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ASIC Update On Compensation By Institutions For Poor Financial Advice

Date 01/08/2019

Australia's five largest banking and financial services institutions have paid a total of $119.7 million in compensation as at 30 June 2019 to customers who suffered loss or detriment because of non-compliant advice given by financial advisers.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Final Settlement Prices Of Cash-Settled Oil Futures July 2019 Contracts

Date 01/08/2019

Final settlement prices for cash-settled oil futures July 2019 contracts are as follows:

(Yen/kl)
Platts cash-settled Dubai Crude Oil    43,080
Cash-settled Barge Gasoline                60,200
Cash-settled Lorry Gasoline                60,280
Platts cash-settled Barge Kerosene    57,960
Platts cash-settled Lorry Kerosene    60,540
Platts cash-settled Barge Gas Oil       61,760
Platts cash-settled Lorry Gas Oil       61,650

CFTC Charges Trader With Spoofing In Financial Futures Markets

Date 31/07/2019

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against Benjamin Cox, a trader and CFTC-registered floor broker based in Chicago, Illinois, for engaging in spoofing in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) E-mini S&P 500 and E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures markets. 

Cboe Global Markets Declares Increased Third-Quarter 2019 Dividend - Quarterly Cash Dividend Increased By 16 Percent To $0.36- Ninth Consecutive Year Cboe Has Increased Its Dividend

Date 31/07/2019

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today announced its Board of Directors has declared an increased quarterly cash dividend of $0.36 per share of common stock for the third quarter of 2019, representing a 16 percent increase from the prior quarter's dividend of $0.31 per share.

MIAX Options Exchange - August 1, 2019 Fee Changes

Date 31/07/2019

Effective August 1, 2019, pending SEC approval, the MIAX Options Fee Schedule will be amended.  

US Department Of Justice Begins Fourth Distribution Of Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture To Compensate Victims Of Bernard Madoff Fraud Scheme - Largest Payment Of Forfeited Funds In The History Of The Department Of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program

Date 31/07/2019

The Department of Justice today announced that on July 31, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its fourth distribution of $469.6 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 $2.4 billion to nearly 32,000 victims worldwide.  In this distribution, payments will be sent to over 25,000 victims across the globe, bringing their total recovery to 66.85 percent.  This distribution represents the fourth in a series of payments that will eventually return over $4 billion to victims as compensation for losses they suffered from the collapse of the BLMIS.  The MVF has received over 65,000 petitions from victims in 136 countries.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 31/07/2019

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.

Bloomberg Selected As Fallback Adjustment Vendor

Date 31/07/2019

ISDA today announced that Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL) has been selected to calculate and publish adjustments related to fallbacks that ISDA intends to implement for certain interest rate benchmarks in its 2006 ISDA Definitions.

SIFMA Statement On Debt Limit Suspension Vote

Date 31/07/2019

SIFMA today released the following statement from SIFMA president and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., expressing strong support for Senate passage of a bill to suspend the debt limit through July 2021. The House passed the legislation on July 18.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Europe Dashboard

Date 31/07/2019

• Accompanied by the drum of earnings beats, European equities ended July with modest gains. Contrasting with corporate profits, the International Monetary Fund reduced its global growth forecast, while the European Central Bank hinted at future stimulus and called for additional fiscal support. 
• The S&P Europe 350® gained on the month, led up by the Consumer Staples and Health Care Sectors, while the Materials Sector struggled. 
• Boris Johnson began his term as U.K. Prime Minister with demands for a renegotiation of the E.U. withdrawal agreement, issuing a threat to otherwise leave without one. The pound sterling swooned, pushing it down near its lowest in two years. On the other side of the negotiating table, Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the first female president of the European Commission.