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Testimony Before The Senate Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs - CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler

Date 30/09/2010

Good morning Chairman Dodd, Ranking Member Shelby and members of the Committee. I thank you for inviting me to today’s hearing on implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. I am honored to appear at today’s hearing alongside fellow regulators with whom we are working so closely to implement the Dodd-Frank Act. I also look forward to joining my fellow panelists as members of the new Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). I am pleased to testify on be
Statement By The US Treasury Department On AIG Exit Plan

Date 30/09/2010

Today, American International Group Inc. (AIG) announced that it has reached an agreement-in-principle with the US Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the trustees of the AIG Credit Facility Trust to restructure the company, putting it in a stronger position to repay taxpayers.
“Clearinghouses As Mitigators Of Systemic Risk” - Remarks Before The Capital Markets Consortium - CFTC Commissioner Jill E. Sommers

Date 30/09/2010

Thank you for that kind welcome. It is an honor to be here today with the Capital Markets Consortium to discuss new clearing mandates imposed by Dodd-Frank, the current state of regulatory reform at the CFTC, where I think the CFTC will be heading in the next year or so, and what I believe are some of the more difficult challenges the CFTC and market participants will face as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is implemented.
NYSE Announces Fourth-Quarter 2010 Circuit-Breaker Levels

Date 30/09/2010

The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit-breaker collar trigger levels for fourth-quarter 2010 effective Friday, October 1, 2010.
CFTC Charges Texas-Based Company And Its Principals With Issuing False Account Statements In Foreign Currency Anti-Fraud Action - Total Call Group, Inc., Thomas Patrick Thurmond And Craig B. Poe Solicited Approximately $808,000 From Customers

Date 30/09/2010

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today charged Total Call Group, Inc. (aka TPFX, Inc. a/k/a Power Play FX) of Frisco, Texas, and its principals, Craig B. Poe, also of Frisco, and Thomas Patrick Thurmond (aka Patrick Thurmond) of San Antonio, Texas, with issuing false customer account statements in connection with an off-exchange foreign currency (forex) fraud.

SEC Charges Family Insider Trading Ring in Million-Dollar Scheme

Date 30/09/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of freight railway employees and four family members with perpetrating an insider trading scheme that garnered more than $1 million in illegal profits.
CFTC Charges Rodney W. Whitney, Nicholas T. Cox And Their Trading Firm, Integra Capital Management LLC, With Operating A $3 Million Ponzi Scheme - Federal Court Freezes Assets Of The North Carolina-Based Defendants Charged With Fraud And Misappropriation.

Date 30/09/2010

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it obtained an emergency federal court order freezing the assets of defendants Rodney W. Whitney of Thomasville, N.C., Nicholas T. Cox of Denton, N.C., and Integra Capital Management LLP (Integra Capital), which formerly operated out of High Point, N.C. The order, entered on September 29, 2010 by Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, also pr
SEC: Former State Street Employees Charged For Misleading Investors About Subprime Mortgage Investments

Date 30/09/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of former employees at Boston-based State Street Bank and Trust Company with misleading investors about their exposure to subprime investments.
New Woodbine Report: U.S. Exchange And ECN Performance, Second Half 2009 - Market order, Marketable Limit Order, And Displayed Limit Order Handling At Exchanges And ECNs

Date 30/09/2010

Woodbine Associates (http://www.woodbineassociates.com) announces the release of a new report entitled “U.S. Exchange and ECN Performance, Second Half 2009.” The report focuses on how exchanges and ECNs compare in terms of the handling of basic order types central to price discovery.
Athens Exchange Board of Directors Decides To Introduce FIX Protocol For Order Routing

Date 30/09/2010

The Board of Directors of the Athens Exchange, during today's session, approved: The enrichment of the technological services provided by ATHEX for order routing to ATHEX markets and the X-Net Network. In particular: the introduction of the FIX protocol for order routing to ATHEX markets, the introduction of the «X-order Client» for order routing to the markets supported by the X-Net Network.