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CFTC Commissioner Goldsmith Romero To Participate On A Building Industry Cyber Resilience Panel At The International Futures Industry Conference 2023

Date 08/03/2023

CFTC: Federal Court Orders Texas Energy Broker, Its Owners, And Affiliated Trading Firms To Pay Nearly $3 Million For Fraud, Trading Against Customers Without Consent And Failure To Supervise

Date 08/03/2023

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas entered a consent order on March 7 imposing monetary sanctions and injunctive relief against Coquest Inc. (Coquest), a registered introducing broker (IB), its owners Dennis Weinmann and John Vassallo, and affiliated trading firms Buttonwood LLC (Buttonwood) and Weva Properties Ltd. (Weva), all of Dallas, Texas. 

CFTC Commissioner Pham To Speak On EU@SXSW Panel At South By Southwest 2023

Date 08/03/2023

NGX Group, Stakeholders Harp On Gender Equity

Date 08/03/2023

Nigerian Exchange Group of Companies and its partners, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative, United Nations (UN) Women, United Nations Global Compact and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have called on private and public sector stakeholders to close the gender gap by creating more opportunities for women to thrive.

Opening Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham Before The Market Risk Advisory Committee

Date 08/03/2023

Good morning. Thank you to Commissioner Johnson; Bruce Fekrat, the Designated Financial Officer; and to the many guest speakers and those Members in attendance for today’s meeting of the Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC). I value your time and contributions.

Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero Before The Market Risk Advisory Committee - Continued Risk In Commodity And Derivatives Markets One Year Into Russia’s War On Ukraine

Date 08/03/2023

Thank you to the members of the Market Risk Advisory Committee (“MRAC”) for your service.  I want to recognize Commissioner Kristin Johnson for her leadership of MRAC and also recognize the staff for their work in bringing us together today.  The MRAC was created as the Commission was implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which fundamentally reformed the derivatives market structure.  It had transferred risks into clearinghouses, moved trading into new swaps platforms, and for the first time, imposed risk management, capital, and margin requirements on the largest dealers.  Markets were changing, and the risks in those markets were changing with them.

Euronext Announces Volumes For February 2023

Date 08/03/2023

Euronext, the leading pan-European market infrastructure, today announced trading volumes for February 2023.

BIS: What Happens To EMEs When US Yields Go Up?

Date 08/03/2023

Summary

Focus 

We study episodes of rapid increases in 10-year US Treasury yields and their effect on emerging market economies (EMEs). We focus on four outcomes of interest in EMEs: local currency yields, exchange rates, equity prices and portfolio fund flows. We use statistical techniques to identify the key US, global and EME-specific financial developments associated with negative outcomes in EMEs during episodes of rapid increases in US yields

The Final Declaration Of The International Conference On Islam And Climate Emergency, February 24-26, 2023, Fes, Kingdom Of Morocco

Date 08/03/2023

Opening Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson BeforeTthe Market Risk Advisory Committee Meeting

Date 08/03/2023

Introduction

Good morning and welcome to the first meeting of the Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) in 2023 and our second MRAC meeting under my sponsorship.