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6 Apr 2015, 5:53 am
By Lene Powell, J.D.The CFTC charged Kraft Foods Group and its former affiliate Mondelēz Global with manipulating and attempting to manipulate the price of cash wheat and wheat futures. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 6:49 am
By Lene Powell, J.D. [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 6:56 am
By Lene Powell, J.D.Former Senator Saxby Chambliss warned a futures industry conference that “nobody is immune” from cyberattacks, however big or small the firm, and that the enemy is very sophisticated. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 6:37 am
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.One-size-fits all stock trading has disadvantaged small companies and led to a significant decline in the number of listed companies and IPOs since the late 1990s, said investment banker David Weild in a meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 7:32 am
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.A New York-based investment fund sued a group of major banks in a putative class action, alleging that they conspired to restrain trade in and manipulate the Swiss franc London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR), from 2005 through at least 2009. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 3:55 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.In an address to the Futures Industry Association in Tokyo, CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad talked about the interconnectedness of the global derivatives markets and the need for regulatory coordination on G-20 commitments. [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 12:03 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.In an action by a group of pension funds against the Bank of New York Mellon over the poor performance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) following the 2008 financial crisis, the Second Circuit held that the pension funds lacked standing to assert claims related to RMBS trusts in which they did not invest, because different concerns were implicated for the two sets of trusts. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 12:45 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.CFTC Commissioner Sharon Bowen put out a call for comment on the composition and priorities of a new committee looking at market risk, as well as nominations for committee members.The newly established Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) will examine matters of public concern to clearinghouses, exchanges, intermediaries, market makers, end-users, and the Commission relating to systemic issues that… [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 8:55 am
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 2:17 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.The Delaware Chancery court dismissed a shareholder challenge to the merger of two oil and gas companies, finding that entire fairness review was not triggered because an investment firm that controlled a third of the acquired company’s stock was probably not a controlling stockholder, and even if it were, had not engaged in a conflicting transaction. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 1:21 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 5:45 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.CFTC guidance on the cross-border application of Dodd-Frank swaps regulation has fragmented global swaps markets and risks a trade war over swaps market clearing and execution, said CFTC Commissioner J. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 7:33 pm
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.A CFTC-registered swap execution facility (SEF) has launched the first regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives, as well as a bitcoin price index. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 11:37 am
[This story previously appeared in Securities Regulation Daily.]By Lene Powell, J.D.In a conflict over whether derivatives clearinghouses may require swap data reporting to their own captive swap data repositories, the CFTC said it properly approved a CME Group rule that set forth such a requirement, and that rival depository DTCC’s assertion that the CFTC’s approval of the CME rule was “arbitrary and capricious” was wrong (DTCC Data Repository (U.S.) [read post]
2 Aug 2014, 8:34 am
By Lene Powell, J.D.Are opinions ever the stuff of Section 11 liability? [read post]
31 May 2012, 9:53 am
NFA has submitted the proposed financial requirements and accompanying interpretive notice to the CFTC for approval.This post was contributed by my colleague Lene Powell. [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 7:14 am
The study recommended an enhanced role in cost benefit analysis for the Chief Economist.In the rulemaking dissent, Commissioner O’Malia indicated that he would follow up his statement with a letter to the Director of the OMB seeking an independent review of the new rules to determine wither the rulemaking fully complies with the President’s Executive Orders and OMB guidance found in OMB Circular A-4.This post was contributed by my colleague Lene Powell [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 9:53 am
My colleague Lene Powell contributed to this post. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 9:53 am
My colleague Lene Powell contributed to this post. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 8:46 am
According to the notice, as the Commission gains further experience regarding the swaps market and market participants, it may reevaluate the scope of the contracts covered by the rule, including the definition of economically equivalent contracts.This post was contributed by my colleague Lene Powell [read post]
