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CFTC Commissioner Mersinger To Participate At The Texas Blockchain Summit

Date 15/11/2022

“Good Counsellors”, Remarks Before The Investment Adviser/Investment Company National Seminar: Compliance Outreach Program, SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Washington D.C., Nov. 15, 2022

Date 15/11/2022

Good morning. Welcome to the Compliance Outreach Program of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investment Adviser/Investment Company National Seminar.

LiquidityBook Launches LBX Portal, New OEMS Partnership Model Emphasizing Workflow Efficiencies For Both Sell Side And Buy Side - New Solution Enables Brokers And Outsourced Trading Desks To Streamline Client Operations By Delivering Robust Trade Management Capabilities With A Single Overlay, While Offering End Clients On The Buy Side Clear And Simple Paths To Upgrade As They Grow

Date 15/11/2022

LiquidityBook, a leading provider of cloud-native trading solutions for the buy and sell sides, today announced the launch of LBX Portal, a breakthrough SaaS-based solution that promises new levels of efficiency, transparency and speed for market participants. LBX Portal presents clear, preconfigured solutions appropriate for different client needs and enables sell-side firms to deliver a wide range of OEMS capabilities to their clients while streamlining their own workflows.

Current Climate Scenario Analysis Exercises May Understate Climate Exposures And Vulnerabilities, Warn FSB And NGFS

Date 15/11/2022

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) and Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) published today a joint report outlining initial findings from climate scenario analyses undertaken by financial authorities to assess climate-related financial risks. The report draws lessons for effective scenario analysis and sketches out a global perspective. It has been sent to G20 Leaders ahead of the Bali Summit.

ESMA Publishes Latest Edition Of Its Newsletter

Date 15/11/2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its latest edition of its Spotlight on Markets Newsletter.

BME: The 24th Latibex Forum Starts Next Monday, 21 November

Date 15/11/2022

• The benchmark event on investing in Latin America returns to its original face-to-face format after two years
• More than 45 European investors and a hundred listed companies will take part in the Forum, which will include panel discussions and one-to-one meetings.
• Issues such as geopolitical tensions, ESG investment, digitalization and regional investment opportunities in Latin America will be discussed on the panels.

IFC Launches New Platform To Bolster Venture Capital Ecosystems In Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, And Pakistan

Date 15/11/2022

To help build the digital economy in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan, IFC has launched a new $225 million platform to strengthen venture capital ecosystems and invest in early-stage companies addressing development challenges through technological innovations in climate, health care, education, agriculture, e-commerce, and other sectors.

GLEIF And SWIFT Collaborate To Enable Interoperability Across Multiple Identity Platforms - GLEIF Grows LEI Mapping Capability Across Global Entity Identifier Systems With Latest Certification Linking It To The Market Identifier Code (MIC)

Date 15/11/2022

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) today announces that it has expanded the scope of its collaboration with Swift by providing certification for the mapping of the Market Identifier Code (MIC) to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The resulting launch of a new open-source file mapping the MIC to the LEI will further enable market participants that use GLEIF and / or Swift data, such as financial institutions and public authorities involved in risk analysis and market monitoring, to link and cross-reference key entity identifiers, free of charge. This will ease the process of gathering, aggregating and reconciling counterparty information based on interoperability across parallel identity platforms.

eToro Partners With Broadridge For Proxy Voting, Enabling Retail Investors’ Voices To Be Heard

Date 15/11/2022

• Younger investors most keen to have a say at AGMs, with 80% of 18-34s ready to vote
• Dividends, exec pay and climate strategy are issues retail investors most want a say on

Wall Street WhatsApp Fines – Small Firms Could Be Next, Warns SteelEye - Only 4% Of Smaller Financial Firms View Increasing The Coverage Of Different Communications Channels As A Compliance Priority Despite Multi-Billion-Dollar Fines Against Some Of The World’s Most Powerful Financial Institutions

Date 15/11/2022

Over the past 12 months, several of the biggest players in the financial services industry have received multi-million-dollar fines for failing to monitor off-channel communications, and it is only a matter of time until regulators start to target the next tier, warns RegTech leader SteelEye.