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Event Driven Strategies Gain, Lead HFRI In August As Equities Fall

Date 08/09/2023

• Credit-sensitive Event Driven, Relative Value Arbitrage advance as rates rise;
• Merger Arb, Multi-Strategy funds lead sub-strategies

CFTC Commissioner Johnson To Provide Keynote Address And Participate On Panel At The World Federation Of Exchanges Annual Meeting

Date 08/09/2023

CFTC Commissioner Johnson To Participate On A DeFi Panel At The EuroFi Financial Forum

Date 08/09/2023

WHAT:Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson will participate in the DeFi Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Implications session at the EuroFi: Financial Forum in Santiago de Compostela, SpainWHEN:

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

5:10 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (CEST)

11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (EDT)

WHERE:

OCA Puerta del Camino Hotel

Calle Miguel Ferro Caaveiro,

s/n, Santiago de Compostela, La Coruna, 15707

Additional information: https://www.eurofi.net/events/

SEC Charges Privately Held Monolith Resources For Using Separation Agreements That Violated Whistleblower Protection Rules

Date 08/09/2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Monolith Resources LLC, a privately held energy and technology company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, for using employee separation agreements that violated the SEC’s whistleblower protection rules.

Nigerian Exchange Weekly Market Report For September 8th, 2023

Date 08/09/2023

A total turnover of 2.644 billion shares worth N45.450 billion in 44,189 deals was traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange, in contrast to a total of 2.510 billion shares valued at N32.816 billion that exchanged hands last week in 40,736 deals.

Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero: Arming Crypto Customers With Free Tools To Protect Themselves From Becoming A Victim - Statement In Support Of CFTC v. Jacob Orvidas

Date 08/09/2023

At the CFTC, we protect you the customer by bringing actions to enforce the law, but we cannot catch every illegal act in the crypto space.  Even when we do, it may be too late to get your money or crypto back.

CFTC Orders Utah Man To Pay More Than $2.5 Million For Leveraged Bitcoin Fraud And Failure To Register

Date 08/09/2023

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order today simultaneously filing and settling charges against Jacob Orvidas. The order finds Orvidas fraudulently solicited at least four people (pool participants) to trade leveraged bitcoin in a commodity pool, lost almost all funds trading, and then lied to pool participants about the losses and the availability of their money. The order also finds Orvidas failed to register as a commodity pool operator. 

Nodal Exchange Achieves New Records In Power Futures (Up 61%) & Environmental Futures (Up 92%)

Date 08/09/2023

Nodal Exchange announced new trading records in power and environmental futures in August 2023.  In power, Nodal set a calendar month record for August with 168 million MWh of traded power futures volume in the month, up 61% from the prior year. Nodal continues to be the market leader in North American power futures having the majority of the open interest with over 1.2 billion MWh.

BIS - gingado: A Machine Learning Library Focused On Economics And Finance

Date 08/09/2023

Machine learning (ML) has tremendous potential benefits for economic research and practice, but only trial and error reveal the best choice from a wide variety of algorithms and model parameters.

MIAX Options Exchange - Update: Interface Specifications For FOI, FXD, CTD, MEI And ToM

Date 08/09/2023

As previously announced in the August 17, 2023 Alert, the MIAX Options Exchange Interface specifications have been updated for the following changes: