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28 Jun 2010, 3:25 pm by Lyle Denniston
First Derivative Traders (09-525) tests whether an investment adviser to a mutual fund may be held liable for securities fraud, if the fund itself makes misleading statements in its public reports about trading practices. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 11:38 am by Lindsey Williams
It places brokers, traders, and bankers in a position to report fraud, keep the markets honest, and save investors hundreds of billions of dollars. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 10:39 am by Kim Krawiec
  That France's second-biggest bank faced potential bankruptcy in January 2008 because of a single trader’s €50bn ($61bn) of unhedged positions, the unwinding of which impacted markets around the world, seems now to barely register outside of France (where Kerviel continues to command a cult-like Robin Hood status). [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 6:14 am
 The price of farm milk is determined by "the price of cheddar cheese blocks" on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and "a few Mercantile traders can influence milk prices by selling or buying cheese at strategic moments", according the Sentinel. [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 11:45 am by law shucks
. // The investigation is primarily focused on a high-frequency-trading firm’s hire of a senior SEC official for the trader’s compliance group, but law firms are within scope as well. [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 3:00 am by LindaMBeale
  Regulators MAY increase capital requirements or limit the size of a trader's swap book, but as we have seen in this current crisis, regulators may be reluctant to impose discretionary limits not required in the legislation. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 9:22 am by James Hamilton
Because the derivatives market was considered too big and too interconnected to fail, taxpayers had to foot the bill for bad bets that linked thousands of traders and created a web in which one default threatened to produce a chain of corporate and economic failures worldwide. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 7:17 am
European Federation of Energy Traders Releases New Master DES LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement (EFET)Greece Explores Floating LNG Options (ICIS Heren) [Subscription required] [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 6:39 am by Kim Krawiec
Soc Gen ignored major warning signs regarding the size and scope of Kerviel’s trades, and ultimately was complicit in the risky activities of Kerviel and other traders, throwing aside risk management in the pursuit of trading profits. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 6:33 am by By DEALBOOK
The trial of Jérôme Kerviel, accused of setting off nearly 5 billion euros in losses at the French bank Société Générale, ended Friday with judges and prosecutors conceding that a two-year investigation and three weeks of court hearings had left them no wiser about what had ultimately motivated the former trader to make his enormous, unauthorized bets. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 4:39 am by By DEALBOOK
Hall, the former Citigroup energy trader whose proposed $100 million bonus created an uproar about excessive Wall Street compensation, posted a drop of more than 10 percent last month, The Wall Street Journal reported. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 1:31 pm by Rich Vetstein
Traders are taking that to mean the economic recovery is at a slower pace than previously thought. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 11:08 am by Page Perry LLC
“Wall Street has always been very skilled at getting around rules, and this law will be no exception,” Frank Partnoy, a professor of law at the University of San Diego and a former trader at Morgan Stanley, was quoted as saying. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 12:25 pm by Dr. Elliot J. Feldman
The Obama Administration has no trade policy and, as institutions have been functioning and trade laws have been interpreted for more than a decade, it can’t. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 7:06 am by Kim Krawiec
  PricewaterhouseCoopers was even more explicit about the role played by a corporate culture of non-compliance at NAB, where a group of four currency options traders regularly breached position and risk limits, and concealed their activity through the smoothing of profits and losses (previously discussed here): Our investigations indicate that the culture fostered the environment that provided the opportunity for the Traders to incur losses, conceal them and escape… [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 6:45 am
The skewed options ratio suggests traders are rebalancing their portfolios in anticipation of a price shift. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 3:48 am by By DEALBOOK
A former trader at AKO Capital, a London hedge fund, must pay about $421,000 in fines and restitution after being the first person to plead guilty to insider-trading charges in the United Kingdom, Bloomberg News reported. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 1:30 am by INFORRM
In Alithia Publishing Company and Constantinides v Cyprus (Judgment of 22 May 2008) the applicants had written and published twelve articles alleging that the Minister of Defence had been involved in a conspiracy to misappropriate public funds with armaments traders. [read post]