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MIAX Options Exchange - August 1, 2019 Fee Changes

Date 31/07/2019

Effective August 1, 2019, pending SEC approval, the MIAX Options Fee Schedule will be amended.  

US Department Of Justice Begins Fourth Distribution Of Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture To Compensate Victims Of Bernard Madoff Fraud Scheme - Largest Payment Of Forfeited Funds In The History Of The Department Of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program

Date 31/07/2019

The Department of Justice today announced that on July 31, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its fourth distribution of $469.6 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the total distributed to $2.4 billion to nearly 32,000 victims worldwide.  In this distribution, payments will be sent to over 25,000 victims across the globe, bringing their total recovery to 66.85 percent.  This distribution represents the fourth in a series of payments that will eventually return over $4 billion to victims as compensation for losses they suffered from the collapse of the BLMIS.  The MVF has received over 65,000 petitions from victims in 136 countries.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 31/07/2019

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.

Bloomberg Selected As Fallback Adjustment Vendor

Date 31/07/2019

ISDA today announced that Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL) has been selected to calculate and publish adjustments related to fallbacks that ISDA intends to implement for certain interest rate benchmarks in its 2006 ISDA Definitions.

SIFMA Statement On Debt Limit Suspension Vote

Date 31/07/2019

SIFMA today released the following statement from SIFMA president and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., expressing strong support for Senate passage of a bill to suspend the debt limit through July 2021. The House passed the legislation on July 18.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Europe Dashboard

Date 31/07/2019

• Accompanied by the drum of earnings beats, European equities ended July with modest gains. Contrasting with corporate profits, the International Monetary Fund reduced its global growth forecast, while the European Central Bank hinted at future stimulus and called for additional fiscal support. 
• The S&P Europe 350® gained on the month, led up by the Consumer Staples and Health Care Sectors, while the Materials Sector struggled. 
• Boris Johnson began his term as U.K. Prime Minister with demands for a renegotiation of the E.U. withdrawal agreement, issuing a threat to otherwise leave without one. The pound sterling swooned, pushing it down near its lowest in two years. On the other side of the negotiating table, Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the first female president of the European Commission.  

Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement

Date 31/07/2019

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that the labor market remains strong and that economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate. Job gains have been solid, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Although growth of household spending has picked up from earlier in the year, growth of business fixed investment has been soft. On a 12-month basis, overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy are running below 2 percent. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed.

Remarks Of CFTC Commissioner Dan M. Berkovitz Before The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Denver, Colorado - Improving Price Discovery For Commercial Hedging

Date 31/07/2019

Thank you for that kind introduction.  I also want to thank Darryl Blakey and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) for arranging this opportunity to speak to you and to visit beef production facilities here in Colorado.

NSE Indices Index Dashboard For The Month Ended July 2019

Date 31/07/2019

Click here to download NSE Indices Index Dashboard for the month ended July 2019.

EBA Launches Consultation On The Methodology To Determine The Weighted Average Maturity Of Contractual Payments Due Under The Tranche Of A Securitisation Transaction

Date 31/07/2019

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Guidelines (GLs) on the determination of the weighted average maturity (WAM) of the contractual payments due under the tranche, as per the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) Article 257(1) (a). These draft GLs  aim at ensuring that the methodology applicable for the determination of the WAM for regulatory purposes is sufficiently harmonised in order to increase consistency and comparability in the own funds held by institutions.