5 ways fraudsters trick investors
November 20th, 2014
Fraudsters use sleights of hand and other trickery that even magicians would be envious of. Americans lose an estimated $50 billion a year to fraud, including Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes and other types of investment fraud. “People fall for ...
Contributing Authors
October 2nd, 2014
Dr Alan Waring Dr Alan Waring has 35 years’ experience in risk management. His several books include Managing Risk (1998), co-authored with Prof Ian Glendon, Practical Systems Thinking (1996) and Corporate Risk and Governance published in May 2013. He has presented numerous conference and ...
Case closed in favor of INTL FCStone in Sentinel case
August 22nd, 2014
INTL FCStone Inc. (Nasdaq:INTL) (“the Company”) announced on March 19, 2014 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had reversed the trial court’s January 2013 decision against its subsidiary, FCStone, LLC, in the Sentinel matter. Because ...
SEC to examine alternative funds
August 13th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Commission (SEC) is examining alternative mutual funds that use strategies from hedge funds. The funds are popular to both investment advisers and the public. Net new inflows to alternative funds were $27.8 billion the first ...
Pound Bulls Face Day of Reckoning as BOE Inflation Report Looms
August 12th, 2014
This week’s economic forecasts from the Bank of England are shaping up to be decisive for the remaining sterling bulls. The pound strengthened against the euro today as investors prepared for clues from projections due in the central bank’s ...
Intercontinental Exchange acquires trading technology patents
August 7th, 2014
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced today that it has acquired intellectual property rights that relate to computerized trading strategies. The acquired intellectual property rights include U.S. Patent Numbers 7,177,833; 7,251,629; 8,498,923; ...
ICE Benchmark Administration Launches Error Policy Market Consultation
August 1st, 2014
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced that ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) is today launching a paper for consultation on a policy to provide transparency in the event that an error is ...
CFTC Says Flexibility essential to Oversee Cross-Border Swaps
July 31st, 2014
U.S. regulators need flexibility in overseeing cross-border swaps, a lawyer for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission told a federal judge as he defended the agency’s reliance on guidance rather than formal rules in a lawsuit brought by Wall Street’s ...
U.S Regulators may change rules for upstart trading
July 30th, 2014
U.S regulators may relax rules that require the fastest possible execution of securities trades, potentially helping upstart trading venue IEX Group’s plans to become a full-fledged stock exchange. IEX, described in author Michael Lewis’ book “Flash Boys: A Wall ...
Europe Stocks Fall With Russia, Commodites; Rupiah Gains
July 21st, 2014
European stocks fell and Russian equities declined for a sixth day amid mounting international condemnation of President Vladimir Putin after the downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine. Commodities dropped to the lowest since February and Indonesia’s rupiah strengthened. ...
