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CBOE Futures Exchange Reports April 2015 Trading Volume

Date 01/05/2015

• 3.4 Million VIX Futures Contracts Traded
• VIX Futures ADV, Total Volume Down From Prior Month

OneChicago Announces Trading Volume For April 2015

Date 01/05/2015

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced its April 2015 volume of 567,194, an increase of 2% year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,500 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.

CBOE Holdings Reports April 2015 Trading Volume

Date 01/05/2015

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) reported today that total trading volume during April for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) and C2 Options Exchange (C2) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE®) was 91.4 million contracts, a decrease of four percent versus March 2015 and a decrease of 15 percent from April 2014.

ISE Holdings Reports Business Activity For April 2015

Date 01/05/2015

• ISE and ISE Gemini combined represent 16.7% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
• ISE and ISE Gemini reported a combined ADV of 2.4 million contracts.
• Dividend trades made up 0.7% of industry volume in April 2015.

BATS 1000 Index Down 0.5% This Week

Date 01/05/2015

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a leading operator of exchanges and services for financial markets globally, reports the BATS 1000® Index (Ticker: BATSK) declined 127.12 points to close at 23,340.64, down 0.5 percent over last Friday’s close.

Canadian Securities Regulators Publish Guidance For Proxy Advisory Firms

Date 01/05/2015

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) yesterday adopted National Policy 25-201 Guidance for Proxy Advisory Firms (the Policy).

US Justice Department: BNP Paribas Sentenced For Conspiring To Violate The International Emergency Economic Powers Act And The Trading With The Enemy Act

Date 01/05/2015

BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP), a global financial institution headquartered in Paris, was sentenced today for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) by processing billions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Sudanese, Iranian and Cuban entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions.  BNPP was sentenced to a five-year term of probation, and ordered to forfeit $8,833,600,000 to the United States and to pay a $140,000,000 fine.  Today’s sentencing is the first time a financial institution has been convicted and sentenced for violations of U.S. economic sanctions, and the total financial penalty—including the forfeiture and criminal fine—is the largest financial penalty ever imposed in a criminal case.

CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

Date 01/05/2015

The current reports for the week of April 28, 2015 are now available.

OCC Cleared Contract Volume Declined 8% In April - Securities Lending Activity Up 16% In April And 12% Year-To-Date

Date 01/05/2015

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in April was 331,552,965 contracts, an 8 percent decrease from the April 2014 monthly volume of 360,854,580 contracts. Average daily volume at OCC is down 9 percent in 2015 with 16,317,845 contracts. OCC's stock loan program reported strong volume numbers in April with year-to-date activity up 12 percent.

CFTC Sanctions FCStone, LLC For Supervision Violations - Firm Ordered To Pay $140,000 Civil Penalty

Date 01/05/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) entered an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against FCStone, LLC, a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) headquartered in New York, New York, for failing to provide and maintain an adequate program of supervision and for failing to diligently supervise its employees on one occasion in violation of CFTC Regulation 166.3.