Press Digest: Financial Times - Aug 19

VTech Holdings

19/08/2016 24:58

Aug 19 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the 
Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does 
not vouch for their accuracy. 
     
    Headlines 
     
    * CFTC charges Deutsche Bank with swap-reporting abuses http://on.ft.com/2bjGM50 
     
    * VTech and LeapFrog merger faces UK probe http://on.ft.com/2bjH37O 
     
    * Judicial investigation deals blow to Monte dei Paschi di 
Siena http://on.ft.com/2bjH8bE 
     
    * Williams rejects Enterprise bid to create $80 bln pipeline 
giant http://on.ft.com/2bjHK19 
     
     
    Overview 
     
    - The U.S. CFTC charged Deutsche Bank  DBKGn.DE  with a 
number of swap-reporting abuses, repeated failures of 
supervision and a violation of a previous order. CFTC, in a 
complaint filed to the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said 
the bank was not able to report any swap data for multiple asset 
classes for five days after an April systems outage. 
     
    - VTech  0303.HK  and LeapFrog are set to come under 
investigation after Competition and Markets Authority said the 
proposed $72 million merger could lead to a "substantial 
lessening of competition". 
     
    - Monte dei Paschi di Siena's  BMPS.MI  CEO Fabrizio Viola 
and former chairman Alessandro Profumo have come under 
investigation for alleged market manipulation and false 
accounting.  
     
    - Enterprise Products Partners'  EPD.N  attempt to buy rival 
Williams Companies  WMB.N  was rejected, but Enterprise is still 
interested and could make another offer to Williams. The nature 
of the offer made by Enterprise Products is unknown. 
 
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Maler) 
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