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Dalian Commodity Exchange: Notice On Adjustments To Minimum Trading Margin, Price Limits And After-Hours Trading Time During The 2016 Dragon Boat Festival

Date 03/06/2016

According to Clause 9 of the “Measures for Risk Management of Dalian Commodity Exchange”, it has been decided upon discussion that DCE would make the following adjustments to the trading margin and price limits of each product before and after the 2016 Dragon Boat Festival:

From the settlement on June 7, 2016 (Tuesday), the price limits of Soybean Meal and Iron Ore will be adjusted to 7% with the minimum trading margin to be adjusted to 9%; those of other products will remain unchanged.
ASX Group Monthly Activity Report - May 2016

Date 03/06/2016

The value of ASX-listed stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, rose 2.5% in May 2016. This performance was comparable to some major markets including Japan up 3.4%, and Germany up 2.2%. The US was up 1.5%, while the UK was down 0.2%, Hong Kong down 1.2%, and Singapore down 1.7%.
David Martin Appointed Chair Of FIA Asia Regional Advisory Board

Date 03/06/2016

FIA announced that David Martin of J.P. Morgan has been appointed chairman of the Asia Regional Advisory Board for a two year term. He replaced Paul Davies, who stepped down after retiring from Goldman Sachs.
New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: Investigation Into Morgan Cooper Limited

Date 03/06/2016

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) is investigating a complaint received in relation to Morgan Cooper Limited (MCL) and a Mr Rodney McCall (aka Rodney Crichton) for potential contraventions of financial markets legislation.
ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report - May 2016

Date 03/06/2016

Attached is a copy of the ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report for May 2016.

SIFMA’s Bentsen Delivers Remarks At The SIFMA-TCH Prudential Regulation Conference

Date 02/06/2016

SIFMA president and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., today delivered introductory remarks on prudential regulation at an event co-hosted by SIFMA and The Clearing House in Washington, D.C. An excerpt is as follows with full remarks found here: http://www.sifma.org/news/news.aspx?id=8589960684.
CFTC Staff To Hold Roundtable On Certain Elements Of Regulation AT

Date 02/06/2016

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC or Commission) Division of Market Oversight announced today that staff will hold a public roundtable meeting, to discuss certain elements of the Commission’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding Regulation Automated Trading (Regulation AT). The Regulation AT NPRM was published in the Federal Register (80 FR 78824) on December 17, 2015.
US Department Of Justice: Two Former Deutsche Bank Employees Indicted On Fraud Charges In Connection With Long-Running Manipulation Of Libor

Date 02/06/2016

Two former Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank) traders—the bank’s supervisor of the Pool Trading Desk in New York and a derivatives trader in London—were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to manipulate the U.S. Dollar (USD) London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate to which trillions of dollars in interest rate contracts were tied.
Statement From New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman On Case Against Hank Greenberg

Date 02/06/2016

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued the following statement today in connection with a State Court of Appeals decision in the case against Hank Greenberg, which will allow New York’s fraud claims to proceed to trial. The decision will also allow New York State to seek to recover bonuses the defendants earned while committing their alleged fraud:

“Since 2005, this office has sought to hold Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Smith responsible for financial fraud and manipulation during their tenure at A.I.G. Today, New York’s highest court has allowed those claims to proceed to trial, where we look forward to demonstrating that Mr. Greenberg and his associates orchestrated two major frauds that caused massive losses to A.I.G.’s shareholders. Nobody – no matter how rich or powerful – is allowed to commit fraud in our state, and we are very pleased the people of New York will finally have a chance to obtain justice at trial.”
Federal Reserve Board Announces Schedule For Results from Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests And Comprehensive Capital Analysis And Review (CCAR)

Date 02/06/2016

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that results from the latest supervisory stress tests conducted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act will be released on Thursday, June 23, and the related results from the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), will be released on Wednesday, June 29. Results for both exercises will be released at 4:30 p.m. EDT.