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MNI India Business Sentiment Indicator: India Business Confidence At Lowest Since Feb 2014 - Growth In New Orders And Production Continues To Ease

Date 26/11/2015

The busy festival season failed to bring cheer to India’s largest companies in November, as business sentiment fell to the lowest level since February 2014, with companies also seeing little chance of a revival over the coming months.

SGX Welcomes The Trendlines Group As 100th New Listing On Catalist

Date 26/11/2015

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed The Trendlines Group Ltd. (Trendlines) to Catalist under the stock code “42T”, marking Catalist’s 100th new listing since it was officially launched in November 2007. 

Dalian Commodity Exchange Holds Forum On Integrity In Changchun

Date 26/11/2015

Recently Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) held the “2015 First Forum on Integrity Construction in Futures Market” in Changchun City, Jilin Province, with the aim of pushing the investors in the futures market to understand and participate in the integrity construction of the futures market.

CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

Date 25/11/2015

Due to the Federal holiday observed on November 26, 2015, the CFTC will publish the weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 3:30pm EST.

IIROC Publishes Concept Paper To Facilitate Dialogue - Proficiency Requirements And Directed Commissions

Date 25/11/2015

IIROC is considering ways in which it can make the delivery of securities regulation in Canadamore efficient by reducing regulatory overlaps and harmonizing our requirements and standards with those on other regulatory platforms, while pursuing the public interest and maintaining or enhancing investor choice and investor protection.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 25/11/2015

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

SEC: Former Goldman Employee Charged With Insider Trading Before Mergers

Date 25/11/2015

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against a former Goldman Sachs employee accused of stealing nonpublic information in the firm’s e-mail system so he could trade illegally in advance of client mergers and make more than $450,000 in illicit profits.  The SEC has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of the trader and accounts he used to place the illicit trades. 

Financial Benchmarks: European Commission Welcomes Agreement On New Rules To Prevent Manipulation

Date 25/11/2015

The European Commission welcomes last night's agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on a Regulation of financial benchmarks.

Nasdaq CFO Lee Shavel To Present At 2015 Nasdaq Annual Investor Program In London

Date 25/11/2015

Who: Nasdaq CFO Lee Shavel  

What: 2015 Nasdaq Annual Investor Program in London  

When: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:45 PM GMT  

Office of Financial Research Update: "Safe Assets As Commodity Money"

Date 25/11/2015

The OFR released a working paper today entitled, "Safe Assets as Commodity Money." This paper examines the systemic implications of the supply of liquid safe assets, such as Treasury bills. The paper explores how liquid safe assets facilitate the trades of risky assets. The paper finds that financial markets may be remarkably resilient to changes in the stock of liquid assets.