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SIX Swiss Exchange SPOT Event: Successful 5th Edition

Date 25/09/2015

Meeting Of The Financial Stability Board In London On 25 September

Date 25/09/2015

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) met today in London to discuss progress in its ongoing workplan. Good progress was made in agreeing key remaining policies to help end too-big-to-fail (TBTF).

CFTC Charges New York Corporations Safety Capital Management, Inc. And GNS Capital, Inc., Both d/b/a FOREXNPOWER, And New York City Residents John Won, Sungmi Kang, And Tae Hung (“Kevin”) Kang With Fraudulently Soliciting More Than $1.5 Million In A Forex Fraud Scheme - Defendants Sungmi Kang And John Won Are Also Charged With Misappropriation Of Over $622,000 Of Customer Funds

Date 25/09/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging Defendants Safety Capital Management, Inc. (Safety) and GNS Capital, Inc. (GNS), both doing business as FOREXNPOWER, John Won, a controlling person of GNS, and Sungmi Kang, a controlling person of both Safety and GNS, with, among other charges, fraudulent solicitation of over $1.5 million from customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency (forex) and misappropriation of over $622,000 of customer funds. Defendant Tae Hung Kang (a/k/a Kevin Kang), an officer and agent of Safety and GNS, is charged with fraudulent solicitation of customers.

US Justice Department Announces Two Banks Reach Resolutions Under Swiss Bank Program

Date 25/09/2015

The Department of Justice announced today that Migros Bank AG (Migros) and Graubündner Kantonalbank (Graubündner) have reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.  These banks will collectively pay penalties totaling more than $18 million.

EBA Recommends To The EU Commission Retention Of Maturity Ladder In The ITS On Additional Liquidity Monitoring Metrics

Date 25/09/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued an Opinion to the European Commission dissenting to its proposed amendment to remove the maturity ladder from the EBA final draft Implementing Technical Standard (ITS) on additional liquidity monitoring metrics. However, the EBA supports the proposed amendment by the European Commission with regard to the application date of the ITS from 1 July 2015 to 1 January 2016.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 39, 2015

Date 25/09/2015

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 39, 2015. 

EBA Publishes Results Of The Basel III Monitoring Exercise As Of of 31 December 2014

Date 25/09/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its eight report of the Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system. This exercise, run in parallel with the one conducted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) at a global level, allows the gathering of aggregate results on capital ratios and leverage ratio (LR), as well as on liquidity ratios - liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and net stable funding ratio (NSFR) - for banks in the European Union (EU).

CFTC Issues Order Adding The Interest Rate And Foreign Exchange Asset Classes To The Asset Classes ICE Trade Vault, LLC Intends To Serve As A Provisionally Registered Swap Data Repository

Date 25/09/2015

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that on September 22, 2015, the CFTC issued an order regarding ICE Trade Vault, LLC, a provisionally registered swap data repository, that adds the “interest rate” and “foreign exchange” asset classes to those asset classes that ICE Trade Vault, LLC intends to serve as a swap data repository pursuant to section 21 of the Commodity Exchange Act and Part 49 of the Commission’s regulations.

EBA Consults On Harmonised Definition Of Default

Date 25/09/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Guidelines specifying the application of the definition of default. The work is in line with an EBA Discussion Paper on the topic published earlier in the year which described the EBA's upcoming work on improving consistency and comparability in capital requirements. The consultation runs until 22 January 2016 and the EBA is also asking the public for feedback on a Quantitative Impact Assessment (QIS) of the Guidelines.

CME Group And CFETS Sign Agreement On Cooperation

Date 25/09/2015

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), the major trading platform and pricing center for RMB and related products, announced today they have signed an agreement on cooperation to explore opportunities and promote each other's market infrastructure and products.