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Michael Gooch Issues Open Letter To GFI Group Stockholders - Letter Highlights CME Transaction's Increased Merger Consideration Of $5.85 Per Share - GFI Board Of Directors Recommends The CME Transaction - CME Transaction On Track To Close - Stockholder Meeting Set For January 30th - GFI Stockholders Unlikely To Receive Full Cash Value Of BGC's Tender Offer Given Its Substantial Conditionality - GFI Stockholders Can Have A Bird In The Hand - Or Wait For A BGC In The Bush - Management Group Is Selling Its Shares To CME For $4.4380 Per Share; A Single Disinterested, Non-Continuing, Affiliated JPI Insider Is Selling Her Substantial GFI Stake For $5.4571 A Share - ALL Other GFI Shareholders Will Receive $5.85 Per Share

Date 27/01/2015

Michael Gooch, in his capacity as controlling stockholder of Jersey Partners Inc. ("JPI"), a 36%+ stockholder of GFI Group Inc. ("GFI") (NYSE: GFIG), today issued an open letter to GFI shareholders in support of the higher, amended offer from CME Group (Nasdaq: CME) to acquire all outstanding shares of GFI for $5.85 per share.  Mr. Gooch is also Executive Chairman of GFI.

OCC: Michael Brickman Named Deputy Comptroller For Special Supervision

Date 27/01/2015

As Deputy Comptroller of Special Supervision, Mr. Brickman will oversee the supervision of the OCC's most critical problem midsize and community banks as well as the development and implementation of rehabilitation or resolution strategies for assigned banks and savings associations, including the orderly management of closings, when necessary. His group also supervises the OCC Headquarters-based fraud specialists and their activities.

CFTC Announces Membership Of The Energy And Environmental Markets Advisory Committee

Date 27/01/2015

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo, sponsor of the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC), announced today the members and associate members of the EEMAC.

Top Institutional Derivatives And Volatility Traders To Gather In California For 31st Annual CBOE RMC

Date 26/01/2015

In advance of Winter Storm Juno, SIFMA recommends fixed-income markets remain open. SIFMA’s Emergency Command Center remains in close coordination with our member firms, exchanges, industry utilities, regulators and public sector emergency managers. Please stay tuned towww.sifma.org and @SIFMA for updates. 

CBOE Risk Management Conference March 4 – 6, 2015 - Top Institutional Derivatives And Volatility Traders To Gather In California For 31st Annual CBOE RMC

Date 26/01/2015

The Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) and CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE®) will host the 31st annual CBOE Risk Management Conference (RMC), from Wednesday, March 4 through Friday, March 6, 2015, at the Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad, California.

Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montréal Exchange, TMX Select And Alpha Closed For Family Day

Date 26/01/2015

Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Alpha and Montréal Exchange, will be closed on Monday, February 16, 2015 for Family Day.

OCC Bulletin: Changes To The Regulatory Capital And Liquidity Rules: Interim Final Rule

Date 26/01/2015

Summary

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (collectively, the agencies) are amending certain provisions of the agencies’ capital and liquidity rules to ensure that the treatment of over-the-counter derivatives, eligible margin loans, and repo-style transactions is unaffected by implementation of special resolution regimes in foreign jurisdictions or by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Resolution Stay Protocol (ISDA Protocol).

MIAX Options Exchange - Winter Storm Juno Advisory

Date 26/01/2015

Please be advised that MIAX Options Exchange will be open and operating normally today, January 26th through Wednesday, January 28th.

CFTC Orders Florida Resident Anthony Lauria And His Company Gold Coast Bullion, Inc. To Pay More Than $9.6 Million In Restitution And A Civil Monetary Penalty In Off-Exchange Precious Metals Fraud

Date 26/01/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today entered an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Anthony Lauria and his company, Gold Coast Bullion, Inc. (GCB), operating out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for engaging in illegal, off-exchange precious metals transactions, for committing fraud in connection with those illegal transactions, and for operating GCB as an unregistered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).

CME Group Announces Six New Additional European Natural Gas Contracts On CME Europe

Date 26/01/2015

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives market place, announced today the launch of six new additional European Natural Gas cleared future contracts on CME Europe, adding to the four physically delivered and eight financially settled contracts which launched and began trading on Monday 19 January 2015.