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  • Statement On Jury's Verdict In Trial Of Mykalai Kontilai And Collectors Coffee Inc, Gurbir S. Grewal, Director, SEC Division Of Enforcement

    Date 14/12/2023

    On Dec. 13, 2023, after a seven-day trial, a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found Mykalai Kontilai and his company, Collectors Coffee, Inc. (a/k/a Collectors Café) liable for securities fraud.  Each were found liable in connection with their roles in a fraudulent securities offering and Kontilai’s misappropriation of millions of dollars in investor proceeds.

  • SEC Obtains Emergency Relief To Halt $191 Million Cattle Ponzi Scheme

    Date 14/12/2023

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it obtained a temporary restraining order, asset freeze, the appointment of a receiver, and other emergency relief to halt an ongoing $191 million cattle Ponzi scheme being perpetrated by Fort Worth, Texas company Agridime LLC, which claims to specialize in meat sales, distribution, and animal supply chain management, and its owners, Josh Link of Gilbert, Arizona, and Jed Wood of Fort Worth. The SEC alleges that the defendants diverted millions of dollars of investor funds to make Ponzi payments and to pay undisclosed sales commissions to themselves and others.

  • CME Group SOFR Open Interest Surpasses Record 60 Million Contracts

    Date 14/12/2023

    CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that open interest in its deeply liquid SOFR complex set a new record of 60,435,467 contracts on December 12, including 48.3 million options contracts and 12.1 million futures contracts. Average daily volume (ADV) in SOFR futures and options this year also reached a record 5.1 million contracts.

  • DTCC Comments On SEC Ruling Around Expanded US Treasury Clearing

    Date 14/12/2023

    DTCC issued the following statement:

    The SEC recently issued rule amendments around its 2022 expanded U.S. treasury clearing proposal, bringing added regulatory clarity around the scope of the clearing requirements and implementation timelines. The final rules require a significantly larger portion of the U.S. Treasury cash and repo markets - specifically certain eligible secondary market transactions - to be centrally cleared by December 31, 2025 for cash transactions and June 30, 2026 for repo transactions. As a covered clearing agency, FICC will take the necessary steps as required under the amendments to prepare for this significant initiative.

  • ESMA Proposes Changes And Updates Timeline For Its Guidelines On Funds’ Names

    Date 14/12/2023

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, today provides an update on the status of ESMA’s guidelines on ESG and sustainability-related terms in fund names, including details on the timing of their publication.