Following the establishment of its new enforcement division earlier this year, this week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicated it will be broadening the remit of its insider trading investigations to cover markets beyond equities. The division, which is headed by director Robert Khuzami, will be focusing its investigations on complex instruments such as derivatives as part of the regulatory community’s crackdown on hedge funds.
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Following on from the publication of its risk related papers at the end of last year (see our coverage here), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in cooperation with the Joint Forum has produced a new all-encompassing review of international financial market supervision. The review includes recommendations to introduce new data standards across regulatory jurisdictions with the aim of better tracking risk, especially in the alternatives sector, and to establish trade data repositories to capture derivatives data in particular.
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