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What price regulatory compliance?

The US banking industry has been inundated with a set of mandatory changes such as Basel II, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Patriot Act, which, responded to individually, represent a significant portion of an organisation's change budget. Dai Bedford,…

Geopolitical futures: The politics of betting

Using markets to forecast political events may not be as strange an idea as it seemed in July, when a terrorism futures scheme collapsed. But there is still scepticism as to whether such an approach would be ethical or effective.

Etrade adds CME foreign exchange futures

Retail brokerage Etrade has added foreign exchange futures to its equities trading platform, through a link with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Globex platform. This brings the total number of futures contracts available via Etrade to eight.

CFTC to sue AEP over false gas trades

Ohio-based utility American Electric Power (AEP) has been charged with reporting 2,800 false natural gas trades to energy price index companies, such as Platts, and attempting to manipulate natural gas prices. The charges, levied by the US Commodity…

Clearing Bank Hannover goes into liquidation

Clearing Bank Hannover (CBH), which offered clearing services for electricity and commodity traders, has gone into liquidation and returned its banking licence to BaFin – Germany’s financial regulator.

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