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Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For Week Ending 21 October 2016

Date 21/10/2016

A turnover of 674.721 million shares worth N7.657 billion in 12,290 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 1.163 billion shares valued at N9.251 billion that exchanged hands last week in 14,992 deals.

EU Budget: "We Have To Deal With The Problem Caused By Brexit"

Date 21/10/2016

The UK's decision to leave the Union will already affect the EU's budget for next year. "There has already been an unforeseeable situation and now we have to deal with this problem," said Jens Geier, the MEP who will negotiate on behalf of the Parliament regarding the bulk of the EU's budget for 2017. MEPs will vote on Parliament's position in plenary on 26 October. We talked to the German S&D member about how Brexit is affecting the budget and the upcoming negotiations with the Council

Decisions Taken By The Governing Council Of The ECB (In Addition To Decisions Setting Interest Rates)

Date 21/10/2016

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Collateral eligibility criteria and risk control measures for unsecured bank bonds

On 4 October 2016 the Governing Council decided on changes to the collateral eligibility criteria and risk control measures applicable to senior unsecured debt instruments issued by credit institutions or investment firms or their closely linked entities. These instruments, also known as unsecured bank bonds (UBBs), will remain eligible for use as collateral for the time being, subject to additional risk control measures. In particular, the usage limit for UBBs will be reduced from 5% to 2.5% with effect from 1 January 2017. The Governing Council will review its decision in the course of 2017 to take account of the progress made within that period towards a common EU approach to the creditor hierarchy in cases of bank insolvency and resolution. A detailed press release explaining these changes is available on the ECB’s website.

Remarks Of US Treasury Acting Under Secretary Adam Szubin On Countering The Financing Of Terrorism At The Paul H. Nitze School Of Advanced International Studies

Date 21/10/2016

Thank you so much, Dean Nasr and Professor Cohen.  And thank you to SAIS for hosting me today.  Although this is my first time speaking formally at SAIS, I feel like I have a longstanding relationship with this institution.  Many of our best and brightest TFI staff have come from SAIS, including policy staff, intel analysts, sanctions investigators, and enforcement agents.  And I don’t think that’s an accident or simply a fluke of geography. There may be no other school that is instilling its graduates with such economic rigor and strategic judgment.

Remarks At 2016 Conference On Auditing and Capital Markets [1], SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar, Washington, DC, Oct. 21, 2016

Date 21/10/2016

Good morning and thank you, Chairman Doty, for that kind introduction. Chairman Doty, Board Members Harris, Ferguson, Hanson, and Franzel, members of the Board staff, and distinguished guests, it is a privilege and a pleasure to be here at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB” or “Board”) 2016 Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 42, 2016

Date 21/10/2016

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 42, 2016.

MIAX Options Exchange: System Settings For MIAX Complex Orders

Date 21/10/2016

MIAX recently received approval to trade Complex Orders on the Exchange (SR-MIAX 2016 26).  Complex Orders will be available to trade on Monday, October 24, 2016 beginning with iShares Russell 2000 Index, symbol IWM.

Speech By Federal Reserve Governor Daniel K. Tarullo, At The Conference On The New Pedagogy Of Financial Regulation, Columbia Law School, New York, New York, October 21, 2016, Pedagogy And Scholarship In A Post-Crisis World

Date 21/10/2016

Let me begin with the most prosaic of observations: The events of 2007-09 will be remembered not as a banking crisis, but as a financial crisis. Neither the origins nor the transmission of stress were limited to the traditional banking system of commercial banks and thrifts. While Wachovia and Washington Mutual failed, and other large depository institutions survived only because of government support, the more spectacular failures were those of nonbank financial firms--including American International Group (AIG), Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Repurchase agreement (repo) and commercial paper markets depended on government liquidity to continue operating, as did money market funds.

Irish Stock Exchange Publishes Statistics For Q3 2016

Date 21/10/2016

Q3 2016 statistics show over 35,000 securities listed on ISE markets

Keynote Remarks Of CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad At The Managed Funds Association Outlook 2016 Conference

Date 21/10/2016

Thank you for that kind introduction. I’m pleased to be with you today, and I thank you for inviting me.

There is a lot going on at the CFTC. In the last six weeks, we have finalized important rules to enhance cybersecurity in critical market infrastructure. We have mandated additional clearing requirements for interest rate swaps that are, or will soon be, subject to a clearing mandate in another jurisdiction. We issued a proposal regarding the cross-border application of some of our swap rules, and ordered a one-year delay in the decrease of the swap dealer de minimis threshold. And there is a lot going on in the area of clearinghouse resilience, recovery, and resolution.