Electronic Broking: March 2015 Volumes
April 7th, 2015
Average daily volume (in USD billions, single count) March YoY % change February MoM % change 12 Months ended 31 March % change 2014 2015 2015 2014 2015 US Treasury 189.7 153.9 (19%) 181.9 (15%) 158.1 163.0 3% US ...
8 Steps to Stronger Information Risk Management
April 7th, 2015
How CFOs can balance the risk/reward equation to sparks CEOs interest in information risk management decisions? Believe me, I know how hard it is to get funding to strengthen your information risk management program. Ask pretty much any CEO to find ...
ISDA Outlines Path Forward for Centralized Execution of Swaps
April 2nd, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today published a set of principles aimed at promoting regulatory consistency in the development and application of centralized trading rules for derivatives. The execution of standardized derivatives on an exchange or ...
Charles Hugh Smith
April 2nd, 2015
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of the oftwominds.com blog, #7 in CNBC’s top alternative financial sites, and eight books on our economy and society, including Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It, The Nearly Free University ...
Oil retreats from large jump as focus returns to Iran talks
April 2nd, 2015
Oil prices fell on Thursday as attention returned to nuclear talks with Iran, with the prospects for a deal and an increase in Iranian crude exports helping to keep pressure on prices. Major powers and Iran have stretched talks on Tehran’s nuclear ...
Citigroup Report Chides Law Firms for Silence on Hackings
March 31st, 2015
Every month it seems another American company reports being a victim of a hacking that results in the theft of internal or customer information. But the legal profession almost never publicly discloses a breach. The unwillingness of most big ...
ASIC issues warning about Grandegoldens
March 30th, 2015
ASIC cautions Australian investors in the retail foreign exchange industry in regard to dealing with a company named Grandegoldens Pty Ltd (ACN 080 952 245). ASIC has become aware of a website, http://www.grandegoldens.com, that is offering services in the ...
Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?
March 30th, 2015
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” But the idea that tax returns should be confidential and ...
Exchange Publishes Results of its Latest Review of Disclosure in Issuers’ Annual Reports
March 30th, 2015
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), today (Friday) published a report on the findings and recommendations from its review of issuers’ annual reports1 for the ...
CySec fines WGM Services Ltd
March 26th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) has imposed an administrative fine of €10.000 to a Cypriot Investment Firm (CIF), WGM Services Ltd for violation of the article 26(5) of the Law 144(I)-2007 which provides for the provision of ...
