Earlier this year, FINRA published its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter to provide the industry with insights into the areas FINRA plans to review in its 2017 exams and to assist financial firms with reviewing and strengthening their own supervisory and compliance systems.  The letter states five priority areas the authority will focus on […]

Amendments to CME Rule 432 (General offenses) went into effect February 16, 2017. These amendments expand upon the protective measures previously found in CME Rule 432. The amended rule now extends liability for fraud and bad faith (432.B.1); manipulative devices, schemes, and artifices to defraud (432.H.); and delivery of false, misleading or inaccurate crop or […]

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (Citi) settled with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on January 19, 2017 over the CFTC’s allegations that five traders at Citi “spoofed” the U.S. Treasury futures markets and that Citi failed to supervise the trading activity of its employees.  Pursuant to the Order, Citi must pay a fine of $25,000,000 […]

Last June British voters shocked the world by answering affirmatively to a referendum that, if acted on, would remove the United Kingdom from the European Union. The political and economic implications of this decision were and still remain largely unknown, but we outlined some of the possibilities in our initial post about this topic over […]