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ESMA Censures Standard & Poor’s For Internal Control Failings

Date 03/06/2014

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a public notice censuring Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services France SAS and Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services Europe Limited (S&P) for breaches of Regulation 1060/2009 (CRA Regulation).

U.S. Leads Multi-National Action Against GameOver Zeus Botnet And Cryptolocker Ransomeware, Charges Botnet Administrator

Date 02/06/2014

The Justice Department today announced a multi-national effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet—a global network of infected victim computers used by cyber criminals to steal millions of dollars from businesses and consumers—and unsealed criminal charges in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Omaha, Nebraska, against an administrator of the botnet. In a separate action, U.S. and foreign law enforcement officials worked together to seize computer servers central to the malicious software, or malware, known as Cryptolocker, a form of ransomware that encrypts the files on victims’ computers until they pay a ransom.

Presentation To The PCAOB Forum On Auditing Smaller Broker-Dealers, Kevin M. Stout, SEC Senior Associate Chief Accountant, Chicago, IL, May 28, 2014

Date 02/06/2014

PCAOB Forum on Auditing Smaller Broker-Dealers (PDF file)

OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 36 National Banks And Federal Savings Associations

Date 02/06/2014

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of May 1, 2014 through May 31, 2014. The list contains only national banks, federal savings associations, and insured federal branches of foreign banks that have received ratings. The possible ratings are outstanding, satisfactory, needs to improve, and substantial noncompliance.

ISE Holdings Reports Business Activity For May 2014

Date 02/06/2014

• ISE and ISE Gemini™ combined represent 16.1% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
• ISE and ISE Gemini reported a combined ADV of 2.1 million contracts.     
• Dividend trades made up 1.9% of industry volume in May 2014.

CBOE Holdings Reports May 2014 Trading Volume - Year-To-Date ADV 18% Ahead Of 2013

Date 02/06/2014

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) reported today that May 2014 trading volume for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange^® (CBOE^®) and C2 Options Exchange^SM (C2^SM) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange^SM (CFE^®) totaled 97.08 million contracts. Average daily volume (ADV) was 4.62 million contracts, a one-percent decrease from May 2013 and a nine-percent decrease from April 2014.

BOX Options Exchange Price Improvement Activity For May

Date 02/06/2014

In the month of May, price improved contracts on BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) averaged 268,548 per day, which represented a 9% increase over the same period last year. Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via BOX’s price improvement auction, PIP, averaged $429,141 per day, while total savings to investors this month was $9.0MM. With this, BOX has saved investors over $506 MM since its inception in 2004. Overall average daily trading volume on BOX in the month of May was 398,937 contracts. 

CBOE Futures Exchange Reports May 2014 Trading Volume

Date 02/06/2014

• Total CFE Volume: Three Million Contracts
• VIX Futures ADV Down One Percent From Year Ago

OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Declined In May While 2014 Volume Remains Up

Date 02/06/2014

OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume reached 319,742,239 in May, an 18 percent decrease from the May 2013 volume of 391,347,069 contracts. OCC’s year-to-date cleared contract volume remains up for 2014 with 1,789,079,351 contracts, 1 percent higher than the same point in 2013. OCC’s year-to-date average daily contract volume is up 2 percent at 17,369,702 contracts.

US Deputy Attorney General James Cole Delivers Remarks At Press Conference For Gameover Zeus And Cryptolocker Operations

Date 02/06/2014

Good afternoon and welcome, everyone.

Today, we are here to announce that, over the weekend, the Department disrupted two extremely damaging cyber threats – the financial botnet known as Gameover Zeus and the malicious software known as Cryptolocker.   Gameover Zeus has secretly diverted millions of dollars to bank accounts of criminals across the globe while Cryptolocker – a ransomware scheme – has shutout hundreds of thousands of users from their own computers and data and demanded that victims pay to get access back to their own machines and information.