The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission will begin publishing a report that aims to add further transparency to the financial futures markets.  The report, entitled Traders in Financial Futures, builds on improvements to transparency implemented last year that disaggregated data

Almost two years since the near collapse of the global financial markets, President Barack Obama has signed into law the most sweeping regulatory reform legislation since the great depression – the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  The

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency civil action to halt a USD 81m fraud by a group of Palm Beach-based hedge funds. The SEC’s enforcement

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Sam Otto Folin (Folin), his Philadelphia-based registered investment adviser, Benchmark Asset Managers LLC (Benchmark) and its parent company, Harvest Managers LLC (Harvest) with misappropriating approximately USD8.7 million from advisory clients, friends and family

Head of Risk Top European Hedge Fund is looking to hire a Head of Risk.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order clarifying the effective date of the provisions in the swap regulatory regime established by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) as the

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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced additional charges in its insider trading case against Denver-based traders who traded on confidential information in the securities of Mariner Energy Inc. ahead of the oil and gas company’s USD3.9 billion takeover by

The leading hedge fund associations, AIMA and the MFA, each voiced their ongoing concerns over the SEC’s vote for hedge fund adviser registration. In response to th