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Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero: The CFTC’s Sacrosanct Responsibility To Safeguard Customer Funds To Protect Customers And Avoid Systemic Risk - Proposed Changes To Regulations Governing The Investment Of Customer Funds

Date 03/11/2023

The CFTC has a sacrosanct responsibility to safeguard customer funds held by brokers and clearinghouses.  For our markets to work well, customers must have confidence that their funds will be safe.  Safe from a broker or clearinghouse who misuses customer money for their own purposes or decides on their own to use customer funds to make risky bets chasing their own profits.

Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson: Preserving Trust And Preventing The Erosion Of Customer Protection Regulation

Date 03/11/2023

The health of our financial system and the integrity of our markets rests on the ability of customers to entrust their assets and property to custodians. Consequently, enhancing the protection of customer funds and assets and preventing the erosion of regulation that preserves customer assets is critical to the success of our economy

Statement Of Support Of CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam - Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking For Investment Of Customer Funds By Futures Commission Merchants And Derivatives Clearing Organizations

Date 03/11/2023

A fundamental tenet of the Commission’s customer protection framework is the safeguarding and investment of customer funds deposited by customers with futures commission merchants (“FCMs”) and derivatives clearing organizations (“DCOs”) to margin futures, foreign futures, and cleared swaps transactions.  This proposal to revise the Commission’s regulations for the safeguarding and investment of customer funds by FCMs and DCOs in Commission regulations 1.20, 1.25, 1.26, 1.32, 22.2, 22.3, and 30.7 along with the relevant appendices does not change this foundational principle.  This proposal embodies a prudent, periodic reassessment of these requirements to ensure that this framework remains appropriately calibrated to preserve principal and maintain liquidity.  Therefore, I support the Commission issuing this proposal for public comment.

TMX Group Consolidated Trading Statistics – October 2023

Date 03/11/2023

TMX Group Limited today announced October 2023 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange and Montréal Exchange.

FSB Europe Group Discusses Regional Developments And Lessons Learned From March Bank Failures

Date 03/11/2023

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group for Europe met today in Madrid. The group discussed global and regional financial stability issues and other topics of particular relevance to Europe. This includes the FSB work to address risks arising from leverage in non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI) and from the outsourcing of critical services by financial institutions to third parties. Members also received an update on planned FSB work for 2024.

Implications Of Current Wage Inflation − Speech By Jonathan Haskel, Member Of The Monetary Policy Committee, Bank Of England, Given At Bank Of England Watchers’ Conference, King’s College London

Date 03/11/2023

onathan talks about recent UK wage growth, and why it might be as high as it appears to be. He considers some measurement issues, and then constructs a simple economic model of wages. Finally, he considers some economic explanations for an increase in the equilibrium rate of unemployment, which may be contributing to current high wage growth.

Nigerian Exchange Group Weekly Market Report For November 3rd, 2023

Date 03/11/2023

A total turnover of 2.451 billion shares worth N40.570 billion in 37,959 deals was traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange, in contrast to a total of 1.446 billion shares valued at N25.418 billion that exchanged hands last week in 28,933 deals.

BIS: Relationship Discounts Incorporate Bond Trading

Date 03/11/2023

The over-the-counter structure of the corporate bond market makes the value of bilateral interactions particularly important for investors. For clients, an established dealer relationship can let the client buy or sell bonds more easily and cheaply. For dealers, a client relationship could be helpful for managing inventory risk, for generating larger profits from loyal clients, or for extracting information from the client's order flow. Such relationships may be particularly valuable during stress episodes like the March 2020 Covid-19 crisis. In this paper, we use a unique regulatory data set on corporate bond transactions to study bilateral trading relationships in the dealer-customer segment of the corporate bond market.

visioncapitalltd.com: BaFin Investigates Website Operator And Warns Against Identity Theft

Date 03/11/2023

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns consumers about the website visioncapitalltd.com.

Cboe Global Markets And S&P Dow Jones Indices To Launch New Credit VIX Indices On October 13

Date 03/11/2023

• Four new Credit Volatility Indices (Credit VIX) developed based on Cboe's proprietary VIX® Index methodology and S&P Dow Jones Indices' CDX and iTraxx Indices
• Designed to provide a VIX Index-like measure for credit market volatility 
• New indices added to Cboe's growing volatility index suite