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High-Speed Trading Rules Coming From SEC
June 6th, 2014
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White unveiled the regulator’s most sweeping plan yet for reining in high-frequency trading and monitoring dark pools and other secretive trading practices in the world’s largest equity market. Proprietary traders who ...
Asian Stocks Rise With Ringgit; U.S., Europe Futures Gain
June 6th, 2014
Asian stocks rose for the fourth straight week and emerging-market currencies strengthened after the European Central Bank cut interest rates to fight deflation. The dollar headed for its best week since April versus the yen and U.S. and European ...
Caution reigns as traders await Mr Draghi
June 5th, 2014
The euro is steady, benchmark bond yields nudging lower and bourses are mixed as investors wait to see if the European Central Bank will introduce a package of measures designed to tackle deflation concerns and boost the bloc’s economy. ...
Yen Rebounds as Most Asia Stocks Drop With Oil Before ECB
June 5th, 2014
Japan’s yen rebounded from a one-month low while Euro Stoxx 50 Index futures were little changed before a European Central Bank monetary-policy announcement. Most Asian stocks retreated with oil, and platinum dropped amid talks to end a South African ...
FINMA announces “Accounting – banks” circular
June 4th, 2014
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA has published today the definitive version of the new circular “Accounting – banks”. The new circular is based on the Banking Ordinance that has been adopted and fully revised by the Federal ...
SEC Charges Bitcoin Entrepreneur With Offering Unregistered Securities
June 4th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the co-owner of two Bitcoin-related websites for publicly offering shares in the two ventures without registering them. An SEC investigation found that Erik T. Voorhees published prospectuses on the Internet and ...
The Perils of Silos in Risk Management
June 4th, 2014
Silos, or autonomous units, can exist in most organizations. It’s no surprise that risk management can be divided into “siloed” functions, and it’s commonly done. Among their advantages: Silos can enable risk management specialization by business unit. For example, ...
U.S. Government Bonds Extend Selloff
June 4th, 2014
The roaring Treasury bond market has come to a screeching halt. Investors cashed in their chips out of the U.S. Treasury bond market on Tuesday for a fourth straight session as concerns grew that the price rally that accelerated ...
ASIC obtains extension of injunction freezing bank accounts of Sino Australia Oil and Gas Limited
June 3rd, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained orders in the Federal Court in Melbourne extending an injunction restraining Sino Australia Oil & Gas Ltd (SAO), an ASX-listed entity, from transferring company funds from two accounts it holds ...
SEC Charges Operator With Defrauding Bond Investors
June 3rd, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a charter school operator in Chicago with defrauding investors in a $37.5 million bond offering for school construction by making materially misleading statements about transactions that presented a conflict of ...