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CFTC Issues an Exemption to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (HKSFC)
March 23rd, 2015
CFTC Issues an Exemption to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission Permitting U.S. Customers to Deal Directly with Hong Kong Brokers The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) today issued an order to Hong Kong Securities ...
Noble Group Ltd Sues Former Credit Analyst After Iceberg Reports
March 23rd, 2015
Noble Group Ltd., Asia’s largest commodity trader by revenue, sued a credit analyst it says it fired in 2013 for conspiracy to injure the company by anonymously spreading false and misleading information this year. Arnaud Vagner and a Seychelles ...
Asia stocks stall as Fed-inspired lift peters out, dollar steady
March 20th, 2015
Asian stocks stalled on Friday as Federal Reserve-inspired gains petered out, while the dollar steadied after rebounding from the shock of a surprisingly dovish U.S. central bank. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS edged down 0.1 ...
Citigroup, Barclays Close to Settling Forex Lawsuit With Private Investors
March 18th, 2015
Citigroup Inc. and Barclays PLC are expected to pay as much as $800 million combined to settle a lawsuit with investors who say the banks manipulated foreign-exchange rates, according to people close to the situation. The expected settlements would ...
Asia stocks advance before Fed, dollar treads water
March 18th, 2015
Asian stocks shook off a slow start and rose on Wednesday, led by China shares, while the dollar marked time as markets waited for the Federal Reserve‘s policy statement for clues to when U.S. interest rates will rise. Following Asia’s lead, ...
CFTC Orders ICE Futures U.S., Inc. to Pay a $3 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for Recurring Data Reporting Violations
March 17th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against ICE Futures U.S., Inc. (ICE), a designated contract market (DCM), for submitting inaccurate and incomplete reports and data to the CFTC over at least ...
Bank of Japan: Statement on Monetary Policy
March 17th, 2015
At the Monetary Policy Meeting held today, the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan decided, by an 8-1 majority vote, to set the following guideline for money market operations for the intermeeting period: The Bank of Japan will ...
GFG Market Insight – Will Gold Go Below $1,000?
March 13th, 2015
In Brief: Gold’s charts suggest this precious metal may decline below $1,100 per ounce in the near-term. If this proves true and gold’s buyers fail to step up and support gold at those levels, gold appears poised to drop quickly below ...
ASIC facilitates foreign financial service providers applying for exemptions
March 13th, 2015
ASIC is clarifying the documentation foreign financial services providers should provide to it when applying for class order exemptions to conduct business in Australia to facilitate an easier application process. In a written statement to key advisers to foreign ...
ED&F Man Said to Hire Fixed-Income Team From Interactive Brokers
March 13th, 2015
Commodity broker ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. has hired a group of fixed-income traders who left Interactive Brokers Group Inc. last year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. They joined ED&F Man last week, said two people, who ...
