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Another Milestone For CBDCs As Kazakhstan Launches Digital Tenge

Date 18/12/2023

R3’s Corda distributed ledger technology (DLT) is powering the National Bank of Kazakhstan’s transformative CBDC initiatives.

EACH Responds To ESMA's Call For Evidence On Shortening Settlement Cycles

Date 18/12/2023

EACH responds to the ESMA Call for evidence on shortening settlement cycles. As we did with the previous move to T+2, EACH aims to contribute with factual information to enrich the discussion about shortening settlement cycles. Some of the key takeaways of our response:

Chinese Company Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Lists Its GDRs At SIX Swiss Exchange

Date 18/12/2023

Today, Shenzhen Senior Technology Material (Ticker "SENIOR") becomes the eighth company to list Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) at SIX Swiss Exchange in 2023.

ACER Opens A Call For European Associations Of Energy Market Participants To Be Involved In The Next REMIT Roundtables

Date 18/12/2023

ACER launches today an open call to renew the list of European associations of energy market participants that will be involved in the next REMIT roundtable meetings (to be organised in 2024 and 2025).

The New York Stock Exchange Leads Industry In Transfers For A Second-Straight Year, Reports Major Technology And Community Milestones

Date 18/12/2023

• Completes upgrade of all NYSE exchanges to its cutting-edge trading platform
• Welcomes 32 transfers, second-highest total since 2002
• Includes 20 operating company transfers, nearly triple those to competing exchanges
• Lists two of the year’s three largest IPOs

Nasdaq Named To Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index For The Eighth Consecutive Year

Date 18/12/2023

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), one of the most prestigious environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ranking benchmarks, for the eighth consecutive year. Nasdaq is one of 11 diversified financial services companies selected for inclusion in the North America index.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Responds To The Complaints Commissioner’s Final Report Into Premier FX Limited

Date 18/12/2023

Today, we have responded to the Financial Regulators Complaints Commissioner's Final Report into complaints from those affected by the collapse of Premier FX Limited in 2018.

Signal Versus Noise - Speech By Ben Broadbent, Bank Of England, Deputy Governor, Monetary Policy, Given At The London Business School

Date 18/12/2023

In this speech Ben talks about setting monetary policy under uncertainty, about both the behaviour of the supply side of the economy and incoming data. Heightened uncertainty about underlying productivity growth and also the NAIRU means policy has had to put some weight on domestic inflation and wage growth, things that would normally be viewed as late-cycle indicators. There is also a degree of uncertainty about the observable data themselves. In particular, official estimates of average wages have been volatile and, in the spring and summer of this year, exhibited somewhat faster growth than other indicators.

A Delegation From The Iraqi Securities Commission And The Iraq Stock Exchange Visits The Amman Stock Exchange And The Jordanian Capital Market Institutions

Date 18/12/2023

The CEO of the ASE, Mr. Mazen Wathaifi, received a delegation comprising representatives from both the Iraqi Securities Commission and the Iraq Stock Exchange, within the framework of a field visit by the delegation to the capital market in the presence of Deputy CEO, Mr. Bassam Abu Abbas and a number of ASE officials the visiting delegation. Both parties affirmed the depth of the relationships between the two countries and their keenness to enhance cooperation in the future.

Liquidnet To Integrate bondIT’s AI-Driven Credit Research Into Its Electronic Trading Platform - The Two Firms Announce Their Collaboration To Advance Traders’ Ability To Anticipate Critical Market Changes

Date 18/12/2023

Liquidnet, a leading technology-driven agency execution specialist, and bondIT, a leading provider of next-generation investment technology, announced today their partnership to integrate bondIT’s Scorable Credit Analytics into Liquidnet’s Fixed Income electronic trading platform. The collaboration aims to empower traders to anticipate market trends, mitigate credit risk and make informed investment decisions faster.