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EBRD Celebrates Clients’ Commitment To Sustainability

Date 09/05/2019

• EBRD’s annual Sustainability Award winners announced
• Twelve clients honoured for their excellent sustainability work
• Recognises businesses that excel in four categories 

Statement At Open Meeting On Proposed Amendments To Sarbanes Oxley 404(B) Accelerated Filer Definition, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, May 9, 2019

Date 09/05/2019

Good morning. This is an open meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, under the Government in the Sunshine Act. Our only item on the agenda today is a recommendation from the Division of Corporation Finance to propose amendments to the definitions of "accelerated filer" and "large accelerated filer."

CFTC Commissioner Behnam To Participate In A Panel At The French Presidency G7 2019 Conference On Cybersecurity

Date 09/05/2019

Statement On Proposed Amendments To Sarbanes Oxley 404(b) Accelerated Filer Definition, SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr., May 9, 2019

Date 09/05/2019

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Staff in the Division of Corporation Finance, including John Fieldsend, Elizabeth Murphy, Felicia Kung, Lindsay McCord, and Director Bill Hinman, for their work in developing today’s release. I also appreciate the efforts of my colleagues in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, especially Director SP Kothari, Chyhe Becker, and Tara Bhandari.

Tradeweb Markets Monthly Activity Report April 2019 - Continued Strong Trading Activity Year To Date

Date 09/05/2019

Average daily volume (ADV) across rates, credit, money markets and equities for Tradeweb Markets in April 2019 was the second highest monthly total ever at Tradeweb. ADV for April 2019of $665.5 billion (bn) rose 34.2 percent (%) year over year (YoY) while average daily trades totaled 49,423.

Deutsche Bank Exec Joins The Founders Bank Project As CEO - The Founders Bank Project Announces The Appointment Of Senior Deutsche Bank Executive Kenan Altunis To The Role Of Chief Executive Officer

Date 09/05/2019

The Founders Bank project has appointed senior Deutsche Bank executive Kenan Altunis to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Altunis will lead a team comprised of senior executives with decades of global financial services experience across banking, asset management and corporate finance.

CFTC Charges Former Natural Gas Head Trader With Fraudulently Mismarking Futures And Physical Trades

Date 09/05/2019

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a federal civil enforcement action today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against defendant David Smothermon of Houston, Texas, charging him with defrauding the commodities-trading company where he worked as president and head trader of the company’s gas division by scheming to inflate the reported mark-to-market profit-and-loss value of the gas division’s overall trading book in order to conceal losses that ultimately grew to cause the company to suffer more than $100 million in realized losses. 

Solactive Launches Global Technology Leaders Index

Date 09/05/2019

Solactive is pleased to announce the release of its Solactive Global Technology Leaders Index.  It tracks the performance of both globally leading technology companies and businesses not necessarily labeled as traditional tech firms by a common sector classification system, but whose disruptive potential made them market incumbents that set significant impulses for the entire technology industry. This, in particular, refers to, but is not limited to, global companies engaged in technology-related themes such as Cyber-Security, the Internet of Things, E-Commerce, Robotics & Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, and Cloud/Big Data.

UAE Financial Services Professionals Focus On Upskilling In Bid To Meet Market And Regulatory Demands

Date 09/05/2019

• More than 2443 CISI qualifications earned by financial services professionals in the country in the past 12 months
• CISI UAE membership soars by 18%, signifying an increase in adherence to international standards

EBRD Launches New Good Governance Policies

Date 09/05/2019

• EBRD unveils good governance policies at the EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum
• The three policies represent the fundamental governance policies of the Bank
• Over 500 EBRD stakeholders provided comments and feedback to shape these policies