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CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 02/12/2015

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.

BATS ETF Marketplace Welcomes MomentumShares ETF - MomentumShares U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF Began Trading Today

Date 02/12/2015

BATS Global Markets (BATS), the #1 U.S. market for the trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today welcomed the MomentumShares U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (BATS: QMOM), which began trading today on BATS Exchange.

CFTC Orders Arya Motazedi To Pay A Civil Monetary Penalty And Restitution And Bans Him From Trading And Registration For Engaging In Gas And Crude Oil Futures Transactions That Defrauded His Employer - Motazedi Misappropriated His Employer’s Confidential, Non Public, And Material Trading Information

Date 02/12/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Arya Motazedi of Miami, Florida, for engaging in fraudulent transactions in the New York Mercantile Exchange’s (NYMEX) RBOB Gasoline Physical futures contract and CL Light Sweet Crude Oil futures contract involving two personal accounts he owned or controlled and a company account he traded for his former employer.

Vienna Stock Exchange: ATX & ATX Prime: New Free Float Factors For BUWOG And DO&CO

Date 02/12/2015

The Vienna Stock Exchange set new free float factors in the context of the quarterly review of the calculation factors of the Austrian stock indices ATX and ATX Prime this evening. For the real estate company BUWOG and for the catering company DO&CO the free float factors increase from 0.6 to 0.7 respectively due to the notifications on the sale of shareholdings. The free float factor represents the portion of a company’s shares that are in the hands of a multitude of public investors and tradable on the stock exchange. A higher free float indicates a better tradability of a share on the stock exchange and results in a higher weighting of the company in the index. The changes will become effective on 22 December 2015.

FTSE UK Index Series Quarterly Review December 2015

Date 02/12/2015

• DCC, Provident Financial and Worldpay Group to join FTSE 100
• G4S, Meggitt and Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets to enter FTSE 250 in rebalance

Poulaillon Lists On Alternext

Date 02/12/2015

EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), today announced the listing of Poulaillon, a family-owned bakery, catering and snack business, onAlternext in Paris.

ESMA Published Updated Q&A On AIFMD

Date 02/12/2015

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published updated questions and answers on the application of the AIFMD.

Board Of Governors Of The Federal Reserve System: Speech By Chair Janet L. Yellen On The Economic Outlook And Monetary Policy At The Economic Club Of Washington, Washington, D.C.

Date 02/12/2015

Thank you to the Economic Club of Washington for inviting me to speak to you today. I would like to offer my assessment of the U.S. economy, nearly six and half years after the beginning of the current economic expansion, and my view of the economic outlook. I will describe the progress the economy has made toward the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) goals of maximum employment and stable prices and what the current situation and the outlook imply for how monetary policy is likely to evolve to best foster the attainment of those objectives.

SEC: Grant Thornton Ignored Red Flags In Audits

Date 02/12/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that national audit firm Grant Thornton LLP and two of its partners agreed to settle charges that they ignored red flags and fraud risks while conducting deficient audits of two publicly traded companies that wound up facing SEC enforcement actions for improper accounting and other violations.

EBRD Holds Climate Technology Transfer Event At COP21 In Paris

Date 02/12/2015

At the Paris COP21 climate talks this morning, the EBRD held a half-day side event on climate technology transfer issues.

Led by Josué Tanaka, the EBRD Managing Director for Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, the session opened with an inspirational address from José María Figueres, Chairman of Rocky Mountain Institute/Carbon War Room and ex-President of Costa Rica. Mr Figueres stressed the environmental urgency of climate change in a difficult global context characterised by weakness in economic development, political tensions and the decline of multilateralism. He called for the establishment of a Climate Change Marshall plan to trigger an acceleration in the rate of climate technology deployment. The world took a similar approach to address the financial crisis in 2008.