Spain’s regulator the CNMV has decided to extend a ban on short selling for an additional week and has submitted a proposal to ESMA to impose a further three month ban, effective from 1 November 2012...
American citizens who live outside of the US are increasingly considering renouncing their US citizenship as the government prepares to roll out FATCA, said the chief executive of a financial advisory firm...
Researchers have claimed that US ‘flash crash’ reforms will fail to avert another market meltdown unless they are coupled with new liquidity-based circuit breakers...
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has chosen SunGard’s Protegent compliance solution and Valdi electronic trading tools for real-time surveillance and monitoring of trading activity on the exchange...
28 August 2012Washington, DC Reporter: Mark Dugdale
Proposals that would have reformed the multi-trillion dollar US money market fund (MMF) industry were dropped after three US SEC commissioners objected to them...
Funds could invest more heavily in collateral-eligible liquid, high-quality government securities when new OTC derivatives regulations take hold worldwide...
The Nigeria Securities & Exchange Commission has approved United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Stanbic IBTC as securities lending agents for equities and bond transactions at the Nigeria Stock Exchange, according to reports...
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has launched a protocol that allows market participants to efficiently amend the ISDA Master Agreement tax provisions to address the effects of FATCA...
