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Keynote Address by Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger: A Field of Dreams
… sun without protection.  But the crops standing in the row prop each other up, and their leaves offer some level of … and new offerings directed at retail traders, including proposed new business models to offer retail access to … and digest in this brave new world that slow growth seems appropriate. But the pace of technological innovation should …
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CFTC Finds Statoil ASA Attempted to Manipulate the Argus Far East Index, a Propane Benchmark, to Benefit Statoil’s NYMEX-cleared Swaps Position
… ASA Attempted to Manipulate the Argus Far East Index, a Propane Benchmark, to Benefit Statoil’s NYMEX-cleared Swaps … Index According to the Order, the Argus FEI is an index of propane prices in the Far East region published by Argus, an … organization that issues price assessments for global propane regions. In order to set the Argus FEI, Argus …
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Opening Statement, Tenth Series of Proposed Rulemakings Under the Dodd-Frank Act
… Opening Statement, Tenth Series of Proposed Rulemakings Under the Dodd-Frank Act Commissioner … Today this commission will consider its tenth series of proposed rulemakings under the Dodd-Frank Act. It has become … to hear our Chairman point out the ever growing number of proposed regulations that we have put forward for comment or …
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CFTC Files Charges in $20 Million International Binary Options and Digital Asset Fraud Scheme
… videos typically featured actors—often posing in front of props such as mansions and private jets—who falsely claimed …
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Remarks of Chairman Gary Gensler on Libor before the Global Financial Markets Association’s Future of Global Benchmarks Conference
… and adapt are fragile. One of his main points is that propping up a fragile system in the interest of maintaining …
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Remarks, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Financial Institutions and Regulation Colloquium
… outstanding. Instead of George Bailey’s honeymoon money propping up the Building and Loan, this time it was the …
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Remarks of Chairman Gary Gensler before the Institute of International Bankers
… stress, tension and change. One of his key points is that propping up a fragile system in the interest of maintaining … the cross-border application of swaps market reform appropriately covers the risk of U.S. affiliates operating … crashing back to our economy. Last July, the Commission proposed guidance addressing market participants’ …
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Remarks, “The Commodity Coaster,” before the Washington Agricultural Roundtable
… way, that’s the stimulus package to fix the salvage plan to prop up the rescue bill that will correct the bailout plan. … they are talking about doing is better than the plan some proposed: having displaced homeowners pack CEO golden … abuse or manipulation. That is why Chairman Peterson’s proposal to give us additional authority to not only obtain …
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“The Pandemic of Ponzimonium”
… You would certainly think that international banks would do proper due diligence. The point here is this: scam artists, … $953,000 from at least 54 individuals. He allegedly misappropriated at least $600,000 of that by transferring the … solicited was $24 million, and the amount allegedly misappropriated was $22 million. This is a particular concern …
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Statement of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo Regarding Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Swap Execution Facilities and Request for Comment on Post-Trade Name Give-Up
… of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo Regarding Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Swap Execution Facilities and Request … institutional traders.  Wall Street banks, hedge funds, prop shops and large energy companies have the wherewithal … formulated elsewhere, often on IBs.  Yet, IBs are not appropriate vehicles to formulate swaps transactions.  The …
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