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SET Launches, The ESG Data Platform, First Sustainability Data Management System For Listed Firms, In October

Date 04/10/2022

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), together with Thai General Education Network, has encouraged universities across the country to embrace “Social Entrepreneurship” subject as a general education course starting from the academic year 2023 onwards, under a specially designed project called Social Enterprise (SE) @General Education (GE) to groom social entrepreneurs at university level so as to lay the entrepreneurship foundation early, to cultivate the understanding of sustainability values, while creating “change” leaders in the future.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Review Of Business Interruption Insurance Claims Handling

Date 04/10/2022

A Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) review of business interruption claims handling has welcomed insurers quickly paying out interim payments, reallocating resources quickly and proactively communicating with policyholders to help them with claims following the test case judgment handed down by the Supreme Court last year.

EGX Participates In The Egyptian Kuwaiti Economic Forum

Date 04/10/2022

Rami ElDokany, Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX), participated as a keynote speaker during the Egyptian-Kuwaiti Economic Forum, held on from 1st - 4th October, 2022.  The event was held with the participation of Minister of Finance, Minister of Trade & Industry, and representatives from the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce. From the Kuwaiti side, a delegation of businessmen headed by Mohamed Jassen Al-Saqer, the President of the Chamber of Kuwaiti Commerce and Industry.  The visit of the Kuwaiti delegation was to discuss investment opportunities available in Egypt. 

SIX Offers Municipal Bond Pricing Data Through Tradeweb’s Municipal Ai-Price Service

Date 04/10/2022

Swiss-based and globally operating financial data expert SIX announces that as of today, municipal bond pricing generated by global electronic marketplace operator, Tradeweb, known as Tradeweb Municipal Ai-Price, is available for customers of SIX. Through this offering, SIX will provide U.S. municipal bond pricing which leverages Tradeweb’s proprietary machine learning and data science models combined with proprietary data from Tradeweb’s electronic marketplace.

Qatar Stock Exchange Rings The Bell For Financial Literacy Initiative As Part Of The World Investor Week

Date 04/10/2022

Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) today hosted a bell ringing ceremony as part of its participation in the World Investor Week initiated by IOSCO and the World Federation of Exchanges.

Global X Japan Launches Global X Logistics REIT ETF, Tracking Solactive Index

Date 04/10/2022

The logistics industry is one of the main pillars of international trade, with over 5.7 trillion euros worth[1]. The logistics industry provides services of acquisition, management, storage, and transportation, having logistic facilities as an essential part of it.  The change in the economic scenario, with globalization and digitization, brings great potential to this industry. Only retail e-commerce – which is heavily dependent on logistics- sales worldwide reached around 5.2 trillion U.S. dollars and are estimated to grow by 56 percent over the next years, to 8.1 trillion dollars by 2026[2]. At the same time, real estate companies had an income of 9.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 and their CAGR is forecast to increase by 4.8 percent between 2021 and 2030[3]. Envisaging the large potential of these trends combined, Solactive is pleased to announce that Global X Japan launched the Global X Logistics REIT ETF, Tracking Solactive Logistics REIT Index.

CCP12 Responds To The ESMA Consultation Paper On The Clearing And Derivative Trading Obligations In View Of The 2022 Status Of The Benchmark Transition

Date 04/10/2022

CCP12 has published its response to the ESMA Consultation Paper on the clearing and derivative trading obligations in view of the 2022 status of the benchmark transition (Link).

Vienna Stock Exchange Q1-Q3 2022: Equity Turnover On 10-Year High

Date 04/10/2022

While global stock markets are under pressure following interest rate hikes and geopolitical tensions, equity trading volumes on the Vienna Stock Exchange stabilised at pre-crisis levels in the third quarter 2022. The one-off effect of the Russia-Ukraine war pushed the equity trading volume for the year 2022 to EUR 58.28 billion, 6% above the previous year's level With Optiver, a new trading member joined the Vienna Stock Exchange in the last quarter. The issuance markets are challenging due to the market situation. In bond listings, the Vienna Stock Exchange is defying the general trend with high new listings.

FlexTrade Integrates Glimpse Markets Data To Optimise Price Discovery In Fixed-Income Trading - Seamless And Improved Visualisation Of Glimpse Markets Pooled Trading Data In FlexFI

Date 04/10/2022

FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems and Glimpse Markets, a buy-side data sharing platform for bond markets, announced the full integration of Glimpse trading data into FlexTrade’s Fixed Income EMS solution: FlexFI.

One Account, 20,000 Markets – INFINOX Launches Ix Exchange Platform To Turn Up Uk Investors' Trading Power

Date 04/10/2022

• Trading almost any asset, almost anywhere, is now possible for UK investors with the launch of the global trading provider INFINOX's IX Exchange platform
• IX Exchange runs alongside INFINOX's existing MetaTrader-powered platform, giving clients access to over 20,000 investments – including equities, ETFs and bonds on all major global exchanges – from one account
• IX Exchange enables investors to diversify their holdings and hedge their portfolio, making both long-term investments and lightning-quick speculative trades