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Opening Address By Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority Of Singapore At The Inaugural Sim Kee Boon Institute Annual Conference On Financial Economics

Date 05/05/2011

A New Financial Landscape: Rebalancing on Three Fronts

Dalian Commodity Exchange Monthly Statistics - April 2011

Date 05/05/2011

Total trading volume at the Dalian Commodity Exchange, China's leading commodity exchange, for the month of April was 20,040,557 contracts, a decrease of 14.03% compared to April 2010.  Average daily volume for this period was 1.05 million contracts.  Trading turnover totaled CNY 1.33 trillion, an increase of 17.38% compared to April 2010.  Trading volume for the 2011 reached 82.3 million contracts, 18.20% shy of 2010's total trading volume.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – April 2011

Date 05/05/2011

Average monthly new listings for FY11 year-to-date stand at 13 (compared to 8 listings per month on average for FY10). 

ELX Sets End-Of-Day Volume Record In 5-Year Treasury Futures

Date 04/05/2011

ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX), a leading electronic futures exchange, announced today that it has established a new end-of-day volume record in its 5-year U.S. Treasury futures contract, with 39,432 contracts traded. ELX ended the session with more than 105K contracts traded. ELX also captured more than 5% market share in the 2 and 5-year notes and 30-year bond.

New York Attorney Genera Schneiderman Announces $90.8 Million Settlement With Ubs For Defrauding Governments And Nonprofits Across The Country - New York Led Investigation Uncovers National Abuses In Municipal Bond Derivatives Market; UBS To Pay New York, Other States And Law Enforcement Offices For Misconduct - Biggest Share Of Settlement – $63 Million – For Governments And Nonprofits Entitled To Restitution - Schneiderman: Schemes Against Governments And Nonprofits Cheat The People They Serve

Date 04/05/2011

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a multimillion dollar settlement with UBS for fraudulent and anticompetitive conduct in its municipal bond derivative transactions with governments and nonprofits across the country. UBS will pay $90.8 million as part of a coordinated federal and state enforcement agency settlement. Of that amount, $63.3 million will go to a multistate restitution fund for governments and nonprofits that entered into municipal derivatives contracts with UBS, or used UBS as a broker on such deals, between 2001 and 2004. 

BM&FBOVESPA Announces April 2011 Market Performance

Date 04/05/2011

Record average daily volume for contracts traded in the BM&F segment

• Record financial volume for ETFs
• New cash-settled soybean futures, launched in January, trade 4,672 contracts April from 1,013 the previous month
• Options on commodity futures total 21,273 contracts in April, against 12,708 the previous month. Live cattle futures the highlight at 14,536 contracts from 8,033 in March

James R. Burns Named SEC Deputy Chief Of Staff

Date 04/05/2011

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro announced today that James R. Burns will become the agency’s Deputy Chief of Staff.

CFTC Charges Michigan Man Jeffrey L. Groendyke With Operating A Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme And Misappropriating Customer Funds - Federal Court Issues Order Freezing Assets Held In Groendyke’s Trading Accounts And Preserving Books And Records

Date 04/05/2011

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of an enforcement action charging Jeffrey L. Groendyke of Middleville, Mich., doing business as JG Forex Fund (JGF), with fraud and misappropriation in connection with an off-exchange foreign currency (forex) Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 54 customers of at least $953,305 since May 2010. Groendyke has never been registered with the CFTC in any capacity.

Dow Jones Indexes, FXCM Jointly Launch Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index - Index To Reflect Changes In Value Of U.S. Dollar Measured Against Basket Of The World’s Most Liquid Currencies: Euro, British Pound, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollar

Date 04/05/2011

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider; and FXCM Inc., a global online provider of foreign exchange trading and related services; today announced they have collaborated to launch the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index.

SIFMA Applauds Subcommittee Passage Of End User Exemption Legislation

Date 04/05/2011

SIFMA today released the following statement from Ken Bentsen, executive vice president, public policy and advocacy upon passage by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the House Financial Services Committee of H.R. 1610, the Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act, which would exempt end users from having to post margin for derivatives contracts.