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  • BIS: Big Techs vs Banks

    Date 31/08/2022

    Summary

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    Large technology firms ("big techs") have access to massive amounts of data about firms that operate on their online platforms or use their QR-code payment systems. While this information can be harnessed to improve the assessment of a firm's credit risk, it may also lead to "data dominance", when the big tech can extract rents from the firm and reduce its profits to the minimum. In the case of e-commerce platforms, data dominance is compounded by the fact that firms are somewhat captive in the big tech ecosystem. In fact, defaulting on a big tech loan could cause a firm not only to be excluded from future loans (as in the traditional case of bank lending) but also to be shut out from the e-commerce platform and its payment services.

  • Interest Rates And Inflation Push ESG To Backseat As A Trading Driver For Remainder Of 2022 - Annual Trader Survey From Switzerland’s SIX Swiss Exchange Reveals Shift Across The Industry As Economic Drivers Take Hold

    Date 31/08/2022

    Today, SIX released the findings of the latest SIX Swiss Exchange Trader Survey, revealing that traders across Europe are more concerned with economic drivers like interest rates and inflation over geopolitical drivers like the conflict in the Ukraine. Also revealing is the fact that traders, when responding to the survey, viewed ESG investing as a lower driver of trading activity for the remainder of 2022, receiving only 7 of a total of 194 votes (see chart).

  • FX HedgePool Raises $8 Million In Series A Funding To Expand Platform And Grow Community

    Date 31/08/2022

    • The investment, led by Information Venture Partners (Information VP), with participation from Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (FISV) and NAventures, National Bank of Canada's corporate venture capital arm, represents the latest modernization of the institutional FX market by the fintech company --

     

  • MNI Indicators: Chicago Business Barometer™ – Stabilizes At 52.2 In August

    Date 31/08/2022

    Key Points – August Report

    The Chicago Business BarometerTM, produced with MNI, all but stood still in August. The indicator inched up 0.1 points to 52.2, following the June/July slide which saw the Chicago Report™ fall to the lowest level since August 2020.

  • Bybit Partners With Circle, Plans To Launch USDC Spot Pairs And Offer Integrations For Clients

    Date 31/08/2022

    Bybit, the third largest crypto derivatives exchange in the world by volume, has partnered with Circle Internet