Coordination Needed in Stock, Futures Oversight, Gira Says
By Nina Mehta
Published December 13 2011 Bloomberg
Consolidating oversight of equities, options and futures markets would help regulators deter trading aimed at defrauding investors or manipulating markets, a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority executive said. More coordination is needed because strategies designed to deceive may operate across asset classes, Thomas Gira, executive vice president for market regulation at Finra, said today at a meeting sponsored by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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