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Platts: Continental European Day-Ahead Power Prices Rose 10% In January - Natural Gas Prices Fell 3% In Europe And Edged Higher In The U.K.

Date 05/02/2013

Day-ahead power prices in Continental Europe rose 10% in January, driven by cold winter temperatures and increased demand, according to Platts, a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information.
Acting Associate U.S. Attorney General Tony West Speaks At The Press Conference Announcing Lawsuit Against S&P

Date 05/02/2013

Thank you, Mr. Attorney General. And thank you for your tremendous leadership, both on the case we are announcing today and on the Department’s efforts to fight financial fraud over the past four years.
Thomson Reuters Launches Datascope Workflow License For Order Management Systems - Combines Technical Indicators, Pricing And Reference Data To Seamlessly Streamline Workflow Processes.

Date 05/02/2013

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of the DataScope Workflow License (DWL). The DataScope Workflow License combines a series of technical indicators with pricing and reference data, enabling the investment community to streamline and integrate their data management and performance strategies.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks At The Press Conference Announcing Lawsuit Against S&P

Date 05/02/2013

Good morning – and thank you all for being here. Today, I am joined by Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Stuart Delery; United States Attorney Andre Birotté, Jr., for the Central District of California; and attorneys general from six states and the District of Columbia – in announcing the latest steps forward in our ongoing efforts to protect the American people from financial fraud, to hold accountable those who violate our laws and abuse the public trust, and to seek justice for all whose lives were devastated by the recent economic crisis.
Irish Stock Exchange’s GEM Market Approved By ECB For Eurosystem Monetary Policy

Date 05/02/2013

The Irish Stock Exchange’s Global Exchange Market (GEM) has been approved by the European Central Bank (ECB) as an acceptable non-regulated market for the Eurosystem’s monetary policy.

Department Of Justice Sues Standard & Poor’s For Fraud In Rating Mortgage-Backed Securities In The Years Leading Up To The Financial Crisis - Complaint Alleges That S&P Lied About Its Objectivity And Independence And Issued Inflated Ratings For Certain Structured Debt Securities

Date 05/02/2013

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services alleging that S&P engaged in a scheme to defraud investors in structured financial products known as Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs). The lawsuit alleges that investors, many of them federally insured financial institutions, lost billions of dollars on CDOs for which S&P issued inflated ratings that misrepresented the securities’ true credit risks. The complaint also alleges that S&P falsely represented that its ratings were objective, independent, and uninfluenced by S&P’s relationships with investment banks when, in actuality, S&P’s desire for increased revenue and market share led it to favor the interests of these banks over investors.
Finansinspektionen: New Regulations Regarding Covered Bonds

Date 05/02/2013

Finansinspektionen is deciding on new regulations and general guidelines regarding covered bonds. The new regulations and general guidelines will enter into force on 1 July 2013, at which time the current regulations and general guidelines will be repealed.
Powernext Successfully Launched TTF Natural Gas Contracts

Date 05/02/2013

After four years of successful development of its gas activities in France, Powernext has extended its products offering with TTF Futures contracts as well as cleared geographical PEG Nord / TTF spreads. These products were launched on Friday 1st February 2013.
ESMA Publishes Responses To Consultations On The AIFMD

Date 05/02/2013

The responses to the consultations on draft RTS on types of AIFMs and on Guidelines on key concepts of AIFMD have been published today.
Tokyo Commodity Exchange Gold All-time High Renews For 4 Consecutive Days

Date 05/02/2013

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc, announced that its December 2013 Gold futures contract (most active/back contract month) temporarily reached 5,010 yen per gram during today’s session renewing the highest price recorded since the listing of gold futures contract at TOCOM on March 23, 1982 for the four consecutive days. Since the beginning of this year, gold price (settlement price) has advanced 6.8 percent. Daily trading volume of Gold futures (standard) was 88,333 contracts (including 60,413 contracts traded for December 2013 contract) and that of the entire TOCOM market was 165,931 contracts today.