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European Financial Integration: Speech By Jean-Claude Trichet, President Of The ECB At 23. Internationales ZinsFORUM ”Zinsen 2009”, Frankfurt Am Main, 11 December 2008

Date 11/12/2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank the organisers for the invitation to speak about European financial integration here at the Zinsforum. The challenging times we are now experiencing provide an excellent opportunity to exchange thoughts on this topic that is of great interest to the ECB. More integrated financial markets are important for realising the full potential of the single market. But they also make the execution of the single monetary policy in the euro area more ef
Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Global Titans 50, Dow Jones Country Titans And Dow Jones Sector Titans Indexes

Date 11/12/2008

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Global Titans 50, Dow Jones Country Titans and Dow Jones Sector Titans indexes.
KCBT Wheat Daily Price Limit At 60 Cents - Daily Price Limit For Trade Date December 12, 2008 At 60 Cents

Date 11/12/2008

Price limits for KCBT hard red winter wheat futures are at 60 cents for trade date December 12, 2008 (effective with the December 11 evening session).
Chicago Climate Futures Exchange Announces New Records For Daily Volume And Open Interest In RGGI Futures And Options

Date 11/12/2008

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® (CCFE®), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. (CCX®), announced today that it established a new record for daily volume in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (“RGGI”) futures and options with 2,188 contracts traded (representing 2,188,000 RGGI allowances).
Nevada Firm Alliance Development Co. And William Snyder Ordered To Pay $3.65 Million In Restitution And Penalties For Operating A Commodity Pool Scam In CFTC Anti-Fraud Action - Synder’s Daughter, Christi Wilson, Ordered To Disgorge $220,000 In Payments M

Date 11/12/2008

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced today that Alliance Development Company (Alliance) of Reno, Nevada, and William Snyder of Issaquah, Washington were ordered to pay restitution of $550,000 and civil monetary penalties of $1.65 million and $1.45 million, respectively, to settle a CFTC enforcement action charging them with commodity pool fraud.

ICE Futures Canada FCM Customer Margin Changes

Date 11/12/2008

Click here to download the initial and maintenance margins that apply to non-participant speculative accounts held with FCMs.
CME Group Names Marcus Katz Director, Interest Rate Products

Date 11/12/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has named Marcus Katz as Director, Interest Rate Products. Katz, 47, will be responsible for expanding CME Group's presence in the over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate market and growing the company's global customer base. These responsibilities will include leading efforts to market CME Group's benchmark interest rate products as tools to replicate OTC derivative transactions and developing ne
Dow Jones 2008 Summer Games Index Changes To Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index - Results Of The Regular Quarterly Review To Be Effective On December 22, 2008

Date 11/12/2008

With the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games now completed, Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the renaming of the Dow Jones 2008 Summer Games Index to the Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index. The name change reflects the index's objective of measuring the performance of companies that are official sponsors or suppliers of the Olympic Games, starting with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The new index composition also is being announced today.
SEC: Zurich Financial Services, Converium Holding AG Settle Reinsurance Fraud Charges

Date 11/12/2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled civil securities fraud charges against Zurich Financial Services and Converium Holding AG, now known as SCOR Holding (Switzerland) AG, relating to finite reinsurance transactions. The SEC's orders find that Zurich's former reinsurance group, which operated under the name Zurich Re and was later spun off in 2001 as Converium, designed three reinsurance transactions to make it appear that risk had been transferred to third-par
CFTC Seeks Public Comment On Proposed Rules To Expand Regulatory Authority Over Exempt Commercial Markets

Date 11/12/2008

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission requests public comment on rules and rule amendments that increase the oversight of Exempt Commercial Markets (ECMs) as directed by the CFTC Reauthorization Act of 2008. ECMs are lesser-regulated electronic trading facilities that allow institutional participants to trade exempt over-the-counter commodities such as energy swaps.