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Prime Minister Of The Hellenic Republic, Alexis Tsipras’ Statement During The Joint Press Conference With Chancellor Faymann

Date 17/06/2015

I had the opportunity to meet with Chancellor Faymann today, who is not only a sincere friend of Greece but also a politician with nuanced views regarding Europe’s future. Namely, how Europe can move forward while managing the challenges of the times, and create a promising future for its people.

SEC Charges Investment Adviser And Mutual Fund Board Members With Failures In Advisory Contract Approval Process

Date 17/06/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a mutual fund adviser, its principal, and three mutual fund board members with failing to satisfy their statutory obligations in connection with the evaluation and approval of mutual fund advisory contracts.

Federal Reserve Board And Federal Open Market Committee Release Economic Projections From The June 16-17 FOMC Meeting

Date 17/06/2015

The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants for the June 16-17 meeting.

MGEX Reports Top 25 Electronic Daily Volume Record

Date 17/06/2015

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), recorded the 23rd-highest electronic daily volume in its history on Tuesday, totaling 14,048 electronic contracts traded.

DTCC Issues Proposal To CPMI IOSCO For Global Data Harmonization - Recommends That The Industry Focus On Harmonizing Roughly 30 Credit Derivatives Fields Across Trade Repositories - Fields Deemed Critical To Financial Stability And Systemic Risk Analysis

Date 17/06/2015

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, issued its recommendations on global data harmonization to the CPMI IOSCO Harmonization working group today, detailing a proposed path towards a global data harmonization, with credit derivatives identified as the first step. The approach involves harmonizing approximately 30 data fields across global trade repository providers, essentially creating a global data dictionary; these fields are viewed as critical to financial stability and systemic risk analysis. This recommendation is in alignment with ISDA’s perspectives on data quality, and DTCC believes this approach provides a path forward to promote more active dialogue between CPMI IOSCO and the industry in order to address the existing reporting challenges that have emerged due to the jurisdictional implementation of reporting rules. 

SEC Announces Enforcement Action for Illegal Offering of Security-Based Swaps

Date 17/06/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an enforcement action against a company that illegally offered complex derivatives products to retail investors.

EBA To Hold A Public Hearing On Upcoming Securitisation Report

Date 17/06/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) will hold a public hearing on its draft report on Qualifying Securitisation on Friday 26 June 2015 from 10.00 to 13.00 UK time. 

Bucharest Stock Exchange: Institutional Investors Met Important Romanian Companies At “Romania Investors Days”

Date 17/06/2015

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) organized on June 16 – 17, 2015, the first event of the series “Romania Investors Days” in Bucharest, during which local and international investors and analysts had the opportunity to meet Romanian listed companies.

Deirdre Somers, Chief Executive Of the Irish Stock Exchange, Elected President Of The Federation Of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)

Date 17/06/2015

Deirdre Somers, Chief Executive of the Irish Stock Exchange, was elected as the new President of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) on 17th June 2015 for a term of three years. The election was unanimously approved by the FESE General Assembly at their bi-annual meeting in Oslo today.   

Prime Minister Of The Hellenic Republic, Alexis Tsipras’ Speech In The Parliamentary Group Of SYRIZA

Date 17/06/2015

Comrades,

In a few days, we will have completed five months in government.

Five extremely high-pressure months for all of us. From the onset, we found ourselves facing both an internal and external state of affairs that we were not responsible for creating.