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  • CalPERS Joins Global Sustainability Benchmark For Real Assets Program - GRESB Is An Important Tool In CalPERS' ESG Efforts

    Date 11/11/2016

    The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced external real estate managers within the Fund's Real Assets Program will begin reporting into GRESB, formerly the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, in 2017. GRESB assesses the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of real assets investments including real estate portfolios and infrastructure assets and funds.

  • Office of Financial Research Update: "Do Higher Capital Standards Always Reduce Bank Risk?"

    Date 11/11/2016

    The OFR released a working paper today entitled, "Do Higher Capital Standards Always Reduce Bank Risk? The Impact of the Basel Leverage Ratio on the U.S. Triparty Repo Market.” This paper examines how risk-taking in the repurchase agreement, or repo, market changed after regulators introduced the supplementary leverage ratio for banks. The paper finds that broker-dealers owned by U.S. bank holding companies now borrow less in the repo market overall after the change, but a larger percentage of the borrowing is backed by more risky collateral.

  • CME Group CEO Phupinder Gill Announces Retirement - Board Expands Role Of Terry Duffy To Chairman And CEO - Appoints Bryan Durkin As President

    Date 11/11/2016

    CME Group today announced that its Chief Executive Officer Phupinder Gill has informed the Company's Board of Directors that he is retiring from the organization and Board, at year end, December 31, 2016.  At the Board's request, Terry Duffy has assumed the expanded role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  Bryan Durkin, who is currently Chief Commercial Officer, has been named President of CME Group. 

  • SEC: Firm Charged With Misleading Investors About Binary Options Profitability

    Date 10/11/2016

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that an Israeli-based firm must pay more than $1.7 million for misleading investors into trading binary options over the internet, and the agency warned that other firms may be out there actively trying to do the same thing.

  • FINRA Names Stephen M. Cutler To Board Of Governors

    Date 10/11/2016

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has named a new Large-Firm Governor – Stephen M. Cutler, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. – to its Board of Governors. Cutler was appointed to complete the term of former Governor Gregory Fleming, who resigned his board seat earlier this year.