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Dalian Commodity Exchange: Notice On Charging 2012 Membership Fees

Date 03/04/2012

According to Bylaws of Dalian Commodity Exchange and Measures for Membership Management of Dalian Commodity Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange will charge members annual fees directly from settlement reserve account in March 30, 2012. So please do deposit relevant funds in your account. Fee charging for futures firms is 20,000RMB per year, and for non-futures firms is 10,000RMB per year.
CalPERS Director Of Corporate Governance Elected To Board Of Institutional Investor Group

Date 03/04/2012

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced that Anne Simpson, CalPERS Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments and Director of Corporate Governance, has been elected to the Board of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII).
SEC Sues Two Executives In Texas To Recover Bonuses and Stock Profits Received During Accounting Fraud

Date 03/04/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today sued two former executives at an Austin, Texas-based surgical products manufacturer to recover bonus compensation and stock sale profits they received during an accounting fraud at the company.
Express Scripts Inc. To Join The Global Dow - Dow Jones Health Care Titans 30 Index Adds Celgene Corp.

Date 02/04/2012

Express Scripts, Inc., the St. Louis-based provider of integrated pharmacy benefit-management services, will be added to The Global Dow, Dow Jones Indexes announced today.
CBOE Holdings Reports March 2012 Trading Volume - CBOE Futures Exchange Posts Busiest Month In History

Date 02/04/2012

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today reported that March trading volume for options on theChicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), combined, totaled 106.65 million contracts. March's average daily volume (ADV) was 4.85 million contracts, even with March 2011 ADV and down five percent from February 2012 ADV of 5.08 million contracts. Futures trading on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), home of CBOE Volatility Index futures, set a new all-time monthly volume record of nearly two million contracts in March.

March Is Record Setting Month At CBOE Futures Exchange - Volume Of Nearly Two Million Contracts Is New All-Time High, Numerous Trading Records Set During Month

Date 02/04/2012

The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) today announced that March 2012 was the most-active trading month in CFE history as volume totaled 1,971,632 contracts, an increase of 85 percent from the 1,066,367 contracts traded in March 2011. Average daily volume (ADV) at CFE during March 2012 reached a new all-time high of 89,620 contracts, a gain of 93 percent from the 46,363 contracts traded per day a year ago. March's record trading volume surpassed the previous high of 1,828,511 contracts traded in August 2011.
CFTC Issues Order Prohibiting North American Derivatives Exchange’s Political Event Derivatives Contracts

Date 02/04/2012

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order pursuant to Section 5c(c)(5)(C)(ii) of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC Regulation 40.11(a)(1), prohibiting the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) from listing or making available for clearing or trading a set of self-certified political event derivatives contracts. The contracts are binary option contracts that pay out based upon the results of various U.S federal elections to be held in 2012.
KCBT HRW Wheat Futures & Options Open Interest Increases Over Last Month

Date 02/04/2012

The Kansas City Board of Trade during the month of March saw open interest in the Hard Red Winter Wheat futures contract, the wheat options and the exchange as a whole increase over open interest at the end of February.
Federal Reserve Seeks Comment On Proposed Rulemaking To Establish Requirements For Determining Whether A Company Is Predominantly Engaged In Financial Activities

Date 02/04/2012

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday requested comment on a proposed amendment to the Board's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) issued February 11, 2011, to establish requirements for determining whether a company is "predominantly engaged in financial activities."
CFTC Charges Royal Bank Of Canada With Multi-Hundred Million Dollar Wash Sale Scheme - CFTC Also Charges That Bank Concealed Material Information From, And Made Material False Statements To, A Futures Exchange

Date 02/04/2012

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a complaint in federal district court in New York charging the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian bank and financial services firm doing business in New York, with conducting a multi-hundred million dollar wash sale scheme in connection with exchange-traded stock futures contracts. The CFTC’s complaint also alleges that RBC willfully concealed, and made false statements concerning, material aspects of its wash sale scheme from OneChicago, LLC (OneChicago), an electronic futures exchange, and CME Group, Inc. (CME Group), the entity that exercised the regulatory compliance function for OneChicago.