Trading & Transparency: Improving Efficiency without Sacrificing Innovation
Regulatory bodies on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for increased transparency in trading and post-trade…
Commentary
CFTC Implements New Transparency Efforts to Promote Market Integrity
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it will begin implementing new transparency efforts…
CFTC/SEC Announce Participants for Joint Meetings on Regulation Harmonization
First meeting to take place at the CFTC on September 2, 2009 and the second meeting to…
Kamakura Reports Fifth Consecutive Improvement in Global Credit Quality in August
Kamakura Corporation announced Tuesday that the Kamakura index of troubled public companies made its fifth consecutive dramatic…
Treasury, Financial System Supervisors and Regulators Issue Financial Sector Self-Assessment Reviews to IMF
Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. financial system supervisors and regulators[1][1] transmitted new financial…
CFTC Staff Allows BM&F Bovespa S.A. – Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias e Futuros (BM&F Bovespa) to Offer and Sell in the United States Its Full-Sized and Mini-Sized Futures Contracts Based on the Ibovespa Index
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Office of General Counsel today announced that it issued a no-action…
The Future of OTC Derivatives: Keeping the Business Alive
Will the over-the-counter derivatives market disappear? The death of this market would please the popular press and…
CFTC Seeks Public Comment on Requests from the NadeX for Amended DCM and DCO Orders to Trade and Clear Intermediated Contracts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is requesting public comment on requests submitted by the North American…
Patent Issued for Innovative Ops Performance and Risk Approach
Basis Point Group, LLC (BPG), a leading securities operations consulting firm, announced that the US Government Patent…
IOSCO Issues Final Regulatory Recommendations on Securitisation and CDS Market
The International Organization of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee has published Unregulated Financial Markets and Products –…