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  • Japan's Financial Services Agency Vice Commissioner For International Affairs Appointed Chairman Of IOSCO's Technical Committee

    Date 22/04/2011

    International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) held its Annual Conference during April 17-21, 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa, and Masamichi Kono, Vice Commissioner for International Affairs of the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA), assumed the role of  Chairman of the Technical Committee of IOSCO succeeding Mr. Hans Hoogervorst, Chairman of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, who stepped down from the Technical Committee chairmanship at the close of the conference.  Mr. Kono's term will run until the next Annual Conference planned in May 2012 in Beijing.  Mr. Fernando Restoy, Vice-Chairman of Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores of Spain, has replaced Mr. Kono as Vice-Chairman of the Technical Committee.

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

    Date 21/04/2011

    Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Thursday, April 21, 2011:

    • Primary Corp. (TSXVN:PYC) will be removed from the index. The shares of the company will graduate to trade on the TSX under the same ticker symbol. The shares of the company will also be consolidated on a 1-for-5 basis.

  • Receiver Makes $792 Million Initial Distribution To Investors In New York Defendants Paul Greenwood’s And Stephen Walsh’s $1.3 Billion Investment Ponzi Scam Charged By The CFTC And SEC

    Date 21/04/2011

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that, based on an order entered on March 21, 2011, by the U.S. District Court for Southern District of New York (SDNY), the court-appointed Receiver, Robb Evans & Associates, LLC, has begun an initial distribution of approximately $792 million to investors in a commodity pool operated by CFTC defendants Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, who, among other defendants, were charged by the CFTC in 2009 with operating a $1.3 billion investment Ponzi scam (see CFTC Press Release 5621-09, February 25, 2009, and CFTC v. Walsh et. al., Civ. No. 09-CV-01749). This constitutes a distribution of nearly 85 percent of approved claims to investors.

  • BATS 1000 Index Up 1.4% This Week - Nine Of Ten Sectors Advance During Shortened Trading Week

    Date 21/04/2011

    BATS Global Markets, a global stock market operator, reports the  BATS 1000 Index (Ticker: BATSK) advanced 1.4% for the trading week ending April 21. The U.S. markets will be closed on Friday, April 22 in observance of Good Friday. The S&P 500 Index was up 1.3% for the  same period.

  • TSX Top 20 Largest - Consolidated Short Position Report – Highlights - April 15, 2011

    Date 21/04/2011

    Please find below the Top 20 Largest Consolidated Short Position Report Highlights. The report is produced twice monthly, effective the 15th and the end of each month. The report below covers the 2-week period ending April 15, 2011.