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  • New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Closes South Canterbury Finance Limited Inquiries

    Date 17/12/2014

    The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has closed its inquiries into potential civil claims relating to South Canterbury Finance Limited (SCF). After careful consideration the FMA has decided not to take any further action.

  • Dalian Commodity Exchange , DGCX Reach Consensus On Deepening Cooperation In Products

    Date 17/12/2014

    During China (Shenzhen) International Derivative Forum, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) and the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) held talks on deepening cooperation in the market, and the two sides reached the consensus on deepening the cooperation in research and development of products when the time is ripe in the future.

  • SIFMA Commends Passage Of Eminent Domain Provision In Spending Bill

    Date 17/12/2014

    Today, SIFMA issued the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., SIFMA president and CEO, after President Obama signed into law a spending bill to keep the government running through FY2015 which contains a provision preventing the federal government from supporting state and local efforts to use eminent domain to acquire mortgages:

     

  • Agencies Announce Rules To Reflect ISDA Protocol In Regulatory Capital And Liquidity Coverage Ratio Rules

    Date 16/12/2014

    The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued an interim final rule to ensure that the treatment of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, eligible margin loans, and repo-style transactions under the two agencies' regulatory capital and liquidity coverage ratio rules would be unaffected by the implementation of certain foreign special resolution regimes for financial companies or by a banking organization's adherence to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's Resolution Stay Protocol. In addition, the interim final rule ensures that the lending limits of affected national banks and Federal savings association would be unchanged.

  • SEC Announces Charges In Alleged Gold Mining Investment Scheme

    Date 16/12/2014

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against two individuals and their companies behind an alleged gold mining investment scheme based in Miami.

  • CFTC Announces Departure Of DSIO Director Gary Barnett

    Date 16/12/2014

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Gary Barnett, Director of the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO), will depart the agency in January to take a senior position at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). CFTC Chairman Tim Massad also announced today that Tom Smith, currently Deputy Director for DSIO’s Capital, Margin and Segregation Branch (CMS Branch), will become Interim Director for DSIO upon Mr. Barnett’s departure.

  • MIAX Regulatory: New Equity Rights Program For 2015

    Date 16/12/2014

    The Exchange filed for immediate effectiveness to implement an equity rights program pursuant to which units representing the right to acquire equity in the Exchange’s parent holding company, Miami International Holdings (“MIH”) would be issued to a participating Member in exchange for payment of an initial purchase price or the prepayment of certain transaction fees and the achievement of certain volume thresholds on the Exchange over a 23 month period.  

  • Federal Court Orders Missouri Resident Daniel K. Steele And His Missouri Company, Champion Management International, LLC, To Pay over $2.5 Million In Monetary Sanctions - Order Also Requires Relief Defendant Judy D. Steele To Disgorge Ill-Gotten Gains

    Date 16/12/2014

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that the Honorable Ronnie L. White of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri entered a Consent Order for permanent injunction against Defendants Daniel K. Steele and Champion Management International, LLC, (Champion Management), a Missouri limited liability company. The Court’s Order requires Defendants jointly to pay $1,544,722.81 in restitution to defrauded investors, imposes a $1 million civil monetary penalty, and requires Relief Defendant Judy D. Steele to disgorge ill-gotten gains totaling $187,083.58. The Order also imposes a permanent trading and registration ban on the Defendants and prohibits them from further violations of the anti-fraud provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), as charged.

  • SEC Announces Charges Against Owner Of Equity Research Firm Accused Of Manipulative Trading

    Date 16/12/2014

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a Phoenix-based equity research firm owner who allegedly manipulated the market for a publicly traded stock he was soliciting investors to purchase.

  • Moscow Exchange: Changes In The Minimum Initial Margin In The Derivatives Market

    Date 16/12/2014

    Minimum initial margin in the Derivatives market for USD/RUB, EUR/RUB Exchange rate, RTS index, MICEX index Russian Federation government bonds futures is increasing: