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The CFTC Proposes "Guidance" for Derivatives Markets on Listing Voluntary Carbon Credit Derivatives

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In Short - The Background: As voluntary carbon credits ("VCCs") have grown in popularity, questions about their integrity and quality have arisen for investors and among regulators and lawmakers. For this reason, many have...more

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New CFTC Enforcement on Carbon Markets Misconduct

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Introduction - On June 20, 2023, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") Whistleblower Office, a unit of the agency's Division of Enforcement ("DOE"), issued a rare alert, soliciting tips about...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.8.2021 - Embattled OCC Nominee Omarova Withdraws From Consideration

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Saule Omarova, the White House’s pick to helm the OCC, has withdrawing from consideration for the post, saying it was “no longer tenable” for her to seek the position following withering attacks from the banking industry and...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.28.2021 | Top Story: J&J Strikes Deal to End NY Opioid Suit for $230 Million

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Johnson & Johnson has reached a deal with NY AG Letitia James to settle the state’s opioid case against the company for a reported $230 million.  The deal comes “as negotiations intensify with the company and three drug...more

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JONES DAY TALKS®: Carbon Markets are Booming, and Regulators are Watching

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Efforts by government agencies, companies, and investors to limit the effects of climate change continue to influence activity in the financial markets. Interest in carbon markets, where emission credits are purchased and...more

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CME Group to Launch a Global Emissions Offset Futures Contract

CME Group has announced plans to launch a carbon futures contract intended to offer a transparent, standardised and market-based solution to manage global emissions risk. ...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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We’ll say this—it’s not been dull over in the UK. There’s Wimbledon, the march of the Three Lions, oh, and also, less than a day after Brexit secretary David Davis and a key associate quit her government, PM May’s foreign...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The emissions cheating scandal that recently cost VW $4.3 billion and a mess of criminal indictments isn’t, it seems, confined to the Germans. We heard months ago about a similar probe into Mitsubishi, and yesterday we...more

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The headline a few days ago was the arrest of VW exec Oliver Schmidt during an ill-advised trip to Miami last week. But the DOJ also indicted five other top executives over their role in VW’s emissions cheating scandal. No...more

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California Federal Court Holds that U.S. Securities Laws Apply to Sponsored, Unlisted ADRs

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held on January 4, 2017 that the federal securities laws apply to U.S. transactions in sponsored, but unlisted, American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) for a...more

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Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.21.16

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We reported last week on the additional $2 billion that Uber took in through the leveraged loan market. Andrew Ross Sorkin gives us an interesting reason for why Uber’s still got its hat in hand ($15 billion cash in hand and...more

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