Below is information on a 100 Women in Hedge Funds event in San Francisco later this month. **** Underfunded and Over-solicited: How to Stand Apart to Attract ERISA Plan Assets January 31, 2012 at 6 PM San Francisco CA Due to recent underperformance, many corporate and government pension fund managers [...]

NFA Produces Compliance Webinar for Retail Forex Firms Since the CFTC passed its final rules on retail participation in off-exchange foreign currency markets back in October 2010, there has been an influx of newly registered introducing forex brokers (IBs), commodity pool operators (CPOs), and commodity trading advisors (CTAs).  On June [...]

**** NATIONAL FUTURES ASSOCIATION FOREX INVESTOR ALERT OCTOBER 18, 2010 New Forex Rules Become Effective on October 18 On August 30, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued its final rules regarding retail off-exchange foreign currency (forex) trading in the United States. The rules, which become effective on October 18, [...]

In a Notice to Members (NTM) issued today, the NFA provides guidance to certain players in the retail forex markets.  The NTM discusses some issues which the NFA has received inquiries about.  The guidance by the NFA is based on consultations with the CFTC staff. The NFA has done a [...]

(www.hedgefundlawblog.com) Overview of Forex Registration & Compliance Issues By Bart Mallon, Esq. In preparation for the implementation of the new retail forex regulations, the NFA recently conducted a retail forex registration and compliance workshop in Las Vegas at the Trader’s Expo.  The workshop covered a number of topics which the [...]

Bart Mallon, Esq. – Mallon P.C. (www.forexregistration.com) NFA Releases Notice Regarding Forex Registration As we discussed in our post yesterday about outstanding issues with retail forex regulations, the NFA posted guidance regarding the final retail forex regulations passed by the CFTC earlier this week.  In general, the notice answers a [...]

Bart Mallon, Esq. (www.forexregistration.com) NFA to Issue Guidance on Regulations Now that the CFTC has finalized the retail Forex regulations the Forex community will now set forth to figure out exactly what will be happening next.  Today I called the NFA to get clarification on a couple of items with [...]

The CFTC just released a statement by Commissioner Chilton regarding the new retail Forex regulations.  The full statement is reprinted below and can also be found here. **** “Rules to Rein in a Racket” Statement by Commissioner Bart Chilton on the Release of New Retail Forex Rules In recent years, [...]

New Regulations Effective as of October 18, 2010 The final retail Forex regulations (which requires registration for forex CTAs, CPOs and IBs) have been published in the Federal Register.  The final regulations will be effective as of October 18, 2010.  The regulations were adopted essentially as written with the execption [...]

In January 2010, the CFTC proposed rules regarding regulation of retail off-exchange foreign currency (forex) products.  It received over 9,000 comments relating to the forex rules and will start publishing final rules this fall. One component of the proposed rules requires all forex account managers and pool operators to register [...]