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ESMA: Call For Candidates For The Commodity Derivatives Consultative Working Group

Date 10/06/2014

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is looking to newly constitute a Consultative Working Group (CWG) for the ESMA Commodity Derivatives Task Force (CDTF) as the two-year-term of the existing CWG has recently expired. ESMA is therefore calling for expressions of interest from stakeholders to become a member of the CWG by 06 July 2014.

The Technology Challenge - Speech By Martin Wheatley, CEO, The UK Financial Conduct Authority, At Lansons, London.

Date 10/06/2014

Thank you. It’s a great pleasure to join everyone this afternoon and my thanks to Lansons for inviting me back.

Last year, I set out some of our key ambitions for the year – particularly around the importance of promoting good conduct in the financial sector, and its link to priority issues like trust and confidence.

The industry has responded positively I think. Most firms have change programmes in place, and we’ve seen welcome steps in areas like incentives and interest-only mortgages.

TEXPERS Salutes El Paso Firemen And Policemen’s Pension Fund

Date 10/06/2014

The El Paso Firemen and Policemen’s Pension Fund ranked among Texas’ top-three pensions plans in a closely watched measure of average yearly returns over  long-term  investing  horizons,  according  to the Texas  Association  of Public  Employee Retirement Systems (TEXPERS) in a recently released report.

CFTC Chairman Massad Announces The Appointment Of Aitan Goelman As Director Of Enforcement

Date 10/06/2014

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Timothy Massad today named Aitan Goelman as the agency’s Director of the Division of Enforcement. Mr. Goelman is a former federal prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience litigating both criminal and civil matters.

Bank Of England Launches New Framework To Test For Cyber Vulnerabilities

Date 10/06/2014

​In a speech today at the British Bankers’ Association, Andrew Gracie, Executive Director, Resolution at the Bank of England, formally launched a new framework to help identify areas where the financial sector could be vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attack. This is part of the Bank of England’s response to the Financial Policy Committee’s recommendation to test and improve resilience to cyber-attack.

Des Peck Joins Object Trading As New Business Sales Executive In Europe - Former Product Executive Will Help Grow The Company Across European And Asian Markets

Date 10/06/2014

Object Trading, an independent provider of global direct market access (DMA), today announced the appointment of Des Peck as New Business Sales Executive in Europe. Mr. Peck will be responsible for leading Object Trading’s sales and business development initiatives. He will join Object Trading’s London office and report to Gerry Turner, Executive Director of Object Trading. 

ESMA Chair, Steven Maijoor, Delivers Keynote Speech At IBA 25th Annual Conference On The Globalisation Of Investment Funds In Paris

Date 10/06/2014

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am delighted to have been invited by the International Bar Association (IBA) to speak at this conference. It is a pleasure for me to be with you today and to share with you few of our thoughts on asset management and financial stability in the EU. In addition, I will give an update on current policy developments.

Morningstar Provides Equity And Corporate Credit Research And Ratings On Bloomberg

Date 10/06/2014

Equity and corporate credit research and ratings from Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN) are now available through the Bloomberg Professional service, a leading financial information system that provides data, news, and analytics to more than 320,000 business and financial professionals.

Eurex Clearing Launches Cross-Margining Functionality

Date 10/06/2014

• First CCP in Europe to offer margin offsetting within asset classes and across OTC and listed derivatives
• Entire euro-denominated yield curve covered for the first time in a portfolio margining approach

ACER Annual Conference: Implementing REMIT Can Save Millions Of Euros To EU Consumers

Date 10/06/2014

“As EU energy markets continue to integrate, it is important that customers can be confident that the prices they pay are not unduly distorted, but that they reflect the proper interplay of demand and supply” said EU Energy CommissionerGünther Oettinger in his address to the Annual Conference of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), held today in Ljubljana. This is the aim of REMIT, the EU Regulation on wholesale energy markets integrity and transparency, which establishes a new, unprecedented, sector-specific market monitoring framework to detect and prevent market abuse in European wholesale energy markets, where energy should be traded according to the highest transparency and integrity standards. The experience of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) – ACER’s counterpart in the United States when it comes to market monitoring – can give an idea of the kind of return which could be achievable from investing in REMIT. In 2013 FERC concluded several market abuse investigations, including two high-profile cases which resulted in unjust profits in the order of US$ 160 million being identified.