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Reserve Bank of Australia

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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is responsible for monetary policy in Australia. Policy decisions are made by the Reserve Bank Board, with the objective of achieving low and stable inflation over the medium term. 
In 1911, legislation established the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. In 1959, this original body corporate was preserved as the Reserve Bank of Australia in legislation, specifically to carry on the central banking functions; at that same time, the commercial and savings banking functions were transferred into a new institution, which carried on the old name of Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Other major roles of the RBA include maintaining financial system stability and promoting the safety and efficiency of the payments system. The Bank is an active participant in financial markets, manages Australia's foreign reserves, issues Australian currency notes and serves as banker to the Australian Government. The information provided by the Reserve Bank includes statistics on interest rates, exchange rates and money and credit growth and a range of publications on its operations and research.
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Category:Banks
Category:Central Banks
Residual interest

For a futures commission merchant (FCM) or derivatives clearing organization (DCO), residual interest refers to the FCM or DCO's own, or "proprietary" funds held in segregated or secured accounts.
A rule proposed by the CFTC in November 2012 would require FCMs and DCOs to determine a necessary level of excess funds that the firm should hold in segregated or secured accounts to ensure against becoming undersegregated or undersecured, and to maintain residual interest in excess of the sum of all margin deficits. For more information on the proposed rule, visit the affiliated page in MarketsReformWiki. 
==John Lothian News Special Report: Residual Interest, February 2013==
CFTC Proposal Poses “Monumental” Challenge to FCMs
A rule proposed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) designed to strengthen safeguards for customer deposits at futures commission merchants (FCMs) is threatening to overhaul the futures brokerage system.
The proposed “residual interest” provision introduced last fall, and discussed in a CFTC roundtable on February 5, would require substantial increases in margin buffers by FCMs.
The meeting led by Robert Wasserman, chief counsel of the CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk, included panelists Mike Dawley of Goldman Sachs and FIA chairman and Kim Taylor, CME Clearing president who argued that the increased margin requirements under the proposal are substantial. Dawley said the rule, if passed in its current form, would be “one of the most monumental events” in his 30 years in the industry.
John Lothian News has put together a special report on this critical issue. The deadline for comments on this proposed rule is February 15, 2013.
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Resolution Trust Corporation

The Resolution Trust Corporation was created by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989. It was designed to act as the federal government's agent in disposing of insolvent savings and loans (S&Ls). Many of these S&Ls were declared insolvent by the Office of Thrift Supervision as a consequence of the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s.
The Resolution Trust Corporation was the third special government corporation created to dispose of massive quantities of troubled real estate.
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Category:Real Estate
Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer

An RFED is an individual or organization which acts, or offers to act, as a counterparty to an off-exchange foreign currency transaction with a person who is not an eligible contract participant and the transaction is either:
*a futures contract, an option on a futures contract or an option contract (except options traded on a securities exchange); or
*offered or entered into, on a leveraged or margined basis, or financed by the offeror, counterparty or person acting in concert with the offeror or counterparty on a similar basis. 
Registration is required unless the individual or organization is exempt from registration as an RFED pursuant to Sections 2(c)(2)(B) or 2(c)(2)(C) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
All RFEDs must be Members of NFA in order to conduct business with the public. Additionally, an RFED is required to have at least one principal that is also an approved Forex Associated Person.
== References ==
Category:Currency Trading
Category:Types of Dealers
Category:Dealers
Reto Francioni

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Reto Francioni is the former chief executive officer of Deutsche Boerse AG, a position he took over on Nov. 1, 2005. He also served as head of the management board. He retired on May 31, 2014. His contract officially ended on Oct. 31, 2016, but he turned 60 before then, which is the age of mandatory retirement for banking executives in Germany. 
Francioni served as an interim chief financial officer of Deutsche Boerse AG from March 2007 to May 2007. He also served as chief executive officer of SWX Swiss Exchange during some of that time. He was reappointed as CFO in 2012.
Francioni made headlines in February 2011 when it was announced that Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext were in advanced talks to merge. Francioni would have become chairman of the global behemoth. However, in January 2012, European antitrust examiners recommended against the deal, which would have created the world's largest exchange.
On March 12, 2013, the board of directors of UBS announced that it would nominate Francioni for election to the Board at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on May 2, 2013. 
== Background ==
Francioni worked for UBS in Zurich from 1981 to 1984 and for Credit Suisse in New York and Zurich from 1985 to 1988. He was also deputy chairman of the management at Association Tripartite Bourses (ATB) from 1988 to 1992 and was a member of the lead team for the entire EBS (Elektronische Börse Schweiz) project there. 
Before his first move to Deutsche Boerse, Francioni was a member of management in the corporate finance division at Hofmann-La Roche from 1992 to 1993. He worked in the securities industry before going to Deutsche Borse, where he was credited with developing the German group's much praised electronic trading platform, Xetra. He has also served as a member of supervisory board of Berliner Effektengesellschaft AG since Jan. 29, 2001. 
Francioni co-authored a trading textbook, Equity Markets in Action, with Robert Schwartz, a New York-based finance professor.
== Education ==
Francioni holds a degree and subsequent doctorate in law from Zurich University.
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Category:Deutsche Boerse
Category:Deutsche Boerse
Category:Exchange CEOs
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Return

