Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman applauded a federal court decision today upholding a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that protects voters from disenfranchisement....
Fitch Ratings has downgraded National Bank of Greece's, Efg Eurobank Ergasias', Alpha Bank's, Piraeus Bank's and Agricultural Bank of Greece's Long-term Issuer Default Ratings...
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced the election of three renowned and well respected leaders in financial services to its Board of Director...
BATS Global Markets, a leading operator of securities markets in the U.S. and Europe, reports the BATS 1000®Index (Ticker: BATSK) was down for the third week in a&nbs...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) convened a meeting of the Government Finance Statistics Advisory Committee (GFSAC) during May 16-18, 2012 in Washington to continue discu...
Please find below the Top 20 Largest Consolidated Short Position Report Highlights. The report is produced twice monthly, effective the 15th and the end of each month. The rep...
BM&FBOVESPA registered an all-time record financial volume and number of trades today in the BOVA11 ETF, an index fund that tracks the performance of the BOVESPA Index (Ib...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today approved a notice of proposed rulemaking that would modify the CFTC’s aggregation provisions for limits on speculat...
I support the Commission’s proposed rules that, among other things, expand the exemptions relating to information sharing restrictions, expand the circumstances under wh...
Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 20 - 2012. This week on TOM MTF a total of 15.463 option contracts were traded on TOM MTF. On Thurs...
MGEX, a Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization, today announced it has received CFTC approval to expand its trading hours. Effective May 20, 2012, th...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that James P. McNamara has been named to the newly-created position of Managing Executive of the SEC’s Division ...
The Kansas City Board of Trade has received approval from the CFTC to expand electronic trading hours for the KCBT’s flagship hard red winter wheat futures and options c...
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it received CFTC approval to offer expanded electronic trading hours in its CBOT grain...
IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today announced the launch ...
ICAP plc, the world’s leading interdealer broker, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire PLUS Stock Exchange plc ("PLUS"), the smaller company equity excha...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today approved a final rule on swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements for counterparties to pre-enactment swap...
(Part 46) I support the final rule establishing swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements for pre-enactment and transition swaps, collectively called “historica...
The financial industry is set for a regulatory tsunami. We're awash with news that the SEC is taking aim directly at algorithmic trading. With a sense of regulatory inevitabil...
