplier, and Televisa, the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, among many others.

The Mexican Derivatives Exchange is the third largest derivatives exchange in Latin America. Launched in 1998, it offers options and futures on interest rates, stock indices, currencies and single stocks.

29 March 2011: Charlie Anderson at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery

WE GOT CULTURE

The Directors and Staff of RostronParry take great pleasure inviting you to a show by

Charlie Anderson

From 6.00pm, Tuesday 29^th March

Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, 5b Pall Mall (Lower Regent St and Haymarket), London SW1Y 4UY.

Drinks and nibbles.

RSVP

SIMON ROSTRON

ROSTRON PARRY, LONDON

+44 20 7490 8062

simon@rostronparry.com

Financial News: Meet Verena Ross Esma's executive director

Ashlee Godwin

Europe’s newest financial regulator, the European Securities and Markets Authority, is now fit for purpose after a slow start, with the long-awaited appointment of an executive director.

Esma, which was established on January 1 by the European Commission to oversee supervision the region’s securities industry, has named Verena Ross to its most senior position under chairman Steven Maijoor.

Ross is a German national and career-regulator with extensive experience in capital market policy and financial services supervision, following stints at both the UK’s Bank of England and Financial Services Authority. She has also previously appeared in Financial News’s FN100 Women list of the most influential women in European markets.

She joins Esma from the FSA, where she has led its international division since October 2009 and engaged in the debate on reforming the oversight of both European and global financial markets. Ross coordinated the division’s international and European committee work and provided strategic technical advice on EU and policy issues.

The appointment secures a rare senior role for the City of London among Europe’s three new super-regulators.

All three chairman positions in the new bodies have gone to Europeans: Italian Andrea Enria at the European Banking Authority; Maastricht University professor Maijoor at Esma; and Portuguese regulator Gabriel Bernardino at European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.

The EBA is the only one of the three organisations to be based in London.

Ross's appointment follows the EC’s surprise move in January to appoint a little-known Dutch regulator to Esma’s top post. The appointment of Maijoor, a director at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, as chairman was confirmed by the European Parliament earlier this month. As first executive director, Ross will oversee Esma’s initial development and day-to-day management.

Anthony Belchambers, chief executive of the Futures and Options Association, welcomed the appointment: “Whoever holds the position will have to achieve a difficult balance between satisfying public policy objectives to make the market safe while at the same time making sure the markets can meet the demands of investors.

“Verena is a good appointment to do that. She has lots of common sense and a good strong regulatory background.”

Peter Beales, managing director at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, said: “This is a good appointment for ESMA. Verena is a well respected regulator who is expert in capital markets and supervision issues. In addition, her international experience will stand her in good stead as international convergence increasingly dominates the financial regulatory agenda.”

Esma was created to replace the Committee of European Securities Regulator, which advised the EC from 2001 to 2010 on policy issues surrounding the securities industry.

The long-awaited appointment of Ross comes as Esma prepares to begin implementing two sweeping pieces of financial regulation in Europe; the updated Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.