Return is all income - including dividends, appreciation and interest - generated by an investment or asset over a specified time period and can be expressed as a total or net figure. Returns relative to the cost of investment can be measured by a range of calculations depending on the industry, although return on investment is probably the most common.
Return can be calculated in several ways including total return, which records all income including appreciation, dividends and interest and net return, which subtracts all the expenses generated by the return including taxes. 
== Everything's Relative == 
Return on investment (ROI) is a popular measure of investment performance because it is considered both versatile and simple. It is usually calculated by dividing the investment's return by its cost, usually expressed as a percentage or a ratio. However, ROI can be misleading if the investor doesn't know exactly how the inputs were defined or calculated.
More complicated is the Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR), which records the additional return an investment returned above that expected by market movements only. It is often used in takeover studies where shareholders are paid a premium when their company is taken over.
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Category:Definitions
Category:Market Terms
Reuben Jeffery III

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Reuben Jeffery III is chief executive of Rockefeller Financial and a board member of the firm, which offers wealth and investment management services to high net-worth individuals and others. He officially assumed the role on September 7, 2010 and is responsible for oversight of the firm and its business units which include: Rockefeller Wealth Advisors, Rockefeller Asset Management, Rockefeller Capital Partners, and Rockit Solutions. 
Jeffery previously served as a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C. and U.S. Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs from 2007 to 2009. He was nominated to the position by President Bush on Apr. 16, 2007, and confirmed by the Senate on June 21, 2007. Jeffery was sworn into office by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on June 27.
== Background ==
On March 11, 2008, he was also appointed State Department’s coordinator for International Energy Affairs.
Jeffery was chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from July of 2005 to June of 2007.He served on the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
Jeffery also at one time served as the special assistant to the president and senior director for international economic affairs at the National Security Council. Jeffery also acted as the representative and executive director of the Coalition Provisional Authority Office (CPA) at the Pentagon, after having served as an advisor to Ambassador Bremer in Iraq. Prior to joining the CPA in May of 2003, Jeffery was special advisor to the president for Lower Manhattan Development, where he coordinated ongoing federal efforts in support of the longer term recovery and redevelopment of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
Jeffery spent 18 years working for Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was managing partner of Goldman Sachs in Paris (1997-2001) and of the firm’s European financial institutions group (1992-1997) in London.Before joining Goldman Sachs, Jeffery was a lawyer with the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
== Education ==
Jeffery received his BA in Political Science from Yale University in 1975 and Juris Doctor and MBA from Stanford University in 1981.
== Resources ==
* Reuben Jeffery II Speeches As Under Secretary
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Category:Former CFTC Chairmen
Category:Former CFTC Officials
Category:CFTC
Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index

The Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index is a benchmark for the global commodities markets. It is designed to provide timely and accurate representation of a long-only, broadly diversified investment in commodities through a transparent and disciplined calculation methodology.
The history of the Index dates back to 1957, when the Commodity Research Bureau constructed an index composed of 28 commodities that made its inaugural appearance in the 1958 CRB Commodity Year Book. As commodity markets have evolved, the Index has undergone periodic updates.
The Index was renamed the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index in 2005 when it underwent its tenth and most recent revision - as the collaborative effort of Reuters and Jefferies Financial Products, LLC.
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category:indexes
Category:Indexes
Category:Indices
Category:Reuters
Category:Jefferies
Revendex Group

Revendex Group is a software and consulting firm founded in 2003 focusing on servicing financial institutions. The firm, based just outside Zurich, offers a post-trade settlement system for brokers and banks. 
== Products and Services ==
Revendex' specialty lies in derivatives software development and related consulting work surrounding project and cost management.
It offers a real-time back-office solution for derivatives called primedex. The product, which took four years to develop and was introduced in 2016, is a Java and C coded system that is designed to work on listed and OTC markets. The company competes with industry legacy behemoth's ION Trading's Rolfe & Nolan Plc platform and FIS Stream, (formerly Sungard's GMI platform. The linux-based platform is designed to be flexible and adaptable to existing back office technology systems. 
== Key People ==
Peter Hollenstein, managing director
Bernhard Kessler, managing director
Vanessa Kessler, managing director
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Revenue

