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Remarks By U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew At The Meeting Of The Financial Stability Oversight Council

Date 25/04/2013

I would like to call the Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting back to order.

I want to start by welcoming Mary Jo White to the Council. I also want to thank Elisse Walter for her hard work over the past several months.

Financial Stability Oversight Council Releases Third Annual Report

Date 25/04/2013

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (Council) today unanimously approved its 2013 annual report, which was developed collaboratively by the members of the Council and their agencies and staff.  Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the Council must report annually to Congress on a range of issues, including the activities of the Council, significant financial market and regulatory developments, and potential emerging threats to the financial stability of the United States.  The report must also make recommendations to promote market discipline, maintain investor confidence, and enhance the integrity, efficiency, competitiveness, and stability of U.S. financial markets.

Statement Of Chairman Gary Gensler Before The Financial Stability Oversight Council

Date 25/04/2013

I support the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) annual report and the recommendations. I want thank the FSOC members and their staffs for their work on this year’s important report and capturing the vulnerability to our financial system in its seven themes. I appreciate and wish to compliment their dedication to and coordination on financial reform.

SEC Seeks To Halt Scheme Raising Investor Funds Under Guise Of Jobs Act

Date 25/04/2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Spokane Valley, Wash., company and its owner for misleading investors with claims to raise billions of investment capital under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act and invest it exclusively in American businesses.

Program Trading Averaged 28.9 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Apr. 15-19

Date 25/04/2013

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database.  The report includes trading on the NYSE for Apr. 15-19.

All CBOE Products To Resume Trading By Noon CT

Date 25/04/2013

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) reports that it plans to open trading at 12 p.m. CT today for all products that have not already opened. Three products - SPX, SPXpm and SPX Weeklys - opened at 11:50 a.m.

CBOE Notice: Trading Delay

Date 25/04/2013

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) trading was delayed today.  The exchange is working on bringing trading up. We will issue more information as soon as it is available.

New CFTC Anti-Fraud Resources Released For Financial Capability Month

Date 25/04/2013

Washington, DC – President Obama proclaimed April as National Financial Capability Month stating, “All Americans deserve the chance to turn their hard work into a decent living.” Financial fraud, including Ponzi schemes, can turn all that hard work into nothing but memories and unrealized dreams. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is part of the effort to fight fraud, having filed a number of cases charging fraud among the 102 enforcement cases brought in fiscal year 2012. To also help combat financial fraud, the CFTC’s Office of Consumer Outreach is making available new print resources to help consumers learn ways to protect themselves from frequently encountered and potentially devastating commodity futures trading frauds. Print brochures and the book, Ponzimonium, written by CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton, are available for free download. These materials are available to the public on CFTC’sconsumer resources web page. Hard copies of the materials can also be ordered through the Federal Citizen Information Center at www.Publications.USA.gov or by calling 800.FED.INFO (800.333.4636).

IMF Says Decisive Action In Europe Can Strengthen Growth And Avoid Economic Stagnation

Date 25/04/2013

IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton today called on European policy makers to take decisive and sustained actions to strengthen the continent’s prospects for growth and avoid the risk of stagnation. In a speech in London, he praised “the important steps taken by the euro area” to address the crisis and urged further reforms “if Europe is to place the crisis in the rearview mirror and finally return to growth and job creation.”

EEX Concludes Phase II Auctions

Date 25/04/2013

The last primary market auction of EU allowances (EUA) for the second trading phase took place today on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) Spot Market.