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  • Statement Regarding Proposed Amendments And A Re-Proposed Rule Regarding Application Of Certain Title VII Requirements To Security-Based Swap Transactions, SEC Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher, April 29, 2015

    Date 29/04/2015

    Thank you, Chair White.

    When the Commission first proposed rules relating to the application of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act to cross-border activity in 2013, I supported the proposal.  However, at that time, I expressed some reservations because, while I thought we were generally moving in the right direction, I was not convinced that we had gotten it exactly right.

  • Dissenting Statement At An Open Meeting Proposing Mandated Pay Versus Performance Disclosures, SEC Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher, April 29, 2015

    Date 29/04/2015

    Thank you, Chair White. And thank you to the staff from the Division of Corporation Finance who worked diligently on today’s proposing release, in particular Keith Higgins, Felicia Kung, and Eduardo Aleman. Thanks as well to staff from the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and from the Office of the General Counsel.

  • Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement

    Date 29/04/2015

    Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March suggests that economic growth slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting transitory factors. The pace of job gains moderated, and the unemployment rate remained steady. A range of labor market indicators suggests that underutilization of labor resources was little changed. Growth in household spending declined; households' real incomes rose strongly, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices, and consumer sentiment remains high. Business fixed investment softened, the recovery in the housing sector remained slow, and exports declined. Inflation continued to run below the Committee's longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and decreasing prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.

  • EBA: Consultation Paper On Revised Template For The Identification Of G-SIIs (EBA/CP/2015/07)

    Date 29/04/2015

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation to update its data template for the identification of global systemically relevant institutions (G-SIIs). The need for this revision was prompted by the new data template and some minor revisions introduced by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in January 2015 for the identification of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The consultation runs until 20 May 2015.

  • Qatar Central Securities Depository Increases Foreign Ownership Percentage Of Aamal To 49%

    Date 29/04/2015

    Qatar Central Securities Depository (QCSD) announced that it had amended the foreign ownership percentage in the shares of the Aamal Company to become 49% of the company''''s capital, as of the trading session of Thursday, April 30, 2015.

  • Gulf Petrochem To Launch First Indian Focused Real Estate Fund Under DIFC's Exempt Fund Regime

    Date 29/04/2015

    • GP commits US$10 million as seed capital to Fund; aims to raise US$100 million
    • DIFC's Exempt Fund tailored to provide professional and institutional investors with unique and tax efficient access to diversified portfolio of professionally managed 'Grade A' real estate assets in compliance with the Indian Government's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) programme

  • EBA Consults On A Revised Data Template For The Identification Of G-SIIS

    Date 29/04/2015

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation to update its data template for the identification of global systemically relevant institutions (G-SIIs). The need for this revision was prompted by the new data template and some minor revisions introduced by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in January 2015 for the identification of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The consultation runs until 20 May 2015.
     

  • SEC Charges Santa Barbara-Based Hedge Fund Firm, Executives, And Auditor For Improper Expense Allocations

    Date 29/04/2015

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based hedge fund advisory firm and two executives involved in improper allocations of fund assets to pay undisclosed operating expenses.  The SEC also charged an accountant who conducted the outside audit of misleading financial statements that the firm sent to investors.

  • EBA Acknowledges Notification From The Bank Of Greece

    Date 29/04/2015

    The EBA acknowledges notification from the Bank of Greece with respect to its decision on Resolution of Panellinia Bank S.A. 

  • Improving Transparency For Executive Pay Practices, SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, April 29, 2015

    Date 29/04/2015

    Today, as part of a series of Congressionally-mandated rules to promote corporate accountability, we consider proposed rules to put a spotlight on the relationship between executive compensation and a company’s financial performance. It is well known that the compensation of corporate executives has grown exponentially over the last several decades, and continues to do so today. It is also commonly accepted that much of that growth reflects the trend towards equity-based and other incentive compensation, which is thought to align the interests of corporate management with the company’s shareholders. Specifically, the idea is that stock options, restricted stock, and other incentive-based compensation encourages management to work hard to improve their company’s performance, because managers will share in the wealth along with shareholders when stock prices rise.