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Business Must Press Governments On Climate Change Ahead Of The Cancun Summit - CDP FTSE 350 Report Shows Just 1 In 10 Companies Encouraging Policy Action That Drives Mitigation And Adaptation - HSBC Holdings, Reckitt Benckiser, Royal Bank Of Scotland Grou

Date 08/10/2010

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) urges companies to engage with governments in the lead up to the UN climate change summit to encourage policy action and demonstrate the significant opportunities that are now recognised across UK boardrooms from action on climate change. The CDP FTSE 350 report, prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and released today, reveals that only one in ten companies are engaging with policymakers to encourage policy action that drives climate change mitigation and
BM&FBOVESPA Announces September 2010 Market Performance

Date 07/10/2010

Highlights: Individual investors reach a record 630,895. Securities lending reaches a record BRL 44.21bn. Trading in ETFs grows 35.26% since round lot reduced to 10 from 100.
mergermarket Publishes Q3 2010 M&A Round-Up

Date 07/10/2010

HIGHLIGHTS Global M&A up in Q3 2010 Global M&A totalled US$ 1,422.9bn for the first three quarters of 2010, up 25% from the same period in 2009. Deal count was also up by 18% at 8,102 announced deals.
SEC Charges Penny Stock Promoters In Series Of Kickback Schemes

Date 07/10/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged more than a dozen penny stock promoters and their companies with securities fraud for their roles in various illicit kickback schemes to manipulate the volume and price of microcap stocks and illegally generate stock sales. One of the schemes was perpetrated by an actor who starred as a police officer on the long-running television show CHiPs.
“Crash Cart” - Statement Of Commissioner Bart Chilton Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission - On The Joint CFTC/SEC Staff Report On The May 6 Flash Crash

Date 07/10/2010

This report details what went wrong on May 6 and, as many have guessed, there was no one culprit. The markets were skittish all day in large part due to the worsening economic news coming out of Europe. Volume and volatility were very high. By mid-afternoon, liquidity was drying up and sellers were having difficulty finding buyers. Then, when one institutional firm utilized an algorithmic trading program to sell 75,000 contracts valued at over $4 billion, the markets went into shock.

SEC Charges Internationally Syndicated Radio Show Host With Securities Fraud Scheme

Date 07/10/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a talk radio show host and two other executives at a Monterey, Calif.-based firm with misappropriating $2.5 million of approximately $7 million they raised through the fraudulent sale of interests in two real estate investment funds.
TMX Group Inc. To Announce Financial Results For Q3 2010 On Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Date 07/10/2010

TMX Group Inc. will release its financial results for the third quarter 2010 on Wednesday, October 27, 2010.
SEC Charges Purported Real Estate Business And Owner For Conducting Ponzi Scheme

Date 07/10/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Chicago-area company and its owner for perpetrating a Ponzi scheme in which they promised investors extraordinary returns generated from a purportedly successful real estate business.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee To Meet October 12, 2010 - Committee To Continue Discussion Of High Frequency And Algorithmic Trading Practices And The Role Of Technology In Pre- And Post-Trade Transparency In Implemen

Date 07/10/2010

The second meeting of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee (TAC), titled “Technology: Achieving the Statutory Goals and Regulatory Objectives of the Dodd-Frank Act,” will be held on October 12, 2010 at 1:00 p.m., at the CFTC’s Washington, DC headquarters’ Hearing Room. The TAC will continue its discussion of computerized trade strategies and their role in the events of May 6, 2010 as they inform and guide regulatory reforms under Dodd-Frank. Andrei Kirilenko, a Senior Financial Economis
SEC Halts Web-Based Scheme Defrauding Deaf Investors

Date 07/10/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an Internet-based investment company with securities fraud for soliciting several million dollars from U.S. investors and promising them guaranteed returns of 1.2 percent per day while in reality siphoning the funds into foreign bank accounts and not paying a single penny back to investors.