Search Results for: U.S. regulator
CFTC opens access to Indian Futures market for U.S. customers
May 18th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an order to the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) as part of its longstanding program of regulatory deference to foreign regulatory frameworks. Through its Part 30 exemptive program the CFTC provides ...
USA Regulator ordered a penalty of more than $2.2 million for Forex fraud scheme
May 14th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Esther Salas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has entered an Order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Alcibiades Cifuentes (Cifuentes) and Jennifer Wee ...
U.S. stock futures headed lower; Euro little changed, Pound and Aussie were steady
February 5th, 2018
Asian equities fell and U.S. stock futures headed lower, extending the biggest selloff for global stocks in two years as investors adjusted to a surge in global bond yields. Shares sank across the region, with Japan’s benchmarks falling the ...
U.S Regulator Approves Exemption From SEF Registration for MTFs and OTFs Authorized Within the EU
December 11th, 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the issuance of an order exempting certain multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and organised trading facilities (OTFs) authorized within the European Union (EU) from the requirement to register with the CFTC as swap ...
The U.S. dollar bounced to a two-week top
December 4th, 2017
The U.S. dollar bounced to a two-week top on Monday and S&P futures jumped as traders marked the passage of a Senate tax bill over the weekend, a move that raises the risk of more aggressive rate hikes in ...
US to raise crowdfunding ceiling to $5 million in regulatory shake-up
October 9th, 2017
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report detailing how to streamline and reform the U.S. regulatory system for the capital markets. Treasury’s evaluation of current capital market regulations found that there are significant reforms that can be ...
DTCC repo clearing services gain regulatory approval
May 3rd, 2017
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved rule changes allowing its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary ...
Gain Capital Agrees To Acquire Client Base Of FXCM’s U.S. Operations
February 8th, 2017
Following the penalty imposed to FXCM by U.S. regulator CFTC and the announcement by FXCM for exit the U.S market, GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) (“GAIN” or “the Company”), a global provider of online trading services, announced that ...
PCAOB Enters Into Cooperative Agreement with Italian Audit Regulator
November 30th, 2016
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced that it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Italian audit oversight regulator Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB). The agreement allows for cooperation between the PCAOB ...
Russia Suspends U.S. Auditor Deloitte
October 14th, 2016
U.S auditing company Deloitte has been sanctioned by Russia‘s Federal Treasury, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. The Russian Treasury suspended Deloitte and Touche CIS from Russia’s self-regulatory Auditing Chamber of Russia, preventing the company from taking part in tenders or entering into new contracts for ...
