Hacking Alert for Google Chrome User

BREAKING REPORT: Google warns billions of Chrome users that BROWSER HAS BEEN HACKED in 'high threat' attack… — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) April 28, 2022 CONSUMER TECH Google Issues Warning For Billions Of Chrome Users https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2022/04/27/google-chrome-new-vulnerabilities-high-threat-level-update-chrome-now/?sh=9d8bfb557f59

SEC Alert! SEC Charges Archegos and its Founder with Massive Market Manipulation Scheme Multiple Archegos Executives Charged with Misleading Counterparties

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Sung Kook (Bill) Hwang, the owner of family office Archegos Capital Management, LP (Archegos), with orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that resulted in billions of dollars in losses. The SEC also …

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FICC Alert! Proposed rule to amend the Mortgage-Backed Securities Division Clearing Rules to move certain Deterministic Risk Component items (Mark-to-Market items, cash obligation items and accrued principal and interest) from the Required Fund Deposit calculation to Cash Settlement, and more.

by Dismal-Jellyfish This looks, to my non-lawyer brain, to be a way to reduce the member’s margin requirement. These mark-to-market items and others are moved from “Required Fund Deposit” so they won’t count against the margin requirement, as stated here: …

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SEC Alert! Under the proposed rules, any market participant that engages in activities as described in the rules would be a “dealer” or “government securities dealer” and become members of a self-regulatory organization (SRO), and comply with federal securities laws and regulatory obligations.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Specifically, today’s release proposes further defining a dealer and government securities dealer as one that engages “in a routine pattern of buying and selling securities that has the effect of providing liquidity to other market participants” by, for example: …

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DTCC Alert! Is anyone else curious about the DTCC’s Sponsored Repo program allows cash to move from cash providers to investment funds/dealers in a manner that both reduces balance sheet costs and counterparty risk?

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source DTCC Announcement So I am was covering the additions to the Standing Repo Facility this morning and in the process came across the source links above about the DTCC’s Sponsored Repo facility. tl:dr it appears traditional repo is balance sheet …

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SEC Alert! The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose changes that would remove the references to credit rating agencies from existing exceptions provided in Rule 101 and Rule 102 of Regulation M.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Proposed Rule (95 pages) Source The Commission proposes to replace the credit-rating requirement included in Rule 101’s exception, which is available to distribution participants and their affiliated purchasers, with requirements that the nonconvertible debt securities and nonconvertible preferred …

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Federal Reserve Alert! The following have been added to the list of Standing Repo Facility Counterparties, effective March 22: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch and Natixis New York Branch.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source Standing Repo Facility (SRF) counterparties each expressed an interest to be an eligible SRF counterparty under the criteria published by the New York Fed. Inclusion on this list simply means that, should the New York Fed conduct …

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Stagflation Alert! Moody’s, On Global Economic Outlook: We Are Reducing Global Economic Growth Projections And Raising Inflation Forecasts.

MOODY'S, ON GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: WE ARE REDUCING GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH PROJECTIONS AND RAISING INFLATION FORECASTS. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) March 17, 2022 The y/y change in US rail volumes demonstrate freight downturns The Economic slowdown is here = stagflation UBS …

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ALERT! Lock Your Car’s Gas Cap! Residents Claim Thieves Are Siphoning Gas From Their Cars

Residents across the Los Angeles area are claiming thieves are siphoning gas out of their cars amid the record-high gas prices. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/03/10/residents-claim-thieves-are-siphoning-gas-from-their-cars/ This will only get worse and it will spread across the US. If you can’t lock your car’s …

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NATO Has Put More Than 100 Fighter Jets On “HIGH ALERT,” And 120 Allied Ships Are UNDERWAY

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1496160792915361800 https://twitter.com/RIYATRump/status/1496163377755787267 https://twitter.com/all__the__news/status/1496191826109235203 US Defense Secretary: We call on Putin to avoid the option of all-out war https://t.co/NLSqm8NYGI — EndGameWW3 🇺🇸 (@EndGameWW3) February 22, 2022 MILITARY CONVOY OF MORE THAN 100 TRUCKS WITH SOLDIERS SEEN ON ITS WAY TOWARDS UKRAINIAN …

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