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New Zealand Financial Markets Authority: Guidelines For Financial Services Businesses And Staff Under COVID-19 Alert Level 2

Date 14/02/2021

Information on Alert Level 2 Public Health Requirements can be found here: 
https://worksafe.govt.nz/managing-health-and-safety/novel-coronavirus-covid/covid-19-alert-level-2-public-health-requirements-what-you-need-to-know/

New Zealand Financial Markets Authority: Guidelines For Financial Services Businesses And Staff Under COVID-19 Alert Level 2

Date 14/02/2021

Information on Alert Level 2 Public Health Requirements can be found here: 
https://worksafe.govt.nz/managing-health-and-safety/novel-coronavirus-covid/covid-19-alert-level-2-public-health-requirements-what-you-need-to-know/

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Exchange And Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Trading To Continue (As Normal) From Tomorrow (Feb. 15)

Date 14/02/2021

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures on February 13. Despite this, trading on all markets of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Exchange and Tokyo Commodity Exchange is scheduled to continue as normal from tomorrow, February 15, and beyond.

Statement Of SEC Commissioners Hester M. Peirce And Elad L. Roisman On Contingent Settlement Offers

Date 12/02/2021

Investigating and bringing civil enforcement actions for violations of the federal securities laws is integral to achieving the Securities and Exchange Commission’s three-part mission of protecting investors, facilitating capital formation, and maintaining fair and orderly markets. Negotiated settlement of civil enforcement actions on just and fair terms often best serves this mission because it allows for prompt correction of unlawful conduct. For this reason, since July 2019, the Commission has considered and accepted contingent settlement offers, meaning offers that would resolve both the claimed violations of the federal securities laws and the collateral consequences that sometimes arise from the violations, most often by granting certain waivers. As then-Chairman Clayton explained, treating the offer to settle claimed violations and the related waiver requesting relief from collateral consequences as “two separate and unconnected events” created a “formulaic separation [that] often is inconsistent with appropriate consideration of the substance and interconnected nature of the matters at issue and undermines factors that drive appropriate settlements.” Yesterday, the policy of considering settlement offers holistically abruptly changed when Acting Chair Lee issued a statement saying that “the Division of Enforcement will no longer recommend to the Commission a settlement offer that is conditioned on granting a waiver.”

CFTC Commitments Of Traders Update

Date 12/02/2021

The current reports for the week of February 9, 2021 are now available.

Canadian Securities Regulators Respond To The Modernization Taskforce Final Report And Encourage A Harmonized Regulatory System That Protects Investors And Reduces Unnecessary Burden - Ontario Is Urged To Adopt The Passport Rule To Introduce Speed And Eliminate Additional Costs

Date 12/02/2021

The securities regulatory authorities of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Québec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon (CSA members), today published a response to the Ontario Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce (“Taskforce”) Final Report (“Report”) issued January 22, 2021.

Nadex Temporarily Amends Binary Contracts Strike Width

Date 12/02/2021

Pursuant to Section 5c(c)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (“Act”), and Section 40.6(d) of the regulations promulgated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “Commission”) under the Act (the “Regulations”), North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (“Nadex”, the “Exchange”) hereby provides notice that due to increased volatility in the underlying markets upon which the Nadex contracts are based, Nadex made changes to the strike widths of various contracts during the week of February 8, 2021 as indicated in the Weekly Notice. 

Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Market Report For February 12th 2021

Date 12/02/2021

A total turnover of 2.683 billion shares worth N23.662 billion in 27,844 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange, in contrast to a total of 2.767 billion shares valued at N29.685 billion that exchanged hands last week in 31,380 deals.

Nadex Refrains From Listing Certain Contracts

Date 12/02/2021

Due to activity in the underlying markets upon which the Nadex contracts are based and pursuant to the authority granted in Nadex Rule 12.1(i), Nadex took the following actions: 

• No GBP/JPY 5-Minute contracts were listed for the 6:05pm expiration time on trade date February 8, 2021. 

Statement From US Treasury Department Spokesperson On Secretary Janet L. Yellen’s Participation In The G7 Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors Meeting

Date 12/02/2021

Earlier today, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen participated in a virtual meeting with G7 finance ministers and central bank governors.  Secretary Yellen emphasized the commitment of the Biden Administration to multilateralism to solve global issues, stating that the United States “places a high priority on deepening our international engagement and strengthening our alliances.”