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"Space Between Walls" - Speech By CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton To The Finance, Credit And International Business Association International Credit Executives Conference, Chicago, IL

Date 03/05/2012

Introduction

Thanks to Rick Hayes for that great introduction. Aside from Russian roulette, having a fraternity brother introduce you must be one of the riskiest things that can be done. It really is wonderful to be with you this morning and be in my favorite city in the world: Chicago. I grew up in a lakefront neighborhood. On clear nights, you could see the Chicago skyline. I did not know, nor would have cared at the time, about the tremendous revolution, innovation and economic transformation of financial markets that was taking place in Chicago back then.

Program Trading Averaged 27.9 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Apr. 23-27

Date 03/05/2012

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms' executed volume from NYSE's orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Apr. 23-27.

MGEX Announces Expanded Trading Hours

Date 03/05/2012

MGEX,  a  Designated  Contract  Market   and   Derivatives  Clearing Organization, today  announced expanded trading  hours  for  all  futures and  options contracts, including its  Hard  Red Spring  Wheat  (HRSW) contract, beginning Sunday, May 20, 2012 for trade  date May 21, 2012. Market  participants will now have the ability to manage  price risk  using  the Exchange’s flagship contract for 22 hours  per  trading day Monday through Friday and 23 hours per trading day Sunday to Monday.

ISE Introduces Implied Order Functionality - First U.S. Options Exchange To Offer This Sophisticated Technology For Multi-Legged Orders

Date 03/05/2012

The International Securities Exchange (ISE) announced today that it has introduced Implied Order functionality. With Implied Orders, ISE will significantly enhance the execution of multi-legged strategy orders by enabling greater interaction of the complex order book with the regular order book. The result will be an increased fill rate for multi-legged strategy orders as well as tighter spreads and increased liquidity on the regular order book.

CME Group Adds Ethanol To Expanded CBOT Grain And Oilseed Trading Hours On CME Globex - Expanded Hours to be Effective Monday, May 21 On CME Globex

Date 03/05/2012

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it will expand electronic trading hours for its CBOT Denatured Fuel Ethanol futures and options on CME Globex in line with recently announced plans to expand CBOT grain and oilseed trading hours. Pending CFTC certification, CME Group customers will have expanded market access to a variety of CBOT futures and options on CME Globex 22 hours per day.

CFTC Charges Utah Residents Christopher Hales, Eric Richardson And Their Company, Bentley Equities, LLC, With Fraud And Misappropriation - CFTC Seeks An Emergency Restraining Order Freezing Defendants’ Assets

Date 03/05/2012

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a federal court action in Utah charging Bentley Equities, LLC (Bentley), a Delaware corporation, and its principals, Christopher D. Hales and Eric A. Richardson, with fraud and misappropriation in connection with commodity futures trading. Richardson resides in Cedar Hills, Utah, and Hales is currently an inmate at the Florence, Colo., Federal Correction Complex. None of the defendants has ever been registered with the CFTC.

Results Of The Annual General Meeting Of UBS AG

Date 03/05/2012

UBS AG shareholders re-elected the existing members of the Board of Directors proposed for re-election and also elected Isabelle Romy, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Axel A. Weber to the Board for the first time at the Annual General Meeting on May 3, 2012. Following the meeting, the Board of Directors appointed Axel A. Weber its Chairman, as was its intention in the event of his election.

Introductory Statement To The Press Conference - Mario Draghi, President Of The ECB, Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President Of The ECB,, Barcelona, 3 May 2012

Date 03/05/2012

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. I would like to thank Governor Fernández Ordóñez for his kind hospitality and express our special gratitude to his staff for the excellent organisation of today’s meeting of the Governing Council. We will now report on the outcome of today’s meeting of the Governing Council, which was also attended by the Commission Vice-President, Mr Rehn.

CFTC Charges Illinois Resident Dimitry Vishnevetsky And His Company, Oxford Capital, LLC, With Commodity Pool Fraud - Federal Court Enters Emergency Order Freezing Defendants’

Date 03/05/2012

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that on May 1, 2012, the Honorable Ruben Castillo, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, entered an order freezing the assets of defendants Dimitry Vishnevetsky of Chicago, Ill., and his company, Oxford Capital, LLC (OCL), a defunct Wisconsin limited liability company. The court’s order also prohibits the destruction of books and records.

Speech By SEC Staff: Address At The Private Equity International Private Fund Compliance Forum By Carlo V. di Florio, Director, Office Of Compliance Inspections And Examinations, U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission

Date 03/05/2012

Q1. Thanks for being with us Carlo. As everyone here is aware, the deadline has now passed for advisers to large private equity firms to register with the SEC. Can you discuss what the agency is doing to prepare for the nearly 4000 private fund advisers that are registered with the Commission?

Let me begin by thanking you for inviting me to speak to you today on important topics of concern to private equity fund advisers, many of whom are newly registered with the Commission as required under the Dodd-Frank Act. We in the National Examination Program (“NEP”) have shared objectives when it comes to protecting investors, market integrity and capital formation. Many of you have been charged by your firms with bolstering their compliance functions to prepare for registration with the Commission. I salute you for the important work that you are undertaking to promote good risk management, compliance and ethics in the private equity fund sector. My door is always open and I welcome the dialogue and collaboration as we work together to prevent fraud, improve compliance, monitor risk and inform policy. As you know, the views that I express here today are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission or of my colleagues on the staff of the Commission.