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SGX Welcomes BlackGold Natural Resources To Catalist

Date 12/03/2015

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed BlackGold Natural Resources Limited, formerly known as NH Ceramics Ltd, to Catalist under the stock code “41H”.  

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority Warns Firm Under Anti-Money Laundering And Countering Financing Of Terrorism Act

Date 12/03/2015

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a formal warning to MSL Capital Markets Limited - FSP225586 (MSL) under section 80 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (the Act).

ASIC Publishes Ninth Market Supervision Report

Date 12/03/2015

ASIC today published its ninth report on the supervision and surveillance of Australian financial markets and market participants.

RBS Trader Admits Defrauding Customers In Multimillion Dollar Securities Fraud Scheme

Date 12/03/2015

U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly of the District of Connecticut, Special Inspector General Christy Romero for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) and Special Agent in Charge Patricia M. Ferrick of the FBI’s New Haven Division announced that Matthew Katke, 34, of New York City, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to participating in a multimillion securities fraud scheme.  Katke also entered into an agreement to cooperate in the government’s ongoing investigation.

Financial Stability Oversight Council Meeting March 11, 2015

Date 11/03/2015

Secretary Lew today convened a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (Council) in an executive session at the Treasury Department.

Federal Reserve Releases Results Of Comprehensive Capital Analysis And Review (CCAR)

Date 11/03/2015

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced it has not objected to the capital plans of 28 bank holding companies participating in the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). One institution received a conditional non-objection based on qualitative grounds, and the Federal Reserve objected to two firms' plans on qualitative grounds.

CBOE To Launch MSCI Index Options On April 21

Date 11/03/2015

• MSCI EEM, EAFE Indexes First of Six Planned to Launch in 2015
• In U.S., MSCI Index Options to be Solely Listed on CBOE

Moscow Exchange: Exclusion NCSP Shares (NMTP) From NCC's Clearing List

Date 11/03/2015

PJSC "NCSP" ordinary shares (NMTP) excluded from the MICEX Index from March 17, 2015. According to the Bank of Russia's instruction 2919-Y "On the evaluation of quality of a credit organisation performing central-counterparty functions", NCSP ords are to be removed from the NCC"s list of assets eligible as collateral. NCSP ords (NMTP) will be traded with full prefunding from March 17, 2015.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 11/03/2015

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

BOX Options Exchange Price Improvement Activity For February

Date 11/03/2015

In the month of February, price improved contracts on BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) averaged 274,711 per day, which represented a 160% increase over the same period last year.  Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via BOX’s price improvement auction, PIP, averaged $799,411 per day, while total savings to investors this month was$15.1M. With this, BOX has saved investors over $601M since its inception in 2004.  Overall average daily trading volume on BOX in the month of February was 413,707 contracts, which represented a 33% increase over the same period last year.