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Seed Commodities Exchange To Launch In Partnership With GMEX - Delivering Innovation In Agricultural Derivative Contracts To Address New Market Risks

Date 17/02/2016

GMEX Group today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Seed Commodities Exchange (Seed CX) based in Chicago. GMEX Technologies (GMEX Tech) will provide its sophisticated technological exchange trading system and market surveillance solutions. As part of the agreement GMEX Tech has also taken an option to acquire a 20% equity stake in Seed CX.
Euronext Publishes Full Year 2015 Results

Date 17/02/2016

Today Euronext announced its results for the full year of 2015.
Seed Commodities Exchange Announces Plans To Launch Industrial Hemp Derivative Contracts

Date 17/02/2016

Seed CX has constructed the first industrial hemp derivative contracts, which will be traded on its platform, subject to regulatory approval by the CFTC. Mr. Woodford notes that “We are focused on risk mitigation tools for the industry including crop insurance and derivatives hedging capabilities. One of the key steps to this process is helping to create an active cash market and generate economic research.” The contracts were developed in conjunction with research conducted at Harvard Law School, assisted by faculty at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Co-Founder and CEO, Edward Woodford commented, “We are excited to have developed the world’s first industrial hemp derivative. We have worked closely with hemp farmers and processors throughout the US, who want access to important hedging tools to protect this growing agricultural commodity.” Active on a number of national and state hemp business associations, the Seed CX founders have played an important role in the development of the national hemp industry.
SGX Welcomes Wing Fung Futures As Derivatives Trading Member

Date 17/02/2016

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Hong Kong-based Wing Fung Futures Limited (Wing Fung Futures) to its derivatives market.
Dalian Commodity Exchange: Accelerating Transformation To A Diversified, Open Comprehensive Derivatives Exchange

Date 17/02/2016

Recently, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) held the 2015 annual work summing-up meeting. The meeting suggested that in 2016 the DCE will develop by closely centering on serving the real economy, vigorously advance the integrated development of all businesses on the basis of maintaining the safe and sound operation of the market, and accelerate the transformation toward a diversified and open comprehensive derivatives exchange.

Canadian Securities Regulators Seek Comment On Proposed Amendments To Derivatives Trade Reporting Rules

Date 16/02/2016

Securities regulators in Alberta, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Yukon (the participating jurisdictions) today published for comment proposed amendments to Multilateral Instrument 96-101 Trade Repositories and Derivatives Data Reporting and its companion policy (MI 96-101) for a 60-day comment period. The British Columbia Securities Commission anticipates publishing for comment identical proposed amendments in the coming weeks.
Treasury International Capital Data For December

Date 16/02/2016

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for December 2015. The next release, which will report on data for January 2016, is scheduled for March 15, 2016.
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman Announces Conviction And Sentencing Of Albany Broker For Running Decade-Long, $5 Million Ponzi Scheme - Frederick E. Monroe, Jr., Former Senior Vice President Of Capital Financial Planning, LLC, Sentenced To 5 1/3-16 Years In Prison For Stealing Over $5 Million From Investors - Schneiderman: From The Biggest Financial Institutions To Individual Investment Brokers, My Office Will Continue To Aggressively Investigate And Prosecute Complex Financial Crimes And Securities Fraud

Date 16/02/2016

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the conviction and sentencing of Frederick E. Monroe, Jr., 59, of Queensbury, New York, for stealing over $5 million from investors by fraudulently soliciting them to reinvest their retirement monies. In December 2015, Monroe pleaded guilty in Albany County Court to Scheme to Defraud, Grand Larceny, Money Laundering and Securities Fraud for luring clients with whom he had established relationships with over his 20-year career as a financial planner, and then diverting their monies for his own personal use, as well as to pay back earlier investors he had defrauded. Monroe was sentenced today to 5 1/3-16 years in prison.
ESMA Updates EMIR Q&A

Date 16/02/2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today issued an update of its Question and Answers (Q&As) regarding the implementation of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
SEC: Tech Company Bribed Chinese Officials

Date 16/02/2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a Massachusetts-based technology company and its Chinese subsidiaries agreed to pay more than $28 million to settle parallel civil and criminal actions involving violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).