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  • New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: Impact Of COVID-19 On Independent AML/CFT Audits

    Date 21/04/2020

    Section 59(2) of the AML/CFT Act requires a reporting entity to have its risk assessment and AML/CFT programme independently audited every two years. COVID-19 may impact a reporting entity’s ability to have its independent audit undertaken within that timeframe.  Any reporting entity unable to complete its independent audit on time due to COVID-19 should contact the FMA (at aml@fma.govt.nz) to discuss their position.


  • Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Regulatory Response To COVID-19

    Date 21/04/2020

    The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is determined to respond actively to the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Hong Kong’s capital markets.  This response extends to the many brokers, asset managers and other market intermediaries the SFC supervises as well as listed companies and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK). 

  • SEC Provides For Phased CAT Broker-Dealer Reporting Timelines With Conditional Exemption For Impacts Of COVID-19

    Date 21/04/2020

    The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it has voted to issue two exemptive orders in order to move Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) implementation forward: (1) establishing a phased CAT reporting timeline for broker-dealers, and (2) permitting introducing brokers that meet certain requirements to follow the small broker-dealer reporting timeline.

  • MGEX Extends Congratulations To Bitnomial

    Date 20/04/2020

    MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), announces that earlier today, one of the Exchange’s business partners, Bitnomial Exchange, LLC (Bitnomial) received designation from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a DCM.  This designation paves the way for Bitnomial to launch physically delivered Bitcoin futures and options contracts.  MGEX will be providing clearing services to Bitnomial for these new products.    

  • CFTC Designates Bitnomial Exchange, LLC As A Contract Market

    Date 20/04/2020

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it has issued an Order of Designation to Bitnomial Exchange, LLC located in Chicago, Ill., granting it status as a designated contract market (DCM), effective today. Bitnomial Exchange is a limited liability company formed under Delaware state law.

  • US Justice Department Announces Additional Distribution Of More Than $378 Million To Victims Of Madoff Ponzi Scheme

    Date 20/04/2020

    At the start of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the Department of Justice today announced that on April 20, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its fifth distribution of approximately $378.5 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the total distributed to over $2.7 billion to nearly 38,000 victims worldwide. 

  • ISDA derivatiViews: Impetus For Automation

    Date 20/04/2020

    The coronavirus outbreak has forced firms to focus on immediate, critical priorities like business continuity, managing risk and supporting customers. However, the remote working and social distancing measures introduced as part of the pandemic response have underscored another issue – the difficulties caused by complex, inefficient and highly manually processes.

  • CFTC’s Energy And Environmental Markets Advisory Committee To Meet On May 7

    Date 20/04/2020

    Commissioner Dan Berkovitz, the sponsor of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC), today announced that the EEMAC will hold a public meeting on Thursday, May 7, 2020 to hear remarks on the Commission’s Position Limits for Derivatives proposed rule, as approved on January 30, 2020. The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. (EDT) and be held via conference call in accordance with the agency’s implementation of social distancing due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

  • SEC Issues $5 Million Whistleblower Award

    Date 20/04/2020

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a $5 million award to a whistleblower who provided significant information that led to a successful enforcement action.  The whistleblower provided critical evidence of wrongdoing, which helped save time and resources in the SEC’s investigation, and the whistleblower suffered a unique hardship as a result of raising concerns internally. 


  • Public Letter To European Commission And European Parliament On The Devastating Impact Of Rejecting The Draft Regulatory Technical Standards (Level 2) On PRIIPS For EU Citizens As Long Term And Pension Savers

    Date 20/04/2020

    Today Ms Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary General of AGE Platform Europe, and Mr Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, sent an Open Letter to the European Commission and European Parliament’s ECON Committee on the issue of the draft level 2 rules for the Key Information Document (“KID”) of “retail” investment products (“PRIIPs”) proposed by the European Supervisory Authorities.