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CFTC: Following A Bench Trial, Federal Court In Florida Orders Defendants William And Gregory Center To Pay Millions In Restitution And Civil Monetary Penalties For Operating A $28.4 Million Ponzi Scheme
Date 23/05/2013
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Daniel Hurley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, following a bench trial on April 24, 2013, entered a Final Judgment Order, ordering Defendant William Center, of Richmond, Virginia, to pay restitution of $455,430 individually and $8,652,140.41 jointly and severally with Trade, LLC, as well as a $4 million civil monetary penalty. Defendant Gregory Center, of McLean, Virginia, was ordered to pay $265,661.14 in restitution and a $2 million civil monetary penalty.
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Toronto Stock Exchange And TSX Venture Exchange Travel To Latin America - The Exchanges To Share Insight On The Canadian Capital Market
Date 23/05/2013
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) will visit three Latin American countries starting today in Brazil with further stops in Mexico and Peru.
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CBOE Begins Disseminating New Volatility Index On CME Group's 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Options Contract
Date 23/05/2013
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and CME Group (CME) have announced that, as part of an agreement between the exchanges, CBOE today began disseminating values for a new volatility benchmark index using futures options data on CME Group's 10-year U.S. Treasury note contract. The CBOE/CBOT 10-year U.S. Treasury Note Volatility IndexSM (ticker symbol VXTNYSM ) is the first volatility index based on U.S. government debt to be calculated and disseminated by CBOE.
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SEC Charges Institutional Shareholder Services In Breach Of Clients' Confidential Proxy Voting Information
Date 23/05/2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged charged Rockville, Md.-based proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) for failing to safeguard the confidential proxy voting information of clients participating in a number of significant proxy contests.
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Athens Exchange: Changes In The Composition Of The Athex Indices
Date 23/05/2013
Following the recent share capital increase of the company «National Bank of Greece » the investability weight of the company?s shares to all ATHEX indices, changes to 17% from 100%.
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Program Trading Averaged 25.8 Percent Of NYSE Volume During May 13-17
Date 23/05/2013
The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms' executed volume from NYSE's orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for May 13-17.
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Fourth Meeting of the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group For Europe
Date 23/05/2013
Today, the Financial Stability Board hosted the fourth meeting of the FSB Regional Consultative Group for Europe under the co-chairmanship of Gaston Reinesch, Governor, Banque centrale du Luxembourg and Tom Scholar, Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury, United Kingdom, in Basel, Switzerland.
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Bloomberg Chat-Based FX Trading Tool Offers Proven Efficiencies - IB Dealing Enables FX Trade Negotiation, Execution And STP For All Bloomberg Subscribers
Date 23/05/2013
To meet the growing needs of foreign exchange (FX) clients around the world, Bloomberg today unveiled Instant Bloomberg (IB) Dealing, a cost-effective, chat-based platform for FX traders. IB Dealing is already being used by more than 100 global banks across 46 countries for trade negotiation, execution and straight-through processing (STP).
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EnterNext®, NYSE Euronext’s New SME Marketplace, Goes Live
Date 23/05/2013
NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced the opening of EnterNext®, its marketplace for SMEs. This new subsidiary is dedicated to companies that have a capitalisation of under €1 billion and already covers over 750 SMEs listed on the regulated market of NYSE Euronext and on NYSE Alternext. With a bold strategy and a NYSE Euronext proven capacity to deliver, EnterNext® has been designed to facilitate the financing requirements and development of European SMEs that operate regionally, nationally and internationally.
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BM&FBOVESPA Has Record Number Of Trades In BM&F Segment
Date 23/05/2013
BM&FBOVESPA had a record 199,867 trades in the BM&F segment yesterday.