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MIAX Exchange Group - Sales Tax Charge Added To Invoices Beginning With January 2023 Invoices

Date 13/01/2023

As previously announced in the November 9, 2022 Alert, the MIAX Options, MIAX Pearl Options, MIAX Emerald Options and MIAX Pearl Equities Exchanges began collecting state-specific sales tax on January 1, 2023.  

Federal Reserve Board Releases Results Of Survey Of Senior Financial Officers At Banks About Their Strategies And Practices For Managing Reserve Balances

Date 13/01/2023

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday released results of a survey of senior financial officers at banks about their strategies and practices for managing reserve balances. The Senior Financial Officer Survey is used by the Board to obtain information about deposit pricing and behavior, bank liability management, the provision of financial services, and reserve management strategies and practices. The most recent survey was conducted in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between November 4, 2022, and November 18, 2022, and includes responses from banks that held slightly below three quarters of total banking system reserve balances at the time of the survey.

FINRA Proposal To Amend The Codes Of Arbitration Procedure To Make Various Clarifying And Technical Changes To The Codes, Including In Response To Recommendations In The Report Of Independent Counsel Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Date 13/01/2023

FINRA is proposing to amend the Codes of Arbitration Procedure to make changes to provisions relating to the arbitrator list selection process in response to recommendations in the report of independent counsel Lowenstein Sandler LLP. The proposed rule change also makes clarifying and technical changes to certain requirements in the Codes.

Nadex Refrains From Listing Certain Contracts

Date 13/01/2023

Due to activity in the underlying markets upon which the Nadex contracts are based and pursuant to the authority granted in Nadex Rule 12.1(i), Nadex took the following actions:

SIFMA Comments On Consolidated Audit Trail Funding Model

Date 13/01/2023

In a comment letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SIFMA disagrees with the proposed allocation of two-thirds of Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) costs to industry members and instead suggests assigning half of CAT costs to industry members and half to the self-regulatory organization (SRO) participant exchanges as a more fair and reasonable allocation.  Further, SIFMA believes the SEC should not allow the SROs to significantly and materially amend the SROs’ current cost allocation proposal through a partial amendment for which the SEC has allotted a very brief 21-day comment period.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of Money Market Committee Meeting – December 2022

Date 13/01/2023

The Money Markets Committee is a forum for market participants and authorities to discuss the UK unsecured deposits and funding market and securities lending and repo markets.

US Secretary Of The Treasury Janet L. Yellen Sends Letter To Congressional Leadership On The Debt Limit

Date 13/01/2023

Today, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen sent a letter to all members of Congressional leadership regarding the debt limit.

ACER’s Publishes Its First New Daily LNG Price Assessment Report

Date 13/01/2023

On 30 December 2022, a new Council Regulation (EU) 2022/2576 entered into force requiring ACER to produce and publish a daily objective LNG price assessment report.

CFTC Commissioner Goldsmith Romero To Discuss Blockchain For Public Institution Applications At GBBC’s Blockchain Central Davos 2023

Date 13/01/2023

BIS: Monetary Policy And Credit Card Spending

Date 13/01/2023

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This paper is the first to use credit card data to assess how monetary policy affects consumer spending. The analysis uses transaction-level information provided confidentially by Fable Data for more than 1 million accounts in Germany over the period 2017–21.