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Polish Financial Supervision Authority Approves Warsaw Stock Exchange Prospectus

Date 30/11/2016

• PFSA has approved the WSE series D and E bond prospectus.
• WSE will issue up to 1.2 million bearer bonds with a nominal value of PLN 100 per bond.

CFTC Obtains $21.8 Million Default Judgment Against Former CBOE Member Alvin Guy Wilkinson And His Connecticut-Based Firms For Misappropriation Of Customer Funds And Fraudulent Solicitation In Ponzi Scheme

Date 30/11/2016

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Virginia Kendall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered an Order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Defendants Alvin Guy Wilkinson of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his entities, Chicago Index Partners, L.P. (CIP) and Wilkinson Financial Opportunity Fund, L.P. (WFOF), both located in Sharon, Connecticut, in connection with a commodity pool fraud that victimized 30 investors. The Order finds that Wilkinson misappropriated pool funds, fraudulently solicited pool participants, issued false statements to customers and provided false financial information to the National Futures Association (NFA). The Order also finds that Defendants were not registered with the CFTC, as required.

CME Clearing Europe Approved As A Derivatives Clearing Organization By CFTC

Date 30/11/2016

CME Clearing Europe, CME Group's London-based clearing house, today announced that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has registered it as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) which allows it to clear swaps for US customers of US Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs).

ACER: Europe’s Energy Regulators Welcome The Commission’s “Clean Energy For All Europeans” Proposals

Date 30/11/2016

ACER and CEER, representing Europe’s energy regulators, welcome the “new Clean Energy for All Europeans” proposals adopted today by the European Commission. The Commission’s proposals will be publicly discussed at our dedicated conference on the new energy market design for the clean energy transition (23-24 January, 2017). Find out more here.

Federal Reserve Governor Jerome H. Powell At The "Understanding Fedspeak" Event Cosponsored By The Hutchins Center On Fiscal And Monetary Policy At The Brookings Institution And The Center For Financial Economics At Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., November 30, 2016, A View From The Fed

Date 30/11/2016

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Thanks to David Wessel and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution for putting together this event. Today I will share my own views on the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) public communications, which are designed to serve three important purposes. The first is to provide the transparency that enables the Congress and the public to hold the Committee accountable for its decisions on monetary policy. The second is to enhance the effectiveness of monetary policy. If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result. And the third is to show the full range of FOMC participants' views, even if doing so may sometimes make it difficult for the public to identify a consensus view. In my view, acknowledgment of this diversity of views is important in sustaining the public's support over time for the Federal Reserve as an institution--what Jon Faust refers to in his paper as our "democratic legitimacy." In my comments, I will also react to Jon's thought-provoking and well-reasoned paper.

EBA Amends Supervisory Reporting Standards Due To The New IFRS 9

Date 30/11/2016

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its amended final draft implementing technical standards (ITS) on the reporting of financial information. The amended ITS follow the finalisation of IFRS 9 in July 2014 by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and its endorsement into EU law on 22 November 2016 and aim at aligning the reporting framework with the new IFRS 9 requirements while ensuring reporting institutions have adequate implementation time. 

UK's Financial Conduct Authority: Two Plead Guilty To Insider Dealing

Date 30/11/2016

In a case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Manjeet Mohal and Reshim Birk have today pleaded guilty to three counts of insider dealing on day three of their trial at the Central Criminal Court. They will be sentenced on 13 January 2017.

Bank Of England Statement On Polymer Banknotes

Date 30/11/2016

The Bank of England aware of some people’s concerns about traces of tallow in our new five pound note. We respect those concerns and are treating them with the utmost seriousness.

TSX Venture Insight

Date 30/11/2016

Welcome to the 7th edition of TSX Venture Insight

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United Kingdom Parliament Treasury Committee Update: Letter From Philip Hammond, Chancellor Of The Exchequer, Regarding Government Reassurances Provided To Nissan, Dated 29 November 2016

Date 30/11/2016