Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
Forcerank’s premise was simple: “fantasy sports for stocks”. Forcerank runs mobile phone games where players predict the order in which stocks would perform relative to each other. In its original form, if a player did well he or she won points and could some receive a cash prize. Forcerank kept 10 percent of the entry … Read more »
One of the strange splits in US financial regulation is that many swap and derivatives are regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission instead of the Securities and Exchange Commission. I think of the CFTC, I think of Trading Places and with the SEC I think of Wall Street. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has … Read more »
With this summer’s passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, it’s Europe’s turn to address financial regulation. This morning, the European Commission released its Proposal for Regulation on OTC Derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories. The proposal seems to look a lot like the Dodd-Frank’s approach by creating a central trade … Read more »