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Date 17/10/2012
Protecting Our Economy Demands Adequate Capital And Margin Requirements For Security-Based Swaps By SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar
One of the most important goals of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act is to reduce the risks posed by large, uncollateralized derivatives positions — not just the risks to the players in the market, but also the risks to the entire financial system, the broader economy, investors, taxpayers, and working men and women. To appreciate the significance of these rules, we only need to remember the desperate effort, and massive taxpayer support, required in 2008 to prevent insurance giant AIG’s huge exposure to credit default swaps from destroying that firm virtually overnight, imposing large losses on counterparties across Wall Street, and potentially triggering further panic and failures.
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Date 17/10/2012
British Bankers’ Association Appoints Sir Nigel Wicks As Chairman
Sir Nigel Wicks, Chairman of Euroclear, is to be the new chairman of the British Bankers' Association.
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Date 17/10/2012
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Adviser And Two Executives With Fraud In Continuing Probe Of Suspicious Fund Performance
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former $1 billion hedge fund advisory firm and two executives with scheming to overvalue assets under management and exaggerate the reported returns of hedge funds they managed in order to hide losses and increase the fees collected from investors.
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Date 17/10/2012
Futures And Options On Chicago Corn Can Be Traded At ROFEX - Today, Futures And Options On Chicago Corn Began Trading At ROFEX- This New Tool Joins The Chicago Soybean Contract Launched At The End Of 2011
ROFEX launched today its new futures and options contract on Chicago Corn, whose characteristics and benefits suit the needs of the different investors of the market.
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Date 17/10/2012
Opening Statement At The SEC Open Meeting By SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro
Good morning. This is an open meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 17, 2012.
Today we will consider proposing new rules that would establish capital, margin, and segregation requirements for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants. We also will consider enhancing the capital requirements for the large broker-dealers that we have approved to use internal models in computing their net capital.
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Date 17/10/2012
BME: One Out Of Four Spanish Listed Companies Generate 75% Of Their Sales Abroad - Foreign Sales Compensate Weaknesses Of Domestic Market
Sales generated by companies listed on the Spanish stock exchange totaled €264 billion in the first half of 2012, up 9.20% on the same period in 2011, according to a report by the Research Department of BME. Sales outside Spain increased 16% to €157.37 billion, representing almost 60% of total sales.
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Date 17/10/2012
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: New Industry Classifications: Tech Industries Recategorized
1. Background With the increase of TASE-listed high-tech companies to almost 140 companies and within the efforts of TASE to position itself as a financial hub for high tech companies, two sectors will be launched: "Technology" and "Biomed", in which all TASE high-tech listed companies will be consolidated. -
Date 17/10/2012
Bloomberg Vault Deploys Local Cloud Service For Global Data Privacy - Bloomberg Local Vault Removes Geographic Barriers To Cloud Adoption By Meeting Diverse Data Privacy Requirements
Global firms facing stringent cross-border data privacy laws can now deploy a cloud-based data archiving and compliance solution locally by leveraging Bloomberg's global infrastructure.
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Date 17/10/2012
NYSE Euronext Announces Expiration And Final Results Of Tender Offer For Up To €250,000,000 Of Its 5.375% Notes Due 2015
On September 14, 2012, NYSE Euronext (NYX) (the “Company”) commenced a cash tender offer (the “Offer”) to purchase up to €250,000,000 of its outstanding 5.375% Notes due 2015 (the “Notes”), as set forth in the Tender Offer Memorandum dated September 14, 2012 (as modified by the Company’s press release dated October 2, 2012 entitled “NYSE Euronext Announces Early Results and Pricing of Tender Offer For up to €250,000,000 of Its 5.375% Notes Due 2015”, the “Tender Offer Memorandum”). The Company has accepted all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn as of 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on October 16, 2012 (the “Expiration Time”).
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Date 17/10/2012
APG And EPEX SPOT Launch Austrian Intraday Market - Important Milestone For Implementing The Pan-European Intraday Target Model Achieved
The Austrian Transmission System Operator, Austrian Power Grid AG (APG), and the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE have jointly launched an Intraday market in Austria on 16 October 2012 and connected it, via an open interface provided by APG, to the Franco-German Intraday markets. Physical and financial settlement of the new Austrian power contracts are provided by Europe’s central clearing house for energy, European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC).
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