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SEC Hacked
Jay Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealed on Sept. 20 that hackers gained access to the agency's EDGAR system for corporate filings and might have used the information for trading purposes.
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Pain Points
FIA is working with two other industry bodies—SIFMA Asset Management Group, which represents buyside institutions, and the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication, which develops standards for trade processing and related communications—to discuss "pain points" in post-trade processing of cleared derivatives.
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The Market Never Sleeps: The Success of Extended Trading Hours at JPX
Japan, the land of the rising sun, is home to one of the first global financial centers to open each day. But trading does not end when the sun goes down.
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Relief for Hedgers
Bank Negara Malaysia has issued a supplementary notice which provides additional hedging flexibility for participants in the crude palm oil market.
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MiFID Compliance: FIA Offers Template for Due Diligence Assessment of DEA Clients
FIA’s European E-Trading Committee, working in cooperation with three other industry trade associations, has produced a template of questions for use by investment firms providing direct electronic access to their clients.
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Chart of the Month: Mapping the Flows from SEFs to CCPs
IN 2016, THE CFTC implemented new guidelines for data reported by swap execution facilities on their trading activity.
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Enforcement Trends: CFTC Fines Bank of Tokyo for Spoofing but Rewards Bank for Cooperation
On Aug. 7, the CFTC announced a settlement with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ for engaging in "multiple acts of spoofing" in interest rate futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Commodity Exposure with an Indian Flavor
Multi Commodity Exchange of India, the country's top trading venue for commodity futures, announced an agreement in July with Thomson Reuters to launch co-branded commodity indices.
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Voice into Data
Although traders have been awash in data for years now, very little voice trading data has been susceptible to analysis. But last month, Cloud9 Technologies announced that it had cracked the code.
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Protecting Market Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks
On July 10, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore published a proposed cybersecurity bill.
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