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  • ESMA Publishes Implementing Rules for MiFID II
  • Coscia Files Motion to Dismiss Criminal Spoofing Indictment
  • LedgerX Seeks CFTC Designation as a Clearinghouse and Swap Execution Facility for Bitcoin Options
  • Two Wells Fargo Entities Settle With FINRA for AML Customer Identification Program Breakdown
  • ICE Clear U.S. Alerts Clearing Members That Cash Deposits May Result in Negative Returns
  • System Failures Result in Three Firms Being Sanctioned US $145,000 by CME Group Exchanges
  • CME Explicitly Prohibits Block Trades Between Accounts With the Same Beneficial Ownership
  • CFTC Excuses CTA Members of DCMs From Recording Oral Communications; Will Not Require Other Market Participants to Link Certain Oral and Written Communications
  • Registrations of AlphaMetrix, LLC and Aleks Kins, Former CEO, Revoked by CFTC
  • Fed Grants One-Year Delay for Banks to Conform Ownership Interests With Legacy Covered Funds; Another One-Year Delay on the Horizon
  • NFA Proposes to Amend Interpretive Notice to Exclude Certain Additional Transactions From Prohibition Against Loans by Commodity Pools to CPOs and Related Entities
  • Former Managing Director of Asset Manager Prohibited by FCA From Performing Any Regulated Activity Because of Train Fare Payment Evasion