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EBA Issues Opinion To The European Commission On The Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Date 26/01/2023

• The EBA believes that the draft standards are a good basis for the implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), although a few aspects should deserve further consideration.
• Interoperability of the draft standards with the EBA Pillar 3 disclosures, together with the data that credit institutions need from a risk management perspective, are central considerations of this Opinion.

ESMA Issues Its First Opinion On The Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Date 26/01/2023

The European Securities and Markets Authority, the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has issued an opinion on the first set of draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS Set 1) developed by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). ESMA finds that ESRS Set 1 broadly meets the objective of being conducive to investor protection and of not undermining financial stability.

Canada’s ATB Financial Adopts smartTrade’s Leading FX Solution

Date 26/01/2023

smartTrade Technologies announced today that Alberta-based ATB Financial, the largest financial institution in the province of Alberta, has adopted smartTrade as its client-facing foreign exchange (FX) web platform.

ISDA: Navigating Bankruptcy In Digital Asset Markets: Netting And Collateral Enforceability

Date 26/01/2023

The collapse in November 2022 of FTX, one of the largest and highest profile crypto exchange platforms, sent shockwaves through financial markets. Coming only months after the failure of TerraUSD and the subsequent bankruptcy of Three Arrows Capital and Celsius, the insolvency of FTX and associated companies (including Alameda Research) prompted a cascade of liquidity and solvency concerns across the crypto ecosystem, with crypto lender BlockFi filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and several other firms suspending redemptions.

Borsa İstanbul’s Opening Bell Rang For Maçkolik İnternet Hizmetleri

Date 26/01/2023

In his address at the Opening Bell Ceremony, Korkmaz Ergun, the CEO of Borsa İstanbul A.Ş., stated the following:

“Distinguished guests,

Today, I welcome you all to your home, to the Opening Bell Ceremony hosted by our Exchange as we celebrate the listing of Maçkolik at our Exchange.

Oslo Børs Launches The 2023 Edition Of IPOready Norway

Date 26/01/2023

• 11 companies ready to take part in the pre-IPO program

• The programme is organised together with Pareto Securities, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen, PwC Norway and Crux Advisers

DGCX Reports 16% Growth In Total Volume Of Trades In 2022, With Total Value Of USD 162 Billion

Date 26/01/2023

2022 Highlights:

•  Total volume traded – 8,239,546 lots
• Total volume traded – up 16.00 Y-o-Y
• Total value traded – USD 162.01 billion
•  Total value traded – up 8.24% Y-o-Y
• Average open interest – 127,831 lots
• Average daily volume – 31,800 lots
• Highest daily volume – (21-Oct-2022), 90,107 lots
• Gold volume – up 78% Y-o-Y

Euronext Dublin Launches The 2023 Edition Of IPOready Ireland

Date 26/01/2023

• With an unprecedented record number of applications received, Euronext Dublin welcomes 14 companies into  its 2023 IPOready programme

• Euronext Dublin launches a six-month training programme aiming to equip participating companies with a comprehensive overview of the most appropriate financing tools

• 80% of total participants are Tech companies, including cleantech, fintech and life science companies

REGIS-TR Adds TradeHeader To Its Partnership Programme

Date 26/01/2023

REGIS-TR adds TradeHeader to its partnership programme. Reflecting the existing collaboration, the official partnership will see a continuation of the common work to provide support to our clients in reporting and keep market participants informed of regulatory changes.

Updated Regulation Could Jeopardise The European Union's Global Competitiveness - Better Never Than Late? - Discussion With Thibault Gobert, Head Of Liquidity Pool At Spectrum Markets

Date 26/01/2023

The Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) is a key European financial market regulation, aiming at introducing a harmonised framework for financial market infrastructures throughout the Union. It came into force in 2014 with implementation packages phasing in over several years. The third and last element, the Settlement Discipline Regime (SDR), has been the most controversial. Thibault Gobert, Head of Liquidity Pool at Spectrum Markets, expects that the latest developments may appease the critics’ anger.