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DTCC Testifies In Support Of Legislation To Ensure Continued Transparency Into The OTC Derivatives Market - Indemnification Provisions Could Impede Regulators’ Ability to Monitor Systemic Risk

Date 14/03/2013

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today expressed support for legislation that would resolve issues surrounding the indemnification provisions and confidentiality requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act to ensure regulators continue to have access to a global set of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives data for systemic risk oversight and mitigation purposes.
Federal Reserve Announces Results Of Comprehensive Capital Analysis And Review (CCAR)

Date 14/03/2013

The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced it has approved the capital plans of 14 financial institutions in the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). Two other institutions received conditional approval, while the Federal Reserve objected to the plans of two firms.
Burton-Taylor Report Shows 2012 Market Data Spend Slowed To 2.34%, But Pricing, Reference & Valuation Data Demand Stayed Strong - Burton-Taylor Data Indicates Bloomberg Retained Overall Global Revenue Lead; Commodities & Energy Data Showed Highest Growth; Risk & Compliance Users Produced Greatest Demand

Date 14/03/2013

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a recognized leader in information industry market research, strategy and business consulting, is pleased to announce the publication of their new report indicating the 2012 global spend for market data and analysis was up 2.34% versus 2011, to reach US$25.53 billion. This is the first time market data/analysis spend has topped US$25b, although much of the 2012 growth may be attributed to vendor price increases. Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters were the overall market share leaders with 30.82% and 29.48% respectively, while Interactive Data Corporation held the market share lead in the fastest growing segment (Pricing, Reference & Valuation Data).
CFTC: Federal Court Orders Colorado Man Nicholas Trimble And His Two Companies, Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis, Inc. And Beekeepers Fund Capital Management, LLC, To Pay More Than $3.5 Million In Foreign Currency Fraud Action

Date 14/03/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it obtained federal court orders for more than $3.5 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties against Nicholas Trimble and his companies, Capstone FX Quantitative Analysis, Inc. (Capstone) and Beekeepers Fund Capital Management, LLC (Beekeepers), all of Denver, Colo., resolving the CFTC’s November 7, 2011, Complaint charging Trimble and the two companies with commodity pool and managed account fraud (see CFTC Press Release 6136-11 , November 9, 2011).
CME Group Announces Open Interest In NYMEX Brent (BZ) Crude Oil Futures Surpasses 50,000 Contracts

Date 14/03/2013

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it reached a record in open interest for its NYMEX Brent (BZ) crude oil futures contract yesterday, March 13, 2013. Open Interest for NYMEX Brent reached 51,642 contracts, compared to 49,305 onFebruary 28, 2013, the last record for this contract. Trading volume for this contract is also at record highs, with average daily volume for March at 28,846 contracts.

CFTC Revokes Registration Of Growth Capital Management LLC

Date 14/03/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the revocation of the registration of Growth Capital Management LLC (GCM) located in Rockwall, Texas. GCM had been registered with the CFTC as Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor.
ISE Statement On Patent Infringement Case

Date 14/03/2013

In the case of International Securities Exchange, LLC (ISE) v. Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. (CBOE), case no. 07C623, presiding Judge Joan H. Lefkow has issued a series of pre-trial rulings in CBOE's favor, thus forcing ISE to cease pursuit of the case in the United State District Court, Northern District of Illinois, at the present time.
CBOE Wins In ISE Patent Suit

Date 14/03/2013

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that the federal court in Chicago ended the trial on the International Securities Exchange's (ISE) patent suit. ISE had sued CBOE for alleged infringement of ISE's patent relating to an "automated exchange." By its action, ISE now concedes that CBOE does not infringe ISE's patent, based on several recent decisions in CBOE's favor.
CFTC Sues Michael Alcocer And His Company, Inovatrade, Inc., For Foreign Currency Fraud And Misappropriation - Defendants Allegedly Solicited Over $10.6 Million From More Than 400 Customers Worldwide

Date 14/03/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Michael Alcocer and his company InovaTrade, Inc. (InovaTrade). The CFTC complaint alleges that Alcocer and InovaTrade orchestrated a fraudulent scheme that, between November 2008 and September 2011, induced more than 400 customers to deposit more than $10.6 million with InovaTrade, a purported Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED), to trade off-exchange foreign currency (forex). The CFTC’s complaint was filed on September 21, 2012, and the CFTC recently served its lawsuit upon defendants in Panama.
ADEX Monthly Statistical Bulletin - February 2013

Date 14/03/2013

Please click here to download ADEX monthly statistical bulletin for February 2013.