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The EBA Provides Guidance On The Benchmarking Of Diversity Practices Under The Capital Requirements And Investment Firms Directives

Date 18/12/2023

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published today the final Guidelines on the benchmarking of diversity practices, including diversity policies and gender pay gap, under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) and the Investment Firms Directive (IFD). These Guidelines will ensure a higher level of transparency on the EBA’s work on the topic of diversity and gender equality and will help improve the quality of the collected data as well as the awareness of all stakeholders in this area.

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.