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Coming September 5: Shorter Trade Settlement, By Tom Price, SIFMA

Date 24/08/2017

September 5, 2017, marks a major change to standard trading practices in U.S. securities markets. 

Nadex Product Schedule For The UK Holiday On Monday, August 28, 2017

Date 24/08/2017

Due to the UK Holiday on Monday, August 28, 2017, the FTSE 100 contracts will have a modified trading schedule.  Please refer to the Holiday Product Schedule Guidelines for specific product trading hours.

London Stock Exchange Group Plc Transaction In Own Shares

Date 24/08/2017

London Stock Exchange Group plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased through RBC Europe Limited, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2017, the following number of its ordinary shares of 6 79/86 pence each ("Shares") on the London Stock Exchange as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2017:

ESMA Issues Guidelines On Portability Of Data Between Trade Repositories

Date 24/08/2017

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today final guidelines on data transfer between Trade Repositories (TRs) authorised under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).  There are currently seven authorised TRs operating in the European Union (EU) and data portability is essential for data quality, competition between TRs and for risk monitoring by authorities.

Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency Allows National Banks And Federal Savings Associations Affected By Severe Weather Along The Gulf Coast To Close

Date 24/08/2017

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today issued a proclamation allowing national banks and federal savings associations affected by severe weather along the Gulf Coast of the United States to close.

CFTC Charges South Carolina Resident Thomas Lanzana, Florida Resident Nikolay Masanko, And Their Companies Blackbox Pulse, LLC And White Cloud Mountain, LLC With Fraud, Misappropriation, And Registration Violations - Lanzana And Masanko Allegedly Operated A Ponzi Scheme That Defrauded Off-Exchange Foreign Currency Derivatives Customers Of At Least $700,000 - Federal Court Enters Asset Freeze Order Freezing Defendants’ Assets And Protecting Books And Records

Date 24/08/2017

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action against Defendants Thomas Lanzana (d/b/a Unique Forex) currently of Pawleys Island, South Carolina and his company Blackbox Pulse, LLC of North Bergen, New Jersey, and Nikolay Masanko and his company White Cloud Mountain, LLC, both of St. Augustine, Florida, charging them with fraud in connection with soliciting customers for their foreign currency derivatives (forex) trading pools and other investments. The CFTC Complaint, filed on August 21, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, also charges the Defendants with misappropriating customer funds and with registration violations.  Lanzana resided at various times in Midland Park and New Bergen, New Jersey, until approximately 2015, according to the Complaint.

ACER Consults On The Maximum And Minimum Prices In The Day-Ahead And Intraday Coupling

Date 24/08/2017

As of August 2017 the Agency has become competent to decide on the proposals for maximum and minimum prices in single day-ahead and intraday coupling developed by all Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs).
 

Federal Reserve Names Strategy Director To Lead Payment System Improvement

Date 24/08/2017

The Federal Reserve has named Dave Sapenaro as payments strategy director with responsibility for leading payment system improvement initiatives described in its "Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System" paper published in January 2015. Sapenaro, first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will succeed Gordon Werkema, whose retirement was recently announced. Sapenaro will assume this new responsibility and continue to serve as first vice president and chief operating officer of the St. Louis Fed.

London Stock Exchange Approved As An APA For MiFID II Reporting

Date 24/08/2017

• FCA approves London Stock Exchange as Approved Publication Arrangement (APA)
• APAs authorised to publish post-trade transparency reports on behalf of investment firms
• Post trade reporting to be provided through TRADEcho platform
• LSEG providing single connectivity solution for firms pre- and post-trade reporting requirements

FCA Authorises Tradeweb APA For MiFID II Trade Reporting

Date 24/08/2017

The Tradeweb APA today received authorisation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), effective from 3rd January, 2018.