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Home / Articles / Governance / Reporting

CFTC rejects principled legislation in favor of piecemeal approach

Jim Leis | January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Markets work best when information is freely and universally available. Writing even more obscure laws only raises overhead costs and does little to prevent future shocks. Keep regulation simple and broad and ethical, with a great prejudice for preserving trader assets and minimizing harm inflicted by failure. [...]

Filed in: Reporting - Keywords: CFTC, Regulation, swap

Why MF Global matters

Jim Leis | December 9, 2011 · 1 Comment
Chicago old stock exchange building

Regulation and who owns what. Corzine owns his assets. But investors apparently do not own theirs. [...]

Filed in: Reporting - Keywords: CFTC, Commodity, MF Global, segregation

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