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wnt.icu: BaFin Investigates Skyline Digital Ltd

Date 26/09/2023

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warns consumers about the company Skyline Digital Ltd and the services it is offering. According to information available to BaFin, the company, which is domiciled in St. Lucia, is providing financial and investment services on its website wnt.icu without the required authorisation. The company is not supervised by BaFin and is not affiliated with the supervised company CMC Markets Germany GmbH.

Basel III Capital Ratios For Largest Global Banks Increased Above Pre-Pandemic Levels In The Second Half Of 2022, Latest Basel III Monitoring Exercise Shows

Date 26/09/2023

• Initial Basel III capital ratios increased above pre-pandemic levels in the second half of 2022 and liquidity coverage ratios declined but remained above pre-pandemic levels.
• The average impact of the final Basel III framework on Tier 1 minimum required capital of the largest global banks (+3.0%) increased by 20 basis points since the first half of 2022 (+2.8%).
• New dashboards provide an interactive visualisation of the results for the definition of capital and total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC).

FIA Highlights Best Practices For Exchange Volatility Control Mechanisms In New Report

Date 26/09/2023

SEC Charges Advisory Firm Bruderman Asset Management And Its Principal For Failing To Disclose Misuse Of Investment Funds

Date 26/09/2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that New York-based Bruderman Asset Management LLC (BAM) and its principal, Matthew J. Bruderman, agreed to settle charges related to their failure to disclose the misuse of proceeds raised from investment advisory clients and to the firm’s failure to implement reasonably designed written policies and procedures concerning the disclosure of conflicts of interest.

ACER Calls For Improvements In ENTSOG’s Draft Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology For Hydrogen Infrastructure

Date 26/09/2023

ACER publishes today an Opinion on the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas' (ENTSOG's) draft cost-benefit analysis (CBA) methodology for hydrogen infrastructure.

Confluence Launches Prism Analytics – Providing Asset Managers With First-Of-Its-Kind Insights On Public And Private Plans - Institutional Asset Managers Can Leverage Granular, Actionable Intelligence On Channel Level Flows, Actual Post-Transaction Fees, And Mandates Won / Lost By Manager

Date 26/09/2023

Confluence Technologies, Inc. (“Confluence”), a global technology solutions provider driving the investment management industry to gain greater insights from data, announced today the launch of Prism Analytics.

SET Creates Over 2,300 Financial And Investment Analysis Personnel For The Thai Capital Market

Date 26/09/2023

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), in collaboration with the Investment Analysts Association (IAA), has continuously enhanced the potential of the personnel in the Thai capital market by building financial and investment analysis professionals since 2005, with 2,359 professionals passing the Certified Investment and Securities Analyst (CISA) course. This year SET initiated the CISA Achievement Award to honor the outstanding CISA holder who builds the CISA curriculum’s reputation through successful professional career and makes valuable contributions to the Thai capital market. The award was presented to Therdsak Thaveeteeratham.

SWIAT Cooperates With GFT To Offer Secure, Compliant Global Blockchain Platform - GFT Joins Ecosystem As Validator To Strengthen Reliability For Financial Institutions

Date 26/09/2023

With the value of tokenised assets expected to grow by 60 percent a year, reaching over 3 trillion euros by 2030 in the European market alone, SWIAT aims to create a single global standard for the processing of blockchain-based securities. 

MNI China Liquidity Index™ – Tighter in Septembe

Date 26/09/2023

Key Points – September Report

China’s interbank market liquidity tightened in September, as the PBOC preserved sufficient liquidity to support the economy going into Q4, with cuts made to the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) and adjustments to its daily open market operations.

Refinitiv Launches Regulated Term €STR Benchmark For Market Participants To Use As A Robust Fallback Or Reference Rate

Date 26/09/2023

Effective today, Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) business, launches a forward-looking euro risk-free interest rate benchmark, Refinitiv Term €STR, to support market participants comply with EU Benchmarks Regulation and meet Working Group on Euro Risk-Free Rates recommendations by including robust fallbacks in their EURIBOR® referencing contracts.