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U.S. Treasury Releases Joint Fact Sheet On Anti-Money Laundering And Sanctions Enforcement

Date 30/08/2016

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a Joint Fact Sheet on Foreign Correspondent Banking developed with the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that outlines supervisory and enforcement processes with respect to anti-money laundering and sanctions in the area of correspondent banking.

SEC Whistleblower Program Surpasses $100 Million In Awards

Date 30/08/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s awards to whistleblowers have surpassed the $100 million mark with the program’s second-largest award of more than $22 millionannounced earlier today.

CFTC Extends Comment Period On Proposed Amendments To Regulation 4.22 Regarding CPO Annual Reports

Date 30/08/2016

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has extended the comment period on its proposed amendments to Regulation 4.22, which concerns the Annual Report that each commodity pool operator registered or required to be registered with the CFTC must distribute for each commodity pool that it operates. The original comment period was set to expire September 6, 2016. See 81 Fed. Reg. 51828 (Aug. 5, 2016). With this extension, the comment period will expire September 20, 2016.

Reuters Collaborates With Graphiq To Deliver Suite Of Interactive Data Visualizations To Publishers

Date 30/08/2016

Today Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news provider, announced a collaboration with semantic technology company Graphiq to provide publishers access to an increased number of data-driven interactive visualizations on a broad range of topics including financial news, sports, entertainment and more. Data visualizations will be available to publishers free of charge through Reuters Open Media Express and to Reuters News Agency customers globally. Reuters will also publish these interactive visualizations within news coverage on Reuters.com.

SEC: $22 Million Whistleblower Award For Company Insider Who Helped Uncover Fraud

Date 30/08/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the award of more than $22 million to a whistleblower whose detailed tip and extensive assistance helped the agency halt a well-hidden fraud at the company where the whistleblower worked.

Toronto's Equity Markets Are The Best Performing In The World So Far In 2016

Date 30/08/2016

State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI): Investor Confidence Drops from 98.0 To 89.7 In August

Date 30/08/2016

State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for August 2016.

LendIt Announces Partnership With Capital One To Co-Host Their Annual Fintech Start-Up Competition - PitchIt @ LendIt To Find Europe's Leading Innovator In Online Lending And Fintech

Date 30/08/2016

LendIt, the largest conference series dedicated to connecting the global online lending community, today announced a partnership with information based lending company Capital One to co-host PitchIt @ LendIt, a competition to find a future star of the fintech world. 

EU Savers Back The Rejection Of The Draft Implementation Rules For The Key Information Document (KID) For Investment Products, But For Different Reasons

Date 30/08/2016

Better Finance, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, supports the proposed resolution by the European Parliament to reject the misleading and overly complex draft implementation rules ("Regulatory Technical Standards" or RTS) of the "PRIIPs" Regulation as designed by the European Supervisory Authorities and approved by the European Commission.

RFA Announces Release Of Secure Multi-Cloud Platform

Date 30/08/2016

RFA (Richard Fleischman and Associates, Inc.) today announced the release of the RFA Multi-Cloud platform, which securely combines public and private cloud services into one managed solution. By extending the safeguards of RFA's singular cyber protection tier, the Multi-Cloud offering enables RFA clients to compliantly integrate cost-effective, highly scalable public cloud solutions into their IT strategy.