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CFTC Approves Limited-Purpose Swap Dealer Designation for State Street Bank and Trust Company
December 20, 2013--The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) today approved an Order granting a limited purpose swap dealer (SD) designation to State Street Bank and Trust Company (SSBT) with respect to its activities in foreign exchange products that are swaps (FX Products),
marking the second time that a limited-purpose SD designation order has been granted.
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Source: CFTC.gov
S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes To The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
Deletions From The S&P/TSX Preferred Share Indices
December 20, 2013--S&P Dow Jones Canadian Index Services will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:
Industrial Alliance Insurance & Financial Services Inc. (TSX:IAG) has announced its intention to redeem for $CDN 25.00 cash per share all of the outstanding shares of its 6.20% Non-Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset Class A Preferred Shares,
Series 'C' (TSX:IAG.PR.C). The shares of this issue will be removed from the S&P/TSX Preferred Share Laddered Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, December 31, 2013.
Great-West Lifeco Inc. (TSX:GWO) has announced its intention to redeem for $CDN 25.00 cash per share all of the outstanding shares of its 6.00% 1st Preferred Shares, Series 'J' (TSX:GWO.PR.J). The shares of this issue will be removed from the S&P/TSX Preferred Share Laddered Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, December 31, 2013.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Canadian Index Services
US stocks finish higher on the week, with Dow and S&P at records
December 20, 2013--U.S. stocks climbed on Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 scoring record closes, after data had the U.S. economy growing faster-than-projected in the third quarter, increasing optimism about the economic outlook.
"No one is taking all the chips off the table with two weeks left," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Money managers in November could have easily closed out their year and had "a great December in Aruba and they didn't," he added.
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Source: CNBC
Simple Alternatives Hires ETF Guru Bond
December 20, 2013--Don't let the name fool you: he may be a Bond, but H. Bruce Bond's expertise is ETFs and he's bringing that expertise to alternative investment manager Simple Alternatives.
Bond will also become a minority shareholder in the Ridgefield, Conn.-based mutual fund manager that focuses on liquid alternative strategies.
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Source: Fin Alternatives
Nasdaq Price System May Take Years for Structured Note Progress
December 20, 2013--Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said it may take years for its Mutual Fund Quotation Service to make "measureable progress" in getting banks to list daily values for their structured notes.
Nasdaq, the second-largest operator of U.S. stock exchanges, hasn't added any U.S. structured notes more than a month after announcing that the securities were eligible for listing, according to a review of its website.
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Source: Bloomberg
NYSE Euronext sells 5.65 lakh MCX shares
December 19, 2013-- Global exchange giant NYSE Euronext today offloaded 5.65 lakh shares of India's premier commodity bourse MCX for an estimated Rs 24 crore.
According to information available with the bourses, NYSE Euronext sold 5.65 lakh shares of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) through the open market route.
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Source: Economic Times
ISE Bid for S&P, Dow Jones Indexes Rejected by U.S. Judge
December 19, 2013--International Securities Exchange Holdings Inc. lost a second lawsuit over the Chicago Board Options Exchange's exclusive license to list options based on the Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones indexes.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan yesterday threw out the case, citing ISE's loss of what he called an identical lawsuit in Illinois state courts, where the company was a defendant.
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Source: Bloomberg
Canadian regulators ramp up reform of derivatives blamed in financial crisis
December 19, 2013--It's been a busy week for Canadian regulators as they roll out new rules designed to meet global regulatory reform in the area of derivatives trading.
On Thursday, the Canadian Securities Administrators proposed a model for central counterparty clearing of over-the-counter derivatives. The new system, if implemented in its current form, will determine which derivatives are subject to central clearing.
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Source: Financial Post
SEC May Target Exchange-Traded Notes Next in Push to Simplify
December 19, 2013--A regulatory push to make complex securities easier to understand could change how banks disclose risks for exchange-traded notes for the first time since they began trading in 2006.
Lenders may not be adequately explaining to investors how they value ETNs, Amy Starr, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's capital markets trends office in Washington, said at an industry conference last week. ETNs, which combine bank debt and derivatives, trade on exchanges and are tied to assets from gold and stocks to volatility indexes.
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Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Maintain Broad Fixed Income Exposure while Managing Interest Rate Risk
Zero and Negative Duration ETFs Track Barclays Aggregate and BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Interest Rate Indexes
December 18, 2013--WisdomTree (NASDAQ: WETF), an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") sponsor and asset manager, today announced the launch of its Rising Rates ETF Solution Suite on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
The ETFs combine widely followed fixed income strategies with targeted U.S. Treasury exposures to achieve specific durations in order to help manage interest rate risk.
Source: WisdomTree
