SEC Chairman Christopher Cox announced this week that the agency would not seek a review of the US Court of Appeals ruling on registration of HF advisers.
The CFTC has extended until 7 September the comment period on its proposed Acceptable Practices for Exchange Governance and Conflicts of Interest.
J Michael Roebuck has joined law firm Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP as Senior Counsel.
The US CFTC has extended until 1 August 2006, the comment period on what constitutes a ‘board of trade, exchange, or market located outside the USA’.
The US CFTC is to permit the offer and sale in the USA of the Osaka Securities Exchange’s mini futures contract based on the Nikkei 225.
Commodity merchandising firm Lansing Trade Group (Lansing) is to pay USD3.4 million to settle CFTC charges relating to the attempted manipulation of the price of certain wheat futures and options contracts that were traded on the Chicago Board of Trade
The US SEC has adopted three new rules and amendments to several forms under the Investment Company Act that address "fund of funds arrangements."
Darren Sherman, chief executive of Regulatory Advisory Services and former SEC official, outlines the key implications of the overturned registration rule.
The hedge fund industry is the most competitive industry in the world, where portfolio managers are constantly struggling to identify inefficiencies in the capital markets and quickly take advantage of them before their competitors. The most extreme example of
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has revised its policy on the time-frame for the listing of new futures and option contracts by
