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Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Welcomes Chief Executive’s Measures To Boost Hong Kong Capital Markets

Date 16/10/2024

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) welcomes the initiatives in the Chief Executive’s Policy Address to further cement Hong Kong’s position as a globally competitive international financial centre (IFC).

JPX Market Innovation & Research: TOPIX Banks High Dividend Index To Be Launched

Date 16/10/2024

JPX Market Innovation & Research, Inc. ("JPXI") will start calculating and publishing "TOPIX Banks High Dividend Index", which consist of 15 constituents with high actual dividend performance from the constituents of the TOPIX Banks.

SGX Securities Welcomes Food Innovators Holdings Limited To Catalist

Date 16/10/2024

SGX Securities is pleased to welcome Food Innovators Holdings Limited under the stock code “KYB”.

The Expectation Gap: Remarks To The Insurance Council Of Australia 2024 Annual Conference - Speech By ASIC Commissioner Alan Kirkland At The Insurance Council Of Australia 2024 Annual Conference, 16 October 2024

Date 16/10/2024

Key points

• Improving consumer outcomes is a key strategic priority for ASIC. We are focused on improving insurers’ claims handling, dispute resolution, and treatment of vulnerable customers.
• Insurance can be complex, but customers’ expectations are often simple. Listening and responding to those expectations is critical to rebuilding trust and confidence in the industry.
• We remain concerned about the number of unresolved claims from the 2022 floods. It is time to give these individuals and families closure.

Announcement Of JSCC And DTCC Collaboration On Digital Assets [ A Proof-Of-Concept With Collateral Using "DTCC Digital Launchpad" ]

Date 16/10/2024

DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; the world's largest clearing and settlement institution based in the United States), which has long been a global leader in the new DLT/blockchain technology field, and JSCC (Japan Securities Clearing Corporation) have collaborated to conduct a proof-of-concept on collateral use cases using digital assets and have published an overview report on the DTCC website below.

Temporarily Terrified By Thomas: Remarks On Private Credit Before The SIFMA/Mayer Brown Private Credit Forum, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, Washington D.C., Oct. 15, 2024

Date 15/10/2024

Thank you, Joe [Seidel] for that introduction, and thanks to Mayer Brown and SIFMA for hosting today’s event. It is a timely event, and I look forward to the discussion. Before I begin, I must remind you that my views are my own as a Commissioner and not necessarily those of the Securities and Exchange Commission or my fellow Commissioners.

CFTC: Division Of Clearing And Risk Announces Participants And Agenda For October 16 Staff Roundtable On Existing, New And Emerging Issues In Clearing

Date 15/10/2024

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk today released the participant list and agenda for its upcoming staff roundtable on existing, new, and emerging issues in clearing being held Oct. 16 at 9:00 a.m. EDT in the Conference Center at CFTC's headquarters at Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street N.W., Washington, D.C.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 15/10/2024

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available: http://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/SwapsReports/index.htm.

CFTC Commissioner Mersinger And Former CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo To Participate In A Fireside Chat At BlockTower Capital’s Fifth Annual Investor Day

Date 15/10/2024

CFTC Charges Several People And Companies In A $280 Million Ponzi Scheme - Court Issues Restraining Order To Protect Assets And Documents

Date 15/10/2024

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against:

• Traders Domain FX LTD. d/b/a The Traders Domain, a St. Vincent and the Grenadines company with principal operations in Canada, and its two co-founders, Fredirick Teddy Joseph Safranko, a/k/a Ted Safranko, of Ontario or British Columbia, Canada, and David William Negus-Romvari of Ontario, Canada and Mexico
• Ares Global Ltd. d/b/a Trubluefx, a Saint Lucia company
• Algo Capital LLC, a Florida company
• Algo FX Capital Advisor LLC n/k/a Quant5 Advisor LLC., a Delaware company with principal operations in Medley, Florida, and four of their officers and agents including Robert Collazo Jr. of Miami Lakes, Florida, Juan Jose Herman a/k/a/ JJ Herman of Miami, John Fortini of North Miami, Florida, and Stephen Likos of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
• Michael Shannon Sims of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
• Holton Buggs Jr., of Houston
• Centurion Capital Group Inc., a Florida company, and three of its officers and agents including Alejandro Santiestaban a/k/a Alex Santi, Gabriel Beltran, both of Hialeah, Florida, and Archie Rice of Fulshear, Texas