Tax-haven platforms may never get CFTC sanction, so will they be illegal under Dodd-Frank, or, will it be a viable way to navigate around the U.S. forex trading leverage constraints?

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Push the fast trading and high leverage to hedge funds which fail at a rather regular rate with little or not impact on the wider economy.

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Notice how the CFTC may not allow Americans to get higher leverage offshore with new forex trading rules. (See my past blogs and podcasts.) Could regulators and tax authorities use extraterritorial reach on an FTT too?

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The Kyoto Protocol established mechanisms which would leverage money for adaptation from carbon trading.

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Many questions remain regarding trading offshore to evade leverage and other constraints posed by the new CFTC rules.

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Some foreign forex trading platforms offer 200:1 leverage and spread betting with no requirement for LIFO accounting.

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If traders are given licence to use leverage to buy into rising asset markets, then the trading division should be charged a cost of capital high enough to reflect the risks involved.

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As the fund does not employ leverage or derivatives for risk management, Exante intends to provide a two-way secondary market for the trading of fund shares.

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