Revenue refers to the total amount of money received by a company from all its business activities, before expenses, within a timeframe. Investors and analysts commonly refer to revenue as EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) but it is also called sales, income or gross income. Expenses subtracted from revenue gives the company's bottom-line profit figure, sometimes called net income.
== The top line ==
A corporation's total revenue (or total sales) is always the first line on its balance sheet but is then often broken up into categories below that based on what each business division earned over the period.
However, not all companies agree on when revenue should be reported or even what constitutes it. Some, for example, recognize and book revenue when a deal is signed, others when the money is received, still others when services or goods are delivered. Companies also recognize revenue differently depending on which accounting method they use.
Different companies also sometimes attempt to measure their revenue differently. Many, for example, prefer to report their operating income, which excludes any investment income or revenue from newly-purchased businesses or recently sold ones. Some publicly traded companies also try to exclude progressively more items from their operating income to artifically boost their bottom line. 
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Revenue stream

A "revenue stream" is another name for income, but has gradually taken on a distinct and specialized meaning in certain contexts to mean a new, novel, potentially lucrative, innovative, and creative means of generating income or exploiting a potential. The phrase also comes in handy in the new Internet age where revenues are sometimes generated in ways that do not resemble the old-fashioned sale across a counter.
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Category:Definitions
Category:Investment Metrics
Reverse Repo

In fall of 2009, the Federal Reserve began conducting small-scale tests of trades called reverse repos, or reverse repurchase agreements, on Wall Street that would enable it to drain cash from the financial system once it decides to roll back its monetary policy.
In a reverse repo the Fed sells assets such as Treasury securities to dealers for cash with an agreement to buy them back at a slightly higher price at a later date. In the process, bank reserves are drained from the financial system.
The Fed is expected to do about $500 billion in total in reverse repos during 2010. The Fed likely has to drain a total of around $1 trillion from the market. Typically, individual reverse repos amount to about $25 billion in size.
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Category:Definitions
Category:Repos
Review of Futures Markets

The Review of Futures Markets is a financial journal that promotes global research and study of financial engineering, markets and products. 
The quarterly journal publishes peer-reviewed, editor-selected articles that expand the literature of futures, options and derivatives research. Selected articles presented at the annual Futures Research Symposium also are published. 
The Review was originally published by the Chicago Board of Trade from 1982 to 1991 and is now published by Kent State University, in cooperation with the Institute for Financial Markets. Insightful articles appeal to a high-level audience including exchange professionals, market practitioners, financial engineers and academics, among others. Subscriptions are available, and past articles from 1982-2006 can be viewed for free at the Review of Futures Markets Archives.
During its publication from 1982 through 1994, RFM was named as one of 15 core financial journals and ranked as the 12th journal of finance, based on citations.
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Category:Educators
Category:The IFM
Category:Educational Resources
Revolution Global

With a combined 151,050 square feet of production space in Illinois, Revolution Global is the largest producer of medical cannabis in the state. The company also has a presence in Florida, Arkansas and Maryland. It's headed by Mark de Souza, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors, who previously worked in the financial industry and is a member of CME Group. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*Mark de Souza, CEO
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Rex A. Sinquefield

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Rex A. Sinquefield is a director of Dimensional Fund Advisors, which he co-founded with David G. Booth.
== Background ==
He is best known for his influential article “Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation,” co-authored with Roger G. Ibbotson, which led to a seminal database for historical prices. Sinquefield and Ibbotson received a Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence for the article, which appeared in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1979. The publication's editorial board, which Sinquefield joined in 2003, again awarded Sinquefield the award in 1996 for "Where Are the Gains from International Diversification?" 
Sinquefield was raised in St. Vincent Home for Children in St. Louis and was one of the first money managers to successfully apply the findings of academic finance to money management and pioneered many of the first index funds at American National Bank of Chicago in the early 1970s. 
Through the Sinquefield Family Foundation, he supports organizations focused on music, children and education, recently donating $1 million to $1 million to the University of Missouri School of Music. He also provided the seed capital for the creation of The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, a destination for both new and seasoned chess players in Saint Louis.
He is a life trustee of DePaul University and serves on the boards of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri History Museum, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Symphony and Saint Louis University. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship and service.
== Education ==
* Master's of Business Administration, University of Chicago, 1972
* Bachelor's of Science in business, St. Louis University 
 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:University of Chicago
Riad Salamé

