Comprehensive Response to the Global Banking Crisis
The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision, the oversight body of the Basel Committee…
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Stronger Capital and Liquidity Standards for Banking Firms
To read the Treasury Department’s policy statement, "Principles for Reforming the U.S. and International Regulatory Capital Framework…
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 –…
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…
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…
George W. Madison Confirmed as General Counsel
George W. Madison was confirmed yesterday by the United States Senate to serve as the Department of…