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Opening Statement At SEC Open Meeting: PCAOB Proposed Budget And Accounting Support Fee For 2012 By SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro

Date 11/01/2012

Good morning. This is an open meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 11, 2012.

Today, the Commission will consider the proposed 2012 budget and accounting support fee for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which created the PCAOB, the Commission must annually review and approve the Board’s budget and support fee.

CBOE, C2, CFE, And CBSX Trading Schedule For Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Date 11/01/2012

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced the following trading schedules for Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.

BM&FBOVESPA Announces 2011 Market Performance

Date 11/01/2012

• Financial volume and number of transactions in the equity market;
• Total number of contracts traded, DI futures contracts traded and of corn futures contracts and options on corn futures traded in the Derivatives Market;
• Financial volume and number of equity lending transactions.

SIFMA Statement On Final CFTC Business Conduct Standards

Date 11/01/2012

SIFMA today released the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., executive vice president, public policy and advocacy in reaction to the final business conduct standards rules agreed upon by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

Statement Of Support By CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler

Date 11/01/2012

I support the final rules on segregation of customer funds for cleared swaps.  These rules are an important step forward in protecting customers and reducing the risk of swaps trading. 

Athens Exchange Derivatives Market Monthly Statistical Bulletin - December 2011

Date 11/01/2012

Please click here to download the ADEX Monthly Statistical Bulletin for December 2011.

Opening Statement By Chairman Gary Gensler Before A Meeting Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Date 11/01/2012

Good morning.  This meeting will come to order.  This is a public meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to consider final and proposed rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).  I’d like to welcome members of the public, market participants and members of the media, as well as those listening to the meeting on the phone or watching the webcast to our first Commission meeting in 2012.

UK’s Financial Services Authority: Richard Joseph Charged With Insider Dealing

Date 11/01/2012

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has charged Richard Anthony Joseph, with eight counts of insider dealing and two counts of money laundering.

Open Meeting Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Statement By Commissioner Bart Chilton

Date 11/01/2012

My mother used to say sometimes you need to see what things look like when they go really wrong, in order to appreciate how good you had it when things were going right.  Well, we’ve had a few things go really, really wrong in the past couple of months, and it’s made us think about how good we had it.

Powernext Energy Savings: Launch Of The Organised Market For Energy Savings Certificates On 10th January 2012

Date 11/01/2012

Powernext launched the Energy Saving Certificate (in French “Certificats d’Economies d’Energie” or CEE) organised market on 10th January 2012. This launch follows a study made in close cooperation with the market actors since 2009. After a first phase of obligations (2006-2009) where the objective was largely exceeded without any heavy involvement of the market, the much more ambitious second phase (2011-2013) shows a greater development of the activity on the CEE secondary market.