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ESMA Updates Its Q&As On The Securitisation Regulation
Date 15/11/2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today updated its Questions and Answers (Q&As) on the Securitisation Regulation (Regulation 2017/2402).
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Moscow Exchange: The Additional Trading Session Starts Later For Derivatives Market On 5, 12, 16, 18, 19, 23 And 26 December 2019
Date 15/11/2019
Please note that the Derivatives Market evening trading session will begin five minutes later, i.e. at 7:05 pm MSK, on 5, 12, 16, 18, 19, 23 and 26 December 2019, as these are the last trading days for options contracts (in accordance with clause 6.2 of the Rules of organized trading for the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market).
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EBRD: Financial Intermediary System Is Responsible For Environmental Sustainability
Date 15/11/2019
Financial and environmental risks interact with each other. Central banks and financial supervisory authorities have an increasing responsibility to develop a sustainable and climate-friendly financial system, as was pointed out at the International Green Finance Conference, which was organised jointly by the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) and the EBRD in Budapest today. The conference was also attended by international financial institutions, central banks, supervisory authorities and market participants from Europe and Asia.
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HKEX: Celebrating 5 Years Of Stock Connect
Date 15/11/2019
Stock Connect, the landmark mutual market access programme linking the Hong Kong and Mainland China equity markets, this week marks its fifth anniversary amid record levels of two-way capital flows. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today (Friday) publishes some key statistics of the programme from its five-year history.
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ETFGI Reports That Assets Invested ETFs And ETPs Listed In Europe Reached A New Record High Of US$959.96 Billion At The End Of October 2019
Date 15/11/2019
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe gathered net inflows of US$13.46 billion in October, bringing year-to-date net inflows to US$88.89 billion which is nearly double the US$47.71 billion in net inflows at this point last year . Assets invested in the European ETFs/ETPs industry have increased by 3.8%, from US$924.71 billion at the end of September, to a record US$959.96 billion, according to ETFGI's October 2019 European ETFs and ETPs industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)
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Sustainability Indices By Moscow Exchange And The Russian Union Of Industrialists And Entrepreneurs Awarded ISAR Honours 2019
Date 15/11/2019
Two sustainability indices calculated by Moscow Exchange and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) – the Responsibility and Transparency Index and the Sustainability Vector Index – have been awarded ISAR Honours 2019. The ISAR Honours were unveiled at the 36th meeting of the Standing Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting (ISAR) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Regulator’s Column: SGX’s Expectations Of REITs At IPO stage And When Negative Media Reports Surface
Date 15/11/2019
When REITs are at the IPO stage or are newly-listed, they are operating for the first time under the keen scrutiny of the market including the media and regulators. It is therefore important that we – as frontline market regulator – clarify certain key issues and spell out our expectations of such a REIT.
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FINSIA: The Regulators - Opening Remarks By ASIC Deputy Chair Karen Chester At The Regulators 2019, Sydney, 15 November 2019
Date 15/11/2019
Being a FINSIA fan, I’m pleased to be here today. Joining Guy and John to form a troika for the panel discussion – three deputies, three regulators, and three economists. I’ll look to cover three things in my opening words:
- first, do a bit of myth busting about ASIC,
- second, identify the two elements that form the alloy across our regulatory priorities – being fairness and transparency, and
- third, share a few insights from our recent report on disclosure, and why it’s time to do things differently.
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Modernizing Our Regulatory Framework: Focus On Authority, Expertise And Long-Term Investor Interests, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 14, 2019, University Of Pennsylvania Distinguished Jurist Lecture
Date 14/11/2019
Introduction
Thank you for providing me the opportunity to deliver this year’s Distinguished Jurist Lecture. This is a special honor for me. Philadelphia is my hometown. Penn is my alma mater—two times. And, I miss teaching here.
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US Department Of Justice: Former Financial Services Executive Pleads Guilty To Rigging Bids For Financial Instruments In Violation Of Antitrust Law - Fourth Defendant Pleads Guilty In Pre-Release ADRs Investigation
Date 14/11/2019
Peter Volino, a former vice president at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services LLC (ICBCFS), pleaded guilty to a criminal antitrust charge for his involvement in a bid-rigging conspiracy for certain financial instruments, the Department of Justice announced.
