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  • CFTC’s Division Of Swap Dealer And Intermediary Oversight Issues Time Limited No-Action Letters For Operators Of Certain FundsOof Funds

    Date 30/11/2012

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) issued time limited no-action relief to the operators of funds of funds. The letter provides that DSIO will not recommend that the CFTC take enforcement action against the commodity pool operator of a fund of funds for failure to register as such until the later of June 30, 2013, or six months after the effective date (or compliance date, if later) of any revised guidance that DSIO issues on the application of the de minimis thresholds to funds of funds in the context of CFTC regulations 4.5 and 4.13(a)(3), provided that the commodity pool operator files a claim for no-action relief and that claim meets certain criteria specified in the letter.

  • MSCI Completes Acquisition Of IPD Group

    Date 30/11/2012

    MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, MSCI Limited, has completed its acquisition of IPD Group Limited.  

  • CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

    Date 30/11/2012

    The current reports for the week of November 27, 2012  are now available.

  • GETCO Strategic Investments SEC Filing Proposal For Business Combination Between GETCO And Knight Capital Group

    Date 30/11/2012

    Dear Members of the Board:

    On behalf of GETCO Holding Company, LLC (“GETCO”), I am pleased to submit this proposal for a business combination (“Merger”) between GETCO and Knight Capital Group, Inc. (“Knight”). The specific terms of our proposal described below have been unanimously approved by GETCO’s Board of Directors. I am convinced that this Merger would unlock tremendous value for the shareholders of both firms while establishing a global leader in market-making and agency execution.

  • “Be Careful What You Ask For, You Might Just Get It” - Statement By CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton On 2012 Research Conference To Discuss Key Issues In Derivatives Markets, Washington, DC

    Date 30/11/2012

    There’s a song by Everclear “Be Careful What You Ask for, You Might Just Get it.” Wall Street and its’ allies, many of whom make a pretty penny speculating and facilitating speculation in commodity markets, want the Commission to rebut the view that speculation affects commodity futures prices. There are indeed some studies out there that made findings consistent with this view. For example, Irwin and Sanders (OECD 2011) found that “Massive Passives” (commodity index funds) are not likely to have caused a commodity price bubble in the late 2000s. Many of these studies relied on the so-called Granger causality test and data from the weekly CFTC Commitment of Traders Report.