WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wall Street will be required to report complex swap trades in “real time” under a final rule the U.S. futures regulator approved on Tuesday, moving to lift the veil on the murky $700 trillion market, but the agency delayed a decision on block trades until next year. The rule [...]
Site Activity
-
wrote a new blog post: Clamp on illegal futures trading 2 months ago · View
Beijing will boost efforts to crack down on illegal futures trading in a bid to avoid potential financial risks.Check out the original source here.
-
wrote a new blog post: Crop and livestock futures trading lower on Wednesday 2 months ago · View
Corn futures are trading solidly lower at midday. A broad base sell-off in commodity markets are being driven by strength in the dollar index and weakness in the stock market due to continued concern about European debt. Sharp losses [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: Swap-Trade Reports, Derivatives, Amaranth Settles, Ferrostaal: Compliance 2 months ago · View
Prices for swaps traded on so-called swap execution facilities or exchanges will be delayed for 30 minutes under a rule approved by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The commission voted 5-0 to approve a final rule for how prices for trades will be made public, which depends on the type of transaction and who is doing [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: CFTC sheds light on real-time reporting of swaps 2 months ago · View
By Christopher Doering | Reuters –
-
wrote a new blog post: CFTC Considers Rules for Reporting Swaps Trades 2 months ago · View
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering setting the reporting delay for traders to reveal prices for block trades of standardized swaps available on exchanges or so-called swap execution facilities. CFTC commissioners are scheduled to meet in Washington today to vote on final rules for “real-time” reporting of such trades, one of a number of provisions of [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: Trade Halt ‘Not a Good Start’ to Merged Bourse: Russia Overnight 2 months ago · View
December 20, 2011, 6:42 AM EST By Leon Lazaroff and Halia Pavliva Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Russia’s newly merged Micex-RTS exchange halted equity futures trading on its first day, sparking concern the Moscow bourse won’t be able to compete with global peers. Futures expiring in March on the dollar-denominated RTS index in Moscow stopped trading about 12 minutes into [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: Trade Halt ‘Not a Good Start’ to Merged Bourse: Russia Overnight 2 months ago · View
December 20, 2011, 3:03 AM EST By Leon Lazaroff and Halia Pavliva Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Russia’s newly merged Micex-RTS exchange halted equity futures trading on its first day, sparking concern the Moscow bourse won’t be able to compete with global peers. Futures expiring in March on the dollar-denominated RTS index in Moscow stopped trading about 12 minutes into [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: Pork producers ask Congress for ‘futures’ regulations 2 months ago · View
Pork producers were left high and dry when MF Global, an international futures trading firm, declared bankruptcy, and they want regulators to be sure it doesn’t happen again, representatives of the National Pork Producers Council told Congress Monday. At least 20 percent of U.S. pork producers had funds with MF Global, some of the 38,000 MF Global [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: CFTC Issues Final Order Amending the Effective Date for Swap Regulation 2 months ago · View
December 19, 2011 Washington, DC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a Final Order regarding the effective date for swap regulation. On July 14, 2011, the CFTC granted temporary exemptive relief from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act that otherwise would have taken effect on July 16, 2011, the general effective date of [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: FOCUS: Speculators Shift to Selling In U.S. Precious Metals -CFTC 2 months ago · View
(Kitco News) - Speculative traders were sellers almost across the board in precious metals, as prices had begun to turn south in U.S. futures and options, according to U.S. government data released late Friday. But the data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is only current through Dec. 13, and several market watchers said it’s possible the trend [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: U.S. market to list futures on next president 2 months ago · View
By Ann Saphir | Reuters –
CHICAGO – (Reuters) – A small Chicago futures exchange aims to be the first regulated U.S. market to offer legal betting on the outcome of a U.S. presidential election . The North American Derivatives Exchange is set to ask the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday for its stamp of approval on contracts tied [...] -
wrote a new blog post: CME’s Duffy vs MF Global’s Corzine: A question of trust 2 months ago · View
By Philip Shishkin | Reuters –
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine , the firm’s former CEO who just testified in Congress about the [...] -
wrote a new blog post: Insight: CME’s Duffy vs MF Global’s Corzine: A question of trust 2 months ago · View
By Philip Shishkin | Reuters –
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine , the firm’s former CEO who just testified in Congress about the mystery [...] -
wrote a new blog post: MF Global prober: much to do before money returned 2 months, 1 week ago · View
By Nick Brown | Reuters –
(Reuters) – There is still a lot of work to do before hundreds of millions of dollars can be returned to customers of bankrupt MF Global , the woman leading the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ‘s investigation said on Friday. CFTC Commissioner Jill Sommers , who heads up one of several probes of a massive [...] -
wrote a new blog post: Government Shutdown Averted 2 months, 1 week ago · View
By John Hudson | The Atlantic Wire –
With 27 hours to go, Congressional leaders signed off on a $1 trillion spending bill late Thursday night to avoid a government shutdown . It’s a pre-Christmas miracle! To secure the deal, Republicans agreed to address a funding shortfall at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , a key part of President Obama ‘s financial reform initiatives, [...] -
wrote a new blog post: Chilton Says Brokers Should Put Client Funds Only in U.S. Debt 2 months, 1 week ago · View
December 16, 2011, 10:24 AM EST By Silla Brush Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission should ban derivatives brokers from investing client funds in anything other than U.S. debt, commissioner Bart Chilton said. Chilton said recent changes in regulations governing client funds, approved after MF Global Holdings Ltd. filed for bankruptcy, don’t provide enough protection [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: SunGard to Provide Direct Market Access for China Index Futures Trading 2 months, 1 week ago · View
PRWeb –
SunGard is offering a direct market access (DMA) solution to help global Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFIIs) trade Chinese stock-index futures. QFIIs will be able to send orders in FIX Protocol via the SunGard Global Network (SGN) to Chinese futures brokers and use a CFFEX (China Financial Futures Exchange) version of SunGard’s GL Win [...] -
wrote a new blog post: Worst Floods in 70 Years May Prompt Thai Water Futures Trading 2 months, 1 week ago · View
December 15, 2011, 12:15 AM EST By Anuchit Nguyen Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — Thailand may start trading of water derivatives, giving investors a means of hedging against disasters after the nation’s worst floods in almost 70 years, the Securities & Exchange Commission said. The regulator is studying the possibility of introducing contracts whose value would be linked to rainfall, [...]
-
wrote a new blog post: Exclusive: Regulators know where MF Global funds went 2 months, 1 week ago · View
By Christopher Doering | Reuters –
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Regulators now have a more complete picture of money transfers in the final days of bankrupt brokerage MF Global , but must sort out which transactions were legitimate before more money can be released to customers, a top official told Reuters on Wednesday. Jill Sommers , who is heading the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ‘s [...] -
wrote a new blog post: Regulators Know Where MF Global’s $1.2 Billion Went, They Just Won’t Tell 2 months, 1 week ago · View
By Eric Randall | The Atlantic Wire –
People in Washington are pretty curious to know just how MF Global (and the rest of the industry it worked in) could lose track of $1.2 billion, but regulators looking into the matter are here to report that they know where the money is, they just aren’t telling [...] - Load More