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CFTC Orders Interactive Brokers LLC to Pay a $1.75 Million Penalty for Supervision Failures

Interactive Brokers

CFTC filed and simultaneously settled charges against Interactive Brokers LLC, a registered futures commission merchant, for failing to diligently supervise the handling of its customer accounts by not adequately preparing and configuring its electronic trading system to receive negative prices and calculate margin on April 20, 2020

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Europe’s First Bitcoin Futures, Based on ETC Group’s BTCetc Physical Bitcoin, to List on Eurex in September

Crypto ETP ETC Group

First futures contract on a Crypto ETP in Europe launching 13 September 2021. BTCE is the world’s most heavily traded Crypto ETP

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Federal Court Orders Interdealer Broker to Pay $7 Million for Deceptive Trading Practices in the FX Options Markets

CFTC manipulation

CFTC announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against defendants TFS-ICAP LLC and TFS-ICAP Ltd., interdealer brokers located in New York and London, requiring them to pay a $7 million

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F

Factor sensitivity The impact on a portfolio of assets of movements in the underlying risk parameter of an individual asset. Factor portfolio A well-diversified portfolio constructed to have a beta of 1.0 on one factor and a beta of zero on any other factors. Factoring Sale of a firm’s accounts ...

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