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FINRA Releases 2014 Regulatory and Exam Priorities
January 2, 2013--The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today released its 2014 Regulatory and Examination Priorities letter which highlights significant risks and issues that could adversely affect investors and market integrity this year.
Susan Axelrod, Executive Vice President, Regulatory Operations, said, "The purpose of this letter is to provide insight to the industry on specific areas of concern for our regulatory programs in the coming year. We encourage firms to use this guidance along with their own analysis to enhance their programs as we will be examining for strong controls and robust compliance efforts in these areas."
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Source: FINRA
2013 Trading Volume Reaches New All-Time High At CBOE Futures Exchange
Fourth Consecutive Record Year
Over 40 Million Contracts Traded
Several Milestones Achieved During 2013
January 2, 2014-The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE(R)) today reported that annual trading for total exchange-wide activity and for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index(R)(VIX(R) Index)
reached new all-time highs in 2013, with several other trading records set during the year.
2013 Volume For a fourth consecutive year, exchange-wide trading volume at CFE set a new annual record.
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Source: CBOE
FERC, CFTC Sign MOUs on Jurisdiction and Information Sharing
January 2, 2014-- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) to address circumstances of overlapping jurisdiction and to share information in connection with market surveillance and investigations into potential market manipulation,
fraud or abuse. The MOUs allow the agencies to promote effective and efficient regulation to protect energy market competitors and consumers.
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Source: CFTC.gov
OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Reached 4.2 Billion in 2013 and Record Year for Futures and Stock Loan Activity
OCC cleared contract volume reached 4.2 billion contracts in 2013, representing a 3 percent increase from 2012 and the second highest year for OCC cleared contract volume to date. OCC also reported a record year for futures and stock loan activity.
January 2, 2014--OCC cleared contract volume reached 4,170,855,768 contracts in 2013, up 3 percent from the 2012 annual volume of 4,042,175,801 contracts.
OCC ended the year with cleared contract volume reaching 325,905,926 contracts in December, up 3 percent from the December 2012 volume of 317,190,974 contracts.
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SPDR(R) University 2014 ETF & Investment Outlook-Let's Get this Show on the Road 2013 ETF TRENDS visit www.statestreetspdrs.com/ to view more SEC Eliminates Ratings On Capital Rules in Nod to MF Global Collapse
The amendments will remove references to credit ratings in the broker-dealer financial responsibility and confirmations of transactions rules. New regulations will also prohibit broker-dealers from using customer securities and cash to finance their own trading, and will force them to maintain more than a dollar of highly liquid assets for each dollar of liabilities. view more A Stock Exchange Expands Its Global Reach
While the New York Stock Exchange has recently been swallowed up by the InterContinental Exchange, a company that gets most of its revenue from trading derivatives, BATS, which was founded in 2005, has been doubling down on plain-vanilla stock trading and global expansion. That steady business has quietly moved it closer to the top of the list of the largest stock exchange operators in the world in terms of the value of shares traded.
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Source: OCC
January 2, 2014--Driven by declines in economic policy uncertainty stabilization in European economic growth and continued
accommodative monetary policy, 2013 delivered double-digit returns for equity markets around the globe. In
fact, global equities are up 21% through the end of November.1
Flows into ETFs highlighted investors' comfort with taking on risk with equity ETFs pulling in close to $207 billion in net flows. The global bond market, on the other hand, fell 2% as interest rates rose.2 Even so, fixed income ETFs added $26 billion of inflows year-to-date. Looking ahead to 2014, investors are left wondering have we come too far too soon.
In aggregate, the ETF market took in an extremely healthy
$196.4 billion globally. As noted, investors added a sizable
amount of capital to equities, but were not sellers of fixed
income. However, the pace of fixed income ETF growth in
2013 was much less than through the first eleven months of
2012. Alternatives added new money as well, while currency
products experienced modest outflows. With commodities
decoupling from other risky assets, investors aggressively
reduced exposure to the tune of $39.0 billion with $37.7
billion of outflows from gold ETFs alone. Regionally, investors
sold ETFs with exposure to emerging markets and blended
economic development, while concentrating their interest in
developed market ETFs.
Source: SSgA
January 2, 2014--The Securities and Exchange Commission said last Friday it would adopt amendments to remove references to credit ratings in calculating the regulatory capital financial firms need to put behind commercial paper, debt and preferred stock, pushing forward one of the major tenets of the 2010 Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
The change appears targeted at mitigating some of the risks uncovered in the collapse of commodity trading firm MF Global in October 2011.
Source: The Street
January 1, 2014--The face of the global stock market used to be the classically proportioned exchange building on Wall Street.
In the future, it may well be a squat suburban office building in Lenexa, Kan., outside Kansas City, where BATS Global Markets is based.
Source: NY Times
December 31, 2013--This month's highlights include:
2013 ended on a down note for Latin American equities. Decreasing external demand and declining commodity prices have contributed to the pressure on the region's growth.
The S&P MILA 40 and S&P Latin America 40 declined again in December, creating a total loss of 21% and 12%, respectively, for 2013. Mexico was the single country among the S&P Latin America BMI to register a gain for the year (2%). Among sectors, technology was the lone exception with a positive return (9%).
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC
December 31, 2013--This month's highlights include:
The S&P/TSX Composite and S&P/TSX 60 added another 2% in December. Overall, Canadian equities gained 13% in 2013 with most of those gains posted in the fourth quarter.
Similar to the U.S., health care, consumer discretionary and industrials were the best performing sectors in 2013. Utilities, and most importantly materials, lagged, declining 4% and 29%, respectively.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC
December 31, 2013--This month's highlights include:
The U.S. equity market finished 2013 with another gain of more than 2% in December. During the year both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 broke records, old and new, concluding 2013 with an approximate 30% gain.
Smaller cap companies fared even better in 2013. Both the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 outperformed the S&P 500 (by 9 percentage points in the case of the latter).
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC,
