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Date 26/01/2023

ISDA Launches Standard Definitions For Digital Asset Derivatives

ISDA has published new standard documentation for the trading of digital asset derivatives, alongside a whitepaper that addresses some of the legal issues raised by the recent bankruptcies of major crypto exchanges and market participants.

Date 26/01/2023

Keynote Address Of CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson At Digital Assets @ Duke Conference, Duke’s Pratt School Of Engineering And Duke Financial Economics Center - Mitigating Crypto-Crises: Applying Lessons Learned In Governance, Risk Management, And Compliance

Thank you so much for the kind invitation to join you for Digital Assets @ Duke. An anticipated disclaimer—the remarks that I will share today are my own and not the views of my fellow Commissioners or the Commission staff.

Date 26/01/2023

Euronext Corporate Services Expands Its Webcast Studio Network To Milan

Euronext Corporate Services, part of the Euronext Group, today announced the official opening of its webcast studio in Milan, Italy. This is the newest European studio of Company Webcast, the webinar company of Euronext Corporate Services and one of the market leaders in professional webcast and webinar solutions. Company Webcast runs the biggest network of broadcast-quality studios in Europe with eight studios in five countries.

Date 26/01/2023

SEC: Market Structure Updated Metrics

SEC Staff is pleased to provide you with the following updates:

• Updated Metrics. Data series containing daily cancel-to-trade ratios, trade-order volumes, hidden rates, and odd-lot rate metrics for Q4 2022 are now available. This data extends to 132 total months the data series you can view in the data visualization tool as well as download in CSV format. The visualization for quote-life data now defaults to Q4 2022.

Date 26/01/2023

BIS: Does Money Growth Help Explain The Recent Inflation Surge?

Key takeaways

• The strength of the link between money growth and inflation depends on the inflation regime: it is one-to-one when inflation is high and virtually non-existent when it is low.
• A link can also be seen in the recent possible transition from a low- to a high-inflation regime. An upsurge in money growth preceded the inflation flare-up, and countries with stronger money growth saw markedly higher inflation.
• Looking at money growth would have helped to improve post-pandemic inflation forecasts, suggesting that its information value may have been neglected.

Date 26/01/2023

Pico Announces Important Upgrade to VoIP Analytics Product

• Unparalleled Scale – new Corvil 10000 can monitor 100G networks and analyze 20,000 simultaneous calls.  
• New waveform analysis capability using machine intelligence to analyze voice quality on thousands of simultaneous calls – coming in 2023. 
• Cloud VoIP Analytics – currently in beta, Corvil VoIP Analytics will be available for AWS deployment in Q1 2023.

Date 26/01/2023

Token Unlocks: Not All Built The Same - Kaiko Research: Deep Dive

Token unlocks are considered bearish events that allow early investors, developers and employees the opportunity to sell their vested tokens. Early token holders are incentivized to sell due to their cost basis being so low, often looking at triple digit returns once they get the opportunity to cash out.

Date 26/01/2023

The EBA Responds To Law Firm On The Prudential Treatment Of Legacy Instruments Held By DNB Bank ASA

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a response to the letters received from a law firm on 23 June and 3 October 2022, regarding the case of the prudential classification as Tier 2 instruments of legacy perpetual bonds (so-called ‘Discos’) of an institution established in Norway (DNB Bank ASA).

Date 26/01/2023

EBA Issues Opinion To The European Commission On The Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards

• The EBA believes that the draft standards are a good basis for the implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), although a few aspects should deserve further consideration.
• Interoperability of the draft standards with the EBA Pillar 3 disclosures, together with the data that credit institutions need from a risk management perspective, are central considerations of this Opinion.

Date 26/01/2023

ESMA Issues Its First Opinion On The Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards

The European Securities and Markets Authority, the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has issued an opinion on the first set of draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS Set 1) developed by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). ESMA finds that ESRS Set 1 broadly meets the objective of being conducive to investor protection and of not undermining financial stability.