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1 month ago | 
pwmnet.com | Kian Sarreshteh |Jasper van Brakel |Elisa Trovato |Dan Davis
With a new administration in the White House, financial services in the US is entering a transformative stage, tempered by concerns about the president’s own crypto projects. With his finger on the pulse of public opinion, Donald Trump and his wife Melania have not been slow to launch their own meme coins. His fans have been watching them closely, many not realising there is no real value attributed to these coins.
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2 months ago | 
pwmnet.com | Dan Davis |Alexander Kim |Nigel Green |Elisa Trovato
The regulatory framework will determine the success or failure of an often-controversial digital asset class with the potential to transform portfolio management. Speaking as the then-Republican presidential nominee at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee in July 2024, Donald Trump pledged to make America “the crypto capital of the planet and bitcoin superpower of the world”. Following his election victory, bitcoin reached record highs above $100,000.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Susan Light |Gary DeWaal |Dan Davis |Carl Kennedy
Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is
a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments
potentially affecting financial markets and funds.
To read more issues of Katten's Financial Markets and Funds
Quick Take, please click here.
By Susan Light
FINRA filed a rule amendment with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) on January 2 to propose amending FINRA Rule 3240,
Borrowing From or Lending to Customers (SR-FINRA-2024-001).
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Susan Light |Gary DeWaal |Dan Davis
Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds. To read more issues of Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take, please click here. Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be!By Susan LightFINRA filed a rule amendment with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 2 to propose amending FINRA Rule 3240, Borrowing From or Lending to Customers (SR-FINRA-2024-001).
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
quickreads.ext.katten.com | Gary DeWaal |Dan Davis |Carl Kennedy
Emphasizing its broad authority over fraud solely in connection with commodities – not just fraud in connection with derivatives referencing commodities – the Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled an enforcement action against Freepoint Commodities LLC on December 14, 2023, where it alleged that the firm illegally traded fuel oil based on non-public information obtained through “corrupt payments” in violation of an applicable provision of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 USC Sec.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
katten.com | Susan Light |Gary DeWaal |Dan Davis |Carl Kennedy
Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds.
To read more issues of Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take, please click here.
Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be!
By Susan Light
FINRA filed a rule amendment with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 2 to propose amending FINRA Rule 3240, Borrowing From or Lending to Customers (SR-FINRA-2024-001).
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
quickreads.ext.katten.com | Carl Kennedy |Gary DeWaal |Stephen Morris |Dan Davis
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed to lessen a blanket restriction on the investment of customer funds in all non-United States sovereign debt instruments that was imposed on future commission merchants (FCMs) and derivative clearing organizations (DCOs) following the dramatic collapse of MF Global in October 2011, in a newly issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
ebroky.com | Dan Davis
South Africa are the 5/6 favourites to win Pool B at the Rugby World Cup with Ireland rated at 6/5 and Scotland 9/1… while underdogs Romania are 250/1 longshots to qualifySouth Africa are the favourites to win Pool B at the Rugby World Cup, with Sky Bet rating them at 5/6 ahead of their opener against Scotland on Sunday. The reigning world champions, and three-time winners, have been tipped by many to reach the latter stages of the tournament again in their bid to defend their crown.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Dan Davis
A source said the man took a mattress and laid it across the rail line where he invited his lover to what became their last night. A Beitbridge man and his lover were yesterday fatally crushed by a goods train on the railway line they had turned into a love nest some 60 kilometres north of Beitbridge along the track to Rutenga. The man employed by Bitumen World was off duty when he decided to cool off with his lover at a makeshift bedroom on the rail line where the tragedy occurred.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Gary DeWaal |Dan Davis |Adam Bolter
Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds. To read more issues of Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take, please click here.