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Riad Salamé is the long time governor of the Bank of Lebanon and a former executive at Merrill Lynch.
== Background ==
Riad Salamé spent 20 years as an investment banker with U.S.-based Merrill Lynch, beginning in 1973 in Beirut and ending in 1993 in Paris after eight-year stint there as Vice President and Financial Counselor, before joining the Bank of Lebanon (BofL). Salamé was private banker to then-prime minister Rafiq Hariri when Hariri made him Governor of the Bank of Lebanon in 1993, according to a June 2007 report by CNBC. He has since been re-appointed twice to six-year terms: in 1999 and 2005. Salameh's resumé since joining the BofL in littered with international awards and acclaim for his success in preserving the value of Lebanon's currency, the Lebanese pound, while building sustained growth and investment in often turbulent times. He has twice won Euromoney's annual title for world's best central banker after first winning the magazine's Arab-region award in 1996. He has been chairman of the Special Investigation Commission against Money Laundering since it began in 2001.
== Education ==
Salamé holds a a bachelor of arts B.A. in eonomics from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
== Latest news ==
Riad Salamé has most recently been lauded in influential western financial media like Institutional Investor for a ban he imposed on Lebanese banks in 2005 that prevented them from buying mortgage-backed securities, whose market collapse in 2007 triggered the global 2008 financial crisis. Salamé recently told the LA Times that he had been skeptical at the time of the co-operative relationship between U.S. investment banks and ratings agencies plus the complicated nature of the securities.
 
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Category:Central Bank Executives
Category:Lebanon
Ricardo Manrique

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Ricardo Manrique is a New York-based derivatives and index markets professional who is currently the head of strategy for the London Stock Exchange Group, focusing on the FTSE Russell business.
Formerly, he was executive director of MSCI in New York.
Before joining MSCI, he was the CEO of STOXX, Ltd., a joint venture of Deutsche Borse AG, Dow Jones & Company and SIX Swiss Exchange AG. He took over that position on October 1, 2008. At STOXX, he was based in Zurich and was responsible for identifying and implementing strategic business initiatives, developing new licensing opportunities, and positioning the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes strategically. He was also responsible for the overall day-to-day management of STOXX Limited.
Also, Manrique spent ten years in various derivatives and indexing positions at leading investment banks and index providers such as JP Morgan, STOXX Limited and Dow Jones Indexes. At STOXX Limited, Manrique was responsible for index operations and product development.
== Background ==
Before joining STOXX Limited, Manrique was responsible for Latin American derivatives sales & structuring at Standard Bank Plc. In that role his focus was primarily on working with corporate clients in identifying and managing balance sheet risks through the use of derivatives based products.
Manrique is a former member of the Marine Corps. in the U.S.
== Education ==
Manrique holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Rutgers University and a master of business administration from Columbia Business School.
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Category:Bios - Executives
Category:STOXX
Category:MSCI - Former Employees
Category:Dow Jones Indexes - Former Employees
Category:JP Morgan - Former Employees
Ricardo Marra

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Ricardo Marra is president of the Bolsa de Cereales de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Grain Exchange). He also serves president of The International Negotiation on Agriculture Institute.
==Background==
Marra is a member of the board of directors of Mercado a Termino de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Futures and Options Exchange). Marra has also served as chairman, treasurer and director at the exchange. 
Marra served as chairman of the Association of Futures Markets from 2007 to 2008.
Marra became Professor of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires in 1982.
==Education==
Marra graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in agricultural engineering with a specialization in agricultural production.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Association of Futures Markets
Category:Buenos Aires Grain Exchange
Category:Buenos Aires Futures and Options Exchange
Ricardo Sant'Anna

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Ricardo Sant'Anna is a director of business development, Latin America for the CME Group. He was named to the position on April 4, 2008. Sant'Anna acts as the primary business liason for the CME Group to the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange S.A. (BM&F).
== Background ==
Previous to joining the CME Group, Sant'Anna was with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., where he worked as an institutional broker at the firm's commodity futures and options desk, serving global commodity indexes, hedge funds and banks dealing in energies, metals, soft commodities, livestock and grains.
Prior to Merrill Lynch, Sant'Anna was an institutional broker with Cargill Investor Services, Inc. serving Latin American sugar, livestock and grain clients.
== Education ==
Sant'Anna holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the State University of Campinas and an MBA from the COPPEAD Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
== References ==
Category:CME Group