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ASIC Consultation Papers On Financial Reporting And Foreign lLcensees

Date 01/10/2015

ASIC today released two consultation papers proposing to remake eight class orders that are due to expire (‘sunset’) in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Final Settlement Price Of Dubai Crude Oil For September 2015 Contract

Date 01/10/2015

Final settlement price of Dubai Crude Oil for September 2015 contract is 34,310 yen.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Market Attributes: U.S. Index Dashboard

Date 01/10/2015

Some Demographic Groups Under-Represented Among Investor Households, FINRA Foundation Research Finds

Date 01/10/2015

More than 3 in 10 U.S. households own taxable investment accounts, but black and Hispanic households are significantly less likely than white households to hold taxable accounts, according to A Snapshot of Investor Households in America, a new report issued by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. Millennial households and those headed by single women also have low taxable account ownership rates.    

FINRA Statement Regarding Series 24 Exam

Date 01/10/2015

Due to a configuration error, some of the individuals who took the Series 24 supervisory examination in recent weeks incorrectly received a failing grade. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is notifying all of the affected firms and is correcting individual records in its CRD database.

SIFMA President And CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. Remarks At The SIFMA Liquidity Forum

Date 01/10/2015

SIFMA President and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. delivered opening remarks and introduced the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s President and CEO William C. Dudley at the SIFMA Liquidity Forum in New York.

BM&FBOVESPA Presents The State-Owned Enterprise Governance Program

Date 30/09/2015

On Wednesday afternoon BM&FBOVESPA presented the State-Owned Enterprise Governance Program. BM&FBOVESPA Chief Executive Officer Edemir Pinto took part in this event alongside capital market representatives.

New Zealand To Move To T+2 In 2016

Date 30/09/2015

The New Zealand Stock Exchange will move to a T+2 settlement cycle on 7 March, the same day as Australia.

TEXPERS Special Report: Texas' State And Local Pension Funds Achieve Best Five-Year Measure Of Financial Health In 2014-15

Date 30/09/2015

The Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems issued a report today showing that 93 state and local pension funds which submit data to the Texas Pension Review Board combined in 2014-2015 to achieve the best overall improvement in financial health in five years.

CFTC Charges Florida-Based Guardian Asset Group, LLC And Andrew Kurzbard With Engaging In Illegal, Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions

Date 30/09/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil injunctive enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Defendants Guardian Asset Group, LLC (Guardian) and its owner and principal, Andrew Kurzbard, both of West Palm Beach, Florida. The CFTC Complaint charges the Defendants with engaging in illegal, off-exchange transactions in precious metals with retail customers on a leveraged, margined, or financed basis. The Complaint further alleges that Kurzbard, as controlling person for Guardian, is liable for Guardian’s violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).