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CBOE Holdings Reports May 2016 Trading Volume - Total Index Options ADV Up 8% From May 2015 - VIX Futures ADV Up 31% From May 2015 - SPX Options ADV Up 13% From May 2015

Date 01/06/2016

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) reported today that May average daily volume (ADV) for options contracts traded on Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), and futures contracts traded on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE®) was 4.3 million contracts, an increase of 2 percent from April 2016 and relatively unchanged from May 2015. 

SEC: Brokerage Firm Charged With Anti-Money Laundering Failures

Date 01/06/2016

Canadian Securities Regulators Announce Contractual Agreement To Renew CSA National System

Date 01/06/2016

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Inc. (CGI) to renew the CSA National Systems.

Professor John Colley, Warwick Business School Professor of Practice in the Strategy & International Group, Comments On The LSEG Saying Its Merger With Deutsche Boerse Could Lead To 1,250 Job Losses

Date 01/06/2016

Commenting on the LSE saying its merger with Deutsche Boerse could lead to 1,250 job lossesProfessor John Colley, Warwick Business School Professor of Practice in the Strategy & International Group, said: "The announcement does not indicate where the job losses will fall, suggesting they will be spread between the businesses. There is concern that the bulk may fall in London as redundancies will be cheaper there than in Germany. Secondly there is some scepticism as to whether this is truly a 'merger of equals' or a German takeover. No doubt this will become clearer with time. 

SEC Adopts Amendment To Form 10-K Implementing FAST Act Provision

Date 01/06/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has approved an interim final rule that allows Form 10-K filers to provide a summary of business and financial information contained in the annual report.  The rule implements a provision of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. 

CFTC Staff To Hold Roundtable On Certain Elements Of Regulation AT

Date 01/06/2016

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC or Commission) Division of Market Oversight announced 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.

Thomson Reuters Unveils Electrical-Energy Outlook Through 2045 And Related Business Insights - Disruption In Fossil-Fuel-Based Sources Of Power Will Lead To More Open Markets, Stranded Assets And Carbon Taxes

Date 01/06/2016

Thomson Reuters today released its outlook on the electrical-energy landscape for the next three decades confirming a disruptive shift toward alternative energy in its report titled Powering the Planet 2045 (#poweringtheplanet). The most viable and scalable methods for generating electricity in the next 10 – 30 years will be Hydro-Wave, Nuclear Fusion and Solar Photovoltaics, the latter of which increased 160 percent in innovation activity since 2010, according to the report’s findings.

OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up Four Percent In May - Securities Lending Activity Up 52 Percent In May And 46 Percent Year-To-Date

Date 01/06/2016

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced that cleared contract volume in May reached 319,533,636 contracts, a four percent increase from the May 2015 volume of 308,639,215 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is also up four percent from 2015 with 16,734,689 contracts.

OneChicago Announces Trading Volume For May 2016 - May Volume Up 4% Year-Over-Year

Date 01/06/2016

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), a securities finance exchange, today announced its May 2016 volume of 1,043,097, an increase of 4% year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,800 equities, including ADRs and ETFs. 

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 01/06/2016

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.