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Shanghai Stock Exchange Enhances Work Transparency Through Micro-Blog (2013-04-19) The Recruitment Of Micro-Blog Fans For The Webcast Themed With “One Day At The SSE” Is Launched

Date 19/04/2013

The official micro-blog “SSE Release” of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), by joining hands with other micro-blogs, including those of the Shanghai Securities News, people.com.cn, finance.sina.com.cn, and finance.qq.com, will hold a webcast of pictures and messages sent by the SSE’s micro-blog fans, in a bid to further enhance the SSE’s work transparency, help the market and all walks of life understand its work, and continuously improve its service quality. A batch of the SSE’s micro-blog fans will be invited to visit the exchange. The most concerned departments and working procedures of the SSE will be opened to the micro-blog fans according to their voting results. On the afternoon of April 17, the “SSE Release” made an announcement on the recruitment of micro-blog fans for the webcast themed with “One Day at the SSE”.
Intergovernmental Group Of Twenty-Four On International Monetary Affairs And Development

Date 19/04/2013

We, the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development, held our eighty-ninth meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 2013 with Mr. Luis Videgaray Caso, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico in the Chair, Dr. Ashraf El-Araby, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation of Egypt as First Vice-Chair, and Mr. Alain Bifani, Director General of Finance of Lebanon as Second Vice-Chair.
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority: Five Star Finance Saga Draws To A Close With Prison Sentence For Neill Williams

Date 19/04/2013

Neill Williams has this afternoon been sentenced to three years and seven months’ imprisonment for his role in the collapse of the Five Star finance companies, more than two and a half years after he pleaded guilty to the charges.
IMF: Transcript Of A Press Conference Of The Managing Director - Panelists, Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director, David Lipton, IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Gerry Rice, Director, IMF Communications Department

Date 18/04/2013

MR. RICE: Good morning, everyone. A warm welcome to these Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, and to this press conference on behalf of the IMF. I am very pleased to introduce to you this morning the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, and our First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton. I would ask you to please identify yourselves by name and affiliation, and please keep it to one question, and if you can make it as short as possible.
Canadian Securities Administrators Seeks Comment On Proposals For Derivatives Market Registration And Regulation

Date 18/04/2013

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published for comment Consultation Paper 91-407 – Derivatives: Registration, which sets out the CSA’s recommendations on registration and regulation of market participants trading in derivatives.

Doing The Right Thing: Compliance That Works For Investors By SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar - The Regulatory Compliance Association - Regulation, Operations & Compliance (ROC) 2013™, New York, NY, April 18, 2013

Date 18/04/2013

Good morning. Thank you for that kind introduction. Before I begin, let me issue the standard disclaimer that the views I express today are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), my fellow Commissioners, or members of the staff.
New Single European Banking Supervisor Agreed

Date 18/04/2013

Today in Brussels, EU member states agreed on the setting up of a new EU single supervisor for banks. This followed a key breakthrough in Ministerial talks at the Ecofin informal meeting in Dublin on 12-13 April.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Names Louis Marc Ducharme As Director Of The Fund’s Statistics Department

Date 18/04/2013

Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), named today Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme to the position of Director, Statistics Department. His appointment will be effective in June 2013. Mr. Ducharme succeeds Ms. Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz, who resigned effective January 23, 2013.
STOXX Announces Results Of Annual Emerging And Developed Markets Classification Review - STOXX Global 1800 Index To Cover All Developed Market Countries

Date 18/04/2013

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the results of the regular annual review of the STOXX Emerging and Developed Markets Country Classification. All changes will become effective with the open of markets on September 23, 2013. Furthermore, the index universe of the STOXX Global 1800 Index and all related sub and sector indices, among them the STOXX Europe 600 Index, will be extended to cover all countries which are classified as developed markets starting with the Q3 benchmark index review.
CFTC Charges Accounting Firm Tunney & Associates, P.C. And Its Sole Owner Michael Tunney With Failing To Properly Audit A Registered Futures Commission Merchant

Date 18/04/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it filed a Complaint against Tunney & Associates, P.C. (Tunney & Associates), an accounting firm with offices in Hammond, Indiana and Orland Park, Illinois, and Michael Tunney (Tunney), its sole owner and a certified public accountant (CPA) licensed in Illinois and Indiana, alleging violations of the CFTC’s Regulations related to conducting audits for The Linn Group, Inc. (TLG), a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).