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New York Federal Court Orders New York Financial Advisor Wayne P. Weddington III And His Companies To Pay More Than $1 Million For Commodity Pool Fraud And Unregistered Activity

Date 05/08/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a Consent Order of permanent injunction against Defendants Wayne P. Weddington III of New York, New York and his companies — Brunswick Capital LLC of New Canaan, Connecticut, and Brunswick Capital Partners LP, a Delaware corporation licensed to do business in New York.

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Corporate Fact Sheet July 2015

Date 05/08/2015

Fast Facts 

• Market capitalization (Excluding ETNs):
• Equities:US$238 billion;
• Bonds:US$216 billion

Investor Activity On GPW Markets: July 2015

Date 05/08/2015

• The value of trade on the Electronic Order Book[1] in equities on the Main Market was PLN 17.5 billion in July 2015, an increase of 16.3% year on year
• The volume of trade in index futures was 357.6 thousand contracts, an increase of 24.7% year on year
• The total volume of spot and forward trading in gas stood at 15.9 TWh in July 2015 and more than tripled year on year

CME Group And CFETS Sign Memorandum Of Understanding

Date 05/08/2015

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Shanghai today.

ASX Group Monthly Activity Report – July 2015

Date 05/08/2015

The value of ASX-listed stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, rose 4.2% in July 2015. This performance was stronger than all other major markets, including Germany up 3.3%, the UK up 2.7%, the US up 2.0% and Japan up 1.7%. Hong Kong was down 6.1% and Singapore down 3.5%.

Establishing A Registration Framework For Dealers And Major Participants In The Derivatives Market, SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, Aug. 5, 2015

Date 05/08/2015

The financial crisis of 2008, and the ensuing turmoil, shook the global economy to its core and exposed the weaknesses of our regulatory regime. Years of lax attitudes, deregulation, and complacency allowed an unregulated derivatives marketplace to cause serious damage to the U.S. economy, resulting in significant losses to investors. As a result, Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act tasked the SEC and the CFTC with establishing a regulatory framework for the over-the-counter swaps market. In particular, the SEC was tasked with regulating the security-based swap (SBS) market and the CFTC was given regulatory authority over the much larger swaps market, covering products such as energy and agricultural swaps.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – July 2015

Date 05/08/2015

New listings for the month were amaysim Australia Limited (AYS), Argo Global Listed Infrastructure Limited (ALI), Costa Group Holdings Limited (CGC), Genex Power Limited (GNX), Kina Securities Limited (KSL), Medlab Clinical Limited (MDC), MG Unit Trust (MGC), Mitula Group Limited (MUA), Netccentric Limited (NCL), Pepper Group Limited (PEP), Pureprofile Ltd (PPL), REFFIND Limited (RFN), Series 2015-1 WST Trust (WEJ) and TORRENS Series 2015-1 Trust (TNJ).

ASIC: Proceeds Of Crime Seized Following Account Hacking

Date 05/08/2015

The Supreme Court of New South Wales today ordered more than $77,000 to be restrained following a joint ASIC-Australian Federal Police (AFP) operation into the hacking of online accounts of retail investors.

The CEO Pay Ratio Rule: A Workable Solution For Both Issuers And Investors, SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, Aug. 5, 2015

Date 05/08/2015

Today, the Commission takes another step to fulfill its Congressional mandate to provide better disclosure for investors regarding executive compensation at public companies.  As required by Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act,[1] today’s rules would require a public company to disclose the ratio of the total compensation of its chief executive officer (“CEO”) to the median total compensation received by the rest of its employees.[2]  The hope, quite simply, is that this information will better equip shareholders to promote accountability for the executive compensation practices of the companies that they own.

Quantitative Brokers And InfoReach Partner To Deliver Relative Value Trading For Futures

Date 05/08/2015

Quantitative Brokers (“QB”), a world leading provider of clearer and dealer-neutral agency algorithms for fixed income and futures markets, has partnered with InfoReach, an independent provider of multi-broker, cross-asset, electronic trading technology. InfoReach has integrated QB’s full suite of algorithms, including LEGGER, which supports relative value trading of user-defined, futures versus futures structures. The partnership will allow users of InfoReach’s electronic trading platform to submit and manage outright and inter-commodity futures trades through QB’s best execution algorithms.