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OCC Wins Gold For The Best Annual Report At The FCS Portfolio Awards

Date 02/05/2014

OCC announced today that its 2012 annual report won top honors taking the Gold for the best annual report at the 2014 FCS Portfolio Awards presented by the Financial Communications Society in New York City on May 1, 2014.

SEC Issues Partial Stay Of Conflict Minerals Rules

Date 02/05/2014

The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued an order staying the effective date for compliance with the portions of Exchange Act Rule 13p-1 and Form SD that would require statements by issuers that the Court of Appeals held would violate the First Amendment (see Nat’l Ass’n of Mfrs. v. SEC, No. 13-5252, D.C. Cir., Apr. 14, 2014).

Federal Court Freezes Assets Of EJS Capital Management, LLC, Alex Vladimir Ekdeshman And Edward J. Servider And Relief Defendants In CFTC Action Charging Misappropriation Of Nearly $2 Million In Ongoing Forex Fraud Scheme - Defendant Ekdeshman Also Charged With Violating Federal Court Order

Date 02/05/2014

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that The Honorable Kevin P. Castel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on May 1, 2014, entered a restraining order freezing assets and prohibiting the destruction or concealment of books and records of Defendants EJS Capital Management, LLC (EJS), Alex Vladimir Ekdeshman of Holmdel, N.J., and Edward J. Servider of Staten Island, N.Y (collectively Defendants), and of Relief Defendants Alisa Ekdeshman of Holmdel, N.J. (Ekdeshman’s wife),Executive Services of Florida LLC, Executive Management Services of Montana Inc., andMichael Vilner of Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 18, 2014

Date 02/05/2014

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 18, 2014. 

Chief Economist And Division Of Economic And Risk Analysis Director Craig Lewis To Leave SEC

Date 02/05/2014

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Chief Economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) Director Craig M. Lewis will leave the agency today.   He will return to his position as the Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.

Irish Stock Exchange: ISEQ Records Gain Of 10% In Q1 2014

Date 02/05/2014

• 1.1m equity trades in the first quarter of 2014 – an increase of 43% on Q1 2013
• €284m raised in Q1 as influx of new equity listings continues with Dalata IP
• More than 22,000 debt instruments listed at end Q1 – up 3% so far in 2014

TheCityUK Comments On The Appointment Of Dominic Jeremy As Chief Executive Of UKTI

Date 02/05/2014

TheCityUK welcomes the news of Dominic Jeremy’s appointment as the new CEO of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI). 

Key Figures SIX Swiss Exchange And SIX Structured Products Exchange: April 2014

Date 02/05/2014

• Trading turnover since the start of the year: CHF 401.3 billion (+11.9% versus 2013) 
• Average trading turnover per day since the start of the year of CHF 4.9 billion
• Thurgauer Kantonalbank and Bravofly Rumbo Group N.V. now listed on SIX Swiss Exchange 

Tradeweb European Credit Update - iTraxx Europe Main Index Fails To Break 70 Bp Level While Alstom's Spreads Tighten Following Acquisition

Date 02/05/2014

In April, there was strong selling of senior banks/financials cash credit, with the buy/sell volume ratio at 10.81%/13.55%.

Mainstay Medical Floats On The Irish Stock Exchange

Date 02/05/2014

Mainstay Medical International plc (Mainstay Medical) has today floated on the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE). Mainstay Medical raised €18m on its admission to the Enterprise Securities Market (ESM) and commenced trading with a market capitalisation of €90m.