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September 3, 2010

Mr Thomas C Baxter, Jr, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, testified to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission regarding the Lehman bankruptcy: As of that Friday, there …

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September 2, 2010

Nothing happened in the financial markets today, so today the entire market update will be devoted to Canadian politics. Ain’t you lucky? But the integrity of the judicial system is important, as minority shareholders in …

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September 1, 2010

Donald C. Langevoort made a good point about trade-throughs in his paper U.S. SECURITIES REGULATION AND GLOBAL COMPETITION: Gadinis points out that U.S. and European regulation is similar in one strategy—trying to force trading interest …

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August 31, 2010

The SEC has announced that it: today issued a report cautioning credit rating agencies about deceptive ratings conduct and the importance of sufficient internal controls over the policies, procedures, and methodologies the firms use to …

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August 30, 2010

Econbrowser‘s Jim Hamilton has been busy building a database on the term structure of Treasuries. One of the byproducts is a graph of the average term of publicly held US debt: Click for big Senator …

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August 27, 2010

Regulators are seeking to ensure that their post-regulatory employment options include non-competitive alternative exchanges: The fine shows regulators are getting serious about demanding that brokerage firms hook up to all the alternative trading systems in …

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August 26, 2010

Algos gone wild!: Infinium, a household name in Chicago’s burgeoning trading community, relies on computer horsepower and quantitative models to earn razor-thin profits from short-term trading. It uses its own money to make markets and …

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