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  • Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement

    Date 02/11/2016

    Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and growth of economic activity has picked up from the modest pace seen in the first half of this year. Although the unemployment rate is little changed in recent months, job gains have been solid. Household spending has been rising moderately but business fixed investment has remained soft. Inflation has increased somewhat since earlier this year but is still below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and in prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation have moved up but remain low; most survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance, in recent months.

  • CFTC And Canadian Authority Sign Counterpart To Memorandum Of Understanding To Enhance Supervision Of Cross-Border Regulated Entities

    Date 02/11/2016

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad signed a Counterpart to a 2014 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with John O’Brien, Superintendent of Securities for Newfoundland and Labrador (SNL), and Patricia Hearn, Deputy Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs. The MOU relates to cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate on a cross-border basis in the United States and in Canada.

  • "Making The Case For Smarter Regulation Of Centrally Cleared Markets" By Craig Donohue, OCC Executive Chairman And CEO

    Date 02/11/2016

    Centrally cleared, exchanged-traded derivatives markets have flourished over the last several decades. Under substantial regulation at all critical points in the ecosystem, (i.e. brokers, clearing members, exchanges and central counterparties (CCPs)), these markets proved to be resilient during the 2008 financial crisis. The regulatory regime for these markets included requirements respecting record-keeping, price reporting and transparency, and intermediated access to centralized counterparties such as OCC. Providing robust, independent risk management of financial transactions under the comprehensive regulatory oversight of and examination by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), OCC has served as the foundation for secure markets in the U.S. listed equity options markets since 1973.

  • FINRA Fines Eight Firms A Total Of $6.2 Million For Supervisory Failures Related To Variable Annuity L-Shares - Five Firms Ordered To Pay More Than $6 Million To Customers

    Date 02/11/2016

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined eight firms, including VOYA Financial Advisors, five broker-dealer subsidiaries of Cetera Financial Group, Kestra Investment Services, LLC, and FTB Advisors, Inc., a total of $6.2 million for failing to supervise sales of variable annuities (VAs). FINRA also ordered five of the firms to pay more than $6 million to customers who purchased L-share variable annuities with potentially incompatible, complex and expensive long-term minimum-income and withdrawal riders. 

  • CFTC’s Market Risk Advisory Committee To Meet On November 17, 2016

    Date 02/11/2016

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) will hold a public meeting on November 17, 2016 at the CFTC's Washington, DC, headquarters.

  • Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes In October 2016

    Date 02/11/2016

    Moscow Exchange (ticker: MOEX) announces trading volumes for October 2016. Total trading volumes increased by 5.5% YoY to RUB 70.8 trln.

  • TMX Group Introduces Four Letter Trading Symbols

    Date 02/11/2016

    • Canada's Markets lead industry efforts to align ticker symbol conventions with U.S.

  • Nasdaq Welcomes GDS Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: GDS) To The Nasdaq Stock Market

    Date 02/11/2016

    GDS Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq:GDS), a leading developer and operator of high-performance data centers in China, visited the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square today in celebration of its initial public offering (IPO) on The Nasdaq Stock Market. This is the sixth China-based company to list on Nasdaq in 2016.

  • BME Traded €44 Billion In Equities In October, Up 3% From September

    Date 02/11/2016

    • From January-October the effective trading volume totaled €557.4 billion
    • The number of trades to the end of October reached 45.5 million
    • ETF trading to the end of October stood at €5 billion
    • The trading volume in derivatives in October was up 17% on the year
    • The volume of Medium and Long Term issues on the Corporate Debt market in October was up 16% year-on-year and the volume of issues on MARF trebbled

  • LCH To Launch LCH SwapAgent, A Centralised Service For The Non-Cleared Derivatives Market

    Date 02/11/2016

    • LCH SwapAgent will provide centralised trade processing, valuation, margining, risk calculation and optimisation services for the OTC bilateral rates & FX markets
    • Service is designed to facilitate the standardisation and streamlining of bilateral OTC market infrastructure and end to end workflow and processing
    • 11 dealers confirm support  
    • Complements LCH’s strong track record in serving cleared OTC markets
    • Expected to go-live in H1 2017, subject to necessary approvals