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Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP | USA | 3 Nov 2020
On Oct. 15, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") adopted a "Final Rule"1 on a new position limits regime that covers 25 physical…
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Sefton Fross | Nigeria | 4 Aug 2020
The Nigeria currency has been under a lot of pressure in recent times, owing to decrease in export earnings due to the instability in price of crude…
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Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados | European Union, Spain | 10 Apr 2019
El universo de los fondos de inversión alternativa (FIAs) comercializados en la Unión Europea incluye diferentes tipos de entidades de inversión…
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Baker McKenzie | European Union, Singapore, USA | 10 Apr 2019
Exercising its powers under the Securities and Futures Act (SFA), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently passed the: to respectively…
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Greenberg Traurig LLP | USA | 10 Apr 2019
On March 21, 2019, an Illinois appellate court, for the first time, addressed the liability of a futures commission merchant (FCM) or broker-dealer…
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Mayer Brown | USA | 21 Feb 2019
An issuer comes to us and asks if it can link its debt security to an index. This seemingly simple question (if the index is the S&P 500 Index, for…
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Mayer Brown | Hong Kong | 18 Dec 2018
On 1 November 2018, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) issued a statement and circular that expanded its regulatory reach over…
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP | USA | 14 Dec 2018
Few price manipulation cases brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ever go to trial. The CFTC case filed against the trading…
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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 7 Dec 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) recently published a detailed primer on smart contracts. The Primer discusses their functionality…
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Ropes & Gray LLP | USA | 7 Dec 2018
In an opinion released on November 30, 2018, Federal Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan dismissed a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading…