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CFTC Commissioner Pham To Speak At The Harvard Law School Program On International Financial Systems Roundtable On Institutional Investors And Crypto Assets

Date 07/10/2022

Canadian Securities Regulators Developing Framework To Strengthen Ombudsman For Banking Services And Investments

Date 07/10/2022

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is developing a proposal for comment that contemplates providing the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) with the authority to make awards that are binding on firms.

IMF Executive Board Approves US$1.3 Billion In Emergency Financing Support To Ukraine

Date 07/10/2022

• The IMF Executive Board approved the disbursement of US$1.3 billion to Ukraine under the new food shock window of the Rapid Financing Instrument.
• More than seven months after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the humanitarian and economic toll remains massive, resulting in large and urgent fiscal and external financing needs.
• The Ukrainian authorities deserve considerable credit for having maintained an important degree of macro-financial stability in these extremely challenging circumstances.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 07/10/2022

Due to the Federal Holiday on Monday October 10, 2022 the Weekly Swaps Report will be released on Tuesday October 11, 2022

Nadex Refrains From Listing Certain Contracts

Date 07/10/2022

Due to activity in the underlying markets upon which the Nadex contracts are based and pursuant to the authority granted in Nadex Rule 12.1(i), Nadex took the following actions:

CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

Date 07/10/2022

The current reports for the week of October 04, 2022 are now available.

BOX Options: Automated Trade Reporting (“ATR”) Protocol Version A2

Date 07/10/2022

The purpose of this circular is to introduce ATR Protocol Version A2 which contains the following features compared to the previous ATR Versions A0 and A1:

1. Decommission “As-Of” type business messages with alternative replacement 
2. Enhanced Login with password encryption 
3. Expanded Message Sequence Number 
4. New fields in business messages to ensure message uniqueness 
5. New Error management 
6. New Participant messages for post-trade operations

CFTC Financial Data For Futures Commission Merchants Update

Date 07/10/2022

The latest reports for August 2022 are now available.

Nadex Temporarily Amends Binary Contracts Strike Width

Date 07/10/2022

Pursuant to Section 5c(c)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (“Act”), and Section 40.6(d) of the regulations promulgated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “Commission”) under the Act (the “Regulations”), North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (“Nadex”, the “Exchange”) hereby provides notice that due to increased or decreased volatility, as the case may be, in the underlying markets upon which the Nadex contracts are based, Nadex made changes to the strike widths of various contracts during the week of October 3, 2022 as indicated in the Weekly Notice.

SEC Reopens Comment Periods for Several Rulemaking Releases Due to Technological Error in Receiving Certain Comments

Date 07/10/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today reopened the public comment periods for 11 Commission rulemaking releases and one request for comment due to a technological error that resulted in a number of public comments submitted through the Commission’s internet comment form not being received by the Commission. The majority of the affected comments were submitted in August 2022; however, the technological error is known to have occurred as early as June 2021.