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SEC Charges Corporate Insider Brothers With Fraud

Date 29/07/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged brothers Samuel E. Wyly and Charles J. Wyly, Jr. of Dallas with violating federal securities laws governing ownership and trading of securities by corporate insiders. The Wyly brothers reaped more than $550 million in undisclosed gains while sitting on corporate boards by trading stock in those public companies through hidden entities located in foreign jurisdictions to conceal their ownership and trading of those securities.
Global X Funds Lists Global X Brazil Financials ETF On NYSE Arca

Date 29/07/2010

NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, NYSE Arca, today began trading the Global X Brazil Financials ETF (Ticker: BRAF). The ETF is sponsored by Global X Funds.
SIFMA Survey Expects Total Net Treasury Issuance Increase As Economic Recovery Slows

Date 29/07/2010

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today issued the results of its Quarterly Government Securities Issuance and Rates Forecast. The median survey response forecast total net Treasury bill, note and bond issuance to be $399.0 billion in the third quarter of 2010, compared with the net $343.6 billion issued in the second quarter of 2010 and the net $392.5 billion issued in the third quarter a year ago. The quarterly projected increase may reflect increasing worrie
CFTC And Defendant Paul Greenwood Agree To A Consent Order Finding That Greenwood Operated A Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Scam - Federal Court Enjoins Greenwood For His Role In Misappropriating More Than $80 Million Of Pool Participants’ Funds For His

Date 29/07/2010

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal court in New York entered a consent order of permanent injunction and equitable relief against Paul Greenwood of North Salem, N.Y. The CFTC charged Greenwood with operating a $1.3 billion investment scam in which he and co-defendant Stephen Walsh, of Sands Point, N.Y., misappropriated at least $553 million from commodity pool participants in connection with entities they owned and controlled, su
SIFMA Supports The Creation Of A U.S. Covered Bond Market

Date 29/07/2010

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today issued the following statement on H.R. 5823, the United States Covered Bond Act of 2010, from Sean Davy, managing director and leader of SIFMA’s U.S. Covered Bond Council:“SIFMA supports the development of a covered bond market in the U.S. and applauds the action taken by the House Financial Services Committee today. Covered bonds can provide a substantial and stable source of long term private capital and liquidit

SEC Charges Citigroup And Two Executives For Misleading Investors About Exposure To Subprime Mortgage Assets - Citigroup Agrees To Pay $75 Million Penalty

Date 29/07/2010

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Program Trading Averaged 27.4 Percent Of NYSE Volume During July 19-23

Date 29/07/2010

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for July 19-23.
CME Group Gold Futures Reach Record Volume

Date 29/07/2010

CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, had record volume yesterday in its COMEX gold futures contract of 424,316 contracts. The prior record was 409,842 on May 25, 2010.
BME Approves The Distribution Of A €33.3 Million Interim Dividend On September 10 - It Represents A Gross €0.40 Per Share

Date 29/07/2010

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) today agreed to distribute on September 10 its first interim dividend against 2010 earnings for a value of €33.3 million, that is, €0.40 per share. This dividend represents the same amount than that of the first interim dividend paid in September 2009.
CFTC Adopts Amendment Regarding The Operation Of A Commodity Broker In Bankruptcy

Date 29/07/2010

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it adopted an amendment to its regulations regarding the operation of a commodity broker in bankruptcy. Under appropriate circumstances, as determined by the Commission, the amendment would permit the trustee of a commodity broker in bankruptcy to operate the business of such commodity broker in the ordinary course, including entering into new commodity contracts on behalf of customers.