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Bitfinex: How This Exchange CTO Plans To Help Rebuild Trust In Crypto Following FTX Contagion

Date 21/12/2022

Uncertainties related to the crypto sphere have never been so significant. Paolo Ardoino, Bitfinex’s CTO, has made it his priority to rehabilitate the legitimacy of the industry by putting education first. Ardoino wrote an open letter to reflect on where we stand as an industry and the direction we at Bitfinex see ourselves headed: 

The Updated Coefficients For Moscow Exchange Indices To Come Into Force

Date 21/12/2022

The following coefficients for Moscow Exchange indices come into force from December 21, 2022:

ACER Study On The Prequalification Processes For The Provision Of Balancing Services

Date 21/12/2022

As part of its wholesale electricity market monitoring, ACER looked at the different electricity balancing prequalification approaches in Europe.

Vienna Stock Exchange: 40 European And US Stocks New On The Global Market

Date 21/12/2022

The international market segment is further expanded: 40 new securities are included to continuous trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange as of today. More than half of these blue chips originate from the USA. With this expansion, Spotify Technology (audio streaming) is the first Swedish stock to be included. The new additions also include CPI Property Group (real estate) and various cloud service providers such as Palo Alto Networks, Datadog and Veeva Systems. Companies that have become popular on social media in recent years as "meme stocks" are also represented with GameStop, AMC Entertainment and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Borsa İstanbul’s Opening Bell Rang For Tera Yatırım

Date 21/12/2022

The Initial Public Offering of Tera Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. has been completed. Shares offered to the public will be listed on BIST MAIN with a base price of 10 TL, the ticker code “TERA” and the continuous trading method as of December 22, 2022

BaFin Imposes Administrative Fines

Date 21/12/2022

On 7 December 2022, BaFin imposed administrative fines totalling 160,000 euros on a natural person due to breaches of section 33 (1) sentence 1 and section 34 (1) sentence 1 of the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – WpHG).

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Reprimands And Fines Guosen Securities (HK) Brokerage Company, Limited $2.8 Million Over Regulatory Breaches

Date 21/12/2022

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined Guosen Securities (HK) Brokerage Company, Limited (Guosen) $2.8 million for regulatory breaches in relation to the handling of client assets and the provision of client account statements.

Sukoon’s Syndicate 2880 At Lloyd’s Obtains Its DIFC Licence To Strengthen Its Operation In The Market

Date 21/12/2022

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial centre in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, has granted an operating licence to Sukoon’s Syndicate 2880.

MNI Indicators: MNI China Liquidity Index™ – Falls To 32.9 In December

Date 21/12/2022

Key Points – December Report

Liquidity conditions across China’s interbank markets tightened in November, the latest MNI Liquidity Condition Index shows.

Invest Hong Kong Unveils FinTechHK Community Platform And Results Of Its Global Fast Track Programme 2022 - Doubling Down On Efforts To Bring FinTechs And Businesses Together To Develop And Explore Further Growth Opportunities Through Hong Kong

Date 21/12/2022

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) today announced the soft launch of the FintechHK Community Platform, a centralised fintech platform to connect local and global fintech companies with Corporate, Investor, and Service Champions to foster vibrant growth of Hong Kong's fintech ecosystem. Fully supported by the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and curated by InvestHK, the initiative comes as an extension of the Global Fast Track Programme, which garnered great industry participation in 2022.