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Volante Technologies And Open Banking Experts Open Vector Announce Partnership - Bringing A Much Needed Rapidly Implementable End-To-End Open Banking Solution To Clients Across The Globe

Date 15/11/2017

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages on premise or as a cloud service, today announced its partnership with Open Vector, an advisory firm specialising in providing open banking consultancy services.

Tokyo Financial Exchange: Launch Of Daily Futures Based On Gold /Crude Oil ETF Index Price

Date 15/11/2017

TFX has decided to introduce Daily futures based on gold bullion ETF Index price and Daily futures based on Crude oil ETF Index price on “Click Kabu 365” market.

SGX Welcomes Xin Hua Securities Limited As Derivatives Trading Member

Date 15/11/2017

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Hong Kong-based Xin Hua Securities to its derivatives market as a Trading Member.

Remarks Of CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo To The Singapore FinTech Festival

Date 15/11/2017

Introduction

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your kind welcome.

I want to thank Tim Adams for his kind introduction. I am looking forward to sitting down with him and taking your questions after I give these remarks.

It is hard to think of a more timely subject than the one that underpins the Singapore FinTech Festival.

Outcome Of New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Investigation Into Goldman Sachs NZ Ltd

Date 15/11/2017

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has concluded an investigation into certain trading activity by Goldman Sachs New Zealand LTD (GS). The GS investigation was prompted by concerns arising from an investigation into trading by Mark Warminger and Milford Asset Management.

Remarks Of CFTC Commissioner Rostin Behnam At The Georgetown Center For Financial Markets And Policy - “The Dodd-Frank Inflection Point: Building On Derivatives Reform”

Date 14/11/2017

Good afternoon. And thank you for your warm welcome. It is truly an honor to be back at Georgetown, and a privilege to be speaking to you today. Before I begin, I want to thank the Center for Financial Markets and Policy for hosting me today; Scott Fleming, the University’s Associate Vice President for Federal Relations; and Dr. Aggarwal for taking time out of her busy schedule to facilitate a more informal conversation after these prepared remarks.

CFTC's Division Of Market Oversight Extends Time-Limited No-Action Relief For Swap Execution Facilities From Certain Block Trade Requirements

Date 14/11/2017

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today extended time-limited no-action relief to swap execution facilities (SEFs) from certain requirements in the definition of “block trade” in CFTC regulation 43.2.

SIFMA: Associations Request SEC Modernize Electronic Recordkeeping Requirements

Date 14/11/2017

Several trade associations have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to update its broker-dealer electronic retention Rule 17a-4 by eliminating an outdated recordkeeping requirement known as WORM (write once, read many), examining authority notification, and third-party downloader requirements.  In their place, the Associations proposed a rigorous retention standard that is technology-neutral and consistent with current business record management principles.  The amendments would also harmonize the SEC rules with the correlating principles-based CFTC rules adopted in May 2017 which eliminated the WORM standard and third-party downloader requirements from CFTC.

CFTC Orders INTL FCStone Financial Inc. And FCStone Merchant Services LLC To Pay Penalty For Unlawful Exchange For Related Position Transactions

Date 14/11/2017

• INTL FCStone Financial had inadequate supervisory systems and controls to detect and deter the unlawful conduct

EBA Releases Its Annual Assessment Of The Consistency Of Internal Model Outcomes

Date 14/11/2017

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today two reports on the consistency of risk weighted assets (RWAs) across all EU institutions authorised to use internal approaches for the calculation of capital requirements. The reports cover credit risk for large corporate, institutions, and sovereign portfolios (collectively referred to as "low default portfolios" - LDP), as well as market risk. The results confirm previous findings, with the majority of risk-weights (RWs) variability explained by fundamentals. These benchmarking exercises, conducted by the EBA on an annual basis are a fundamental supervisory and convergence tool to address unwarranted inconsistencies and restoring trust in internal models.