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Statement On Staff Report On Equity And Options Market Conditions In Early 2021, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, SEC Commissioner Elad L. Roisman, Oct. 18, 2021
Date 18/10/2021
Today, the staff issued a report on the so called “meme stock” episode that occurred this past January. We would like to thank the staff not only for their hard work on this report, but also for keeping the Commission fully and timely informed during the period of extreme volatility discussed in the report. While the report includes an interesting account of the events, it does not appear that many conclusions can be drawn from the data. This report should have been an anodyne report on the events of earlier this year and, if evident from the data, an assessment of the causes of those events. Surprisingly, the report turned into an account of those events awkwardly intertwined with discussions of market practices and policies that mirror Commission-level conversations unrelated to the specifics of January’s events. Including these discussions distracts rather than informs our understanding of the meme stock episode.
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Treasury International Capital Data For August
Date 18/10/2021
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for August 2021. The next release, which will report on data for September 2021, is scheduled for November 16, 2021.
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ICE Mortgage Technology Announces Experience 2022 Registration Is Open - Conference To Be Hosted In-Person At Wynn Las Vegas Mid-March
Date 18/10/2021
ICE Mortgage Technology TM, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced that registration is now open for its tenth annual user conference, Experience 2022. The conference will be held March 13 - 16, 2022 at Wynn Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s conference marks the first in-person event since 2019 inviting attendees to once again participate in general sessions, hands-on training, breakout sessions and networking.
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SEC Staff Releases Report On Equity And Options Market Structure Conditions In Early 2021
Date 18/10/2021
The Securities and Exchange Commission today published a Staff Report on Equity and Options Market Structure Conditions in Early 2021, which focuses on the January 2021 trading activity of GameStop Corp (GME), the most famous of the "meme stocks." Because the meme stock episode raised several questions about market structure, the staff report also provides an overview of the equity and options market structure for individual investors.
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New York Attorney General James Directs Unregistered Crypto Lending Platforms To Cease Operations In New York, Announces Additional Investigations - Today’s Announcement Follows Previous Warnings To Virtual Currency Platforms That Unlawful Activity Will Not Be Tolerated In New York
Date 18/10/2021
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced new efforts she is taking to protect New York investors, and the trading markets more generally, from exploitation by high-risk virtual currency schemes. Virtual or “crypto” currency lending platforms are essentially interest-bearing accounts that offer investors a rate of return on virtual currencies that are deposited with them. In New York, these lending platforms must register with the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) if they are operating within the state or offering their products to New Yorkers. Today, Attorney General James directed two of these lending platforms to immediately cease their unregistered and unlawful activities in New York and directed three other platforms to immediately provide information about their activities and products.
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Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security BILI-RM
Date 18/10/2021
As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 18.10.2021, 19-18 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 5904) and initial margins (up to 32.5 %) for the security BILI-RM were changed. New values are available here
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Canadian Securities Regulators Seek Comment On Climate-Related Disclosure Requirements
Date 18/10/2021
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published for comment proposed climate-related disclosure requirements. The proposed requirements address the need for more consistent and comparable information to help inform investment decisions. They also demonstrate the CSA’s commitment in favour of the growing international movement toward mandatory climate-related disclosure standards.
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Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security M-RM
Date 18/10/2021
As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 18.10.2021, 19-33 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band and initial margins for the security M-RM were changed. New values are available here
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ICE Mortgage Technology Announces MERS Expansion To Include Industry-Wide Remote Online Notarization Video Storage Solution - Industry Utility For Remote Online Notarization (RON) Videos To Drive Digital Adoption
Date 18/10/2021
ICE Mortgage TechnologyTM, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced that MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., the mortgage industry’s national electronic loan registry, is expanding its capabilities to now include industry-wide, secure storage of Remote Online Notarization (RON) videos for lenders, investors, and servicers. The MERS RON video storage solution will provide a secure way to store, provide access to, and retrieve copies of RON video recordings for notaries, RON platform providers, and authorized parties during post-closing review, loan purchase as well as downstream events such as foreclosure.
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Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities
Date 18/10/2021
The following risk parameters will be changed:
Ticker IR risk (downward scenario) - SECΔ_1 (Y0/Y1) New value effective for Current value New value AA-RM 35% 77% 27.10.2021 - 29.10.2021 CARR-RM 35% 77% 27.10.2021 - 29.10.2021 COST-RM 35% 77% 27.10.2021 - 29.10.2021 MS-RM 35% 77% 27.10.2021 - 29.10.2021 PAYX-RM 35% 77% 28.10.2021 - 01.11.2021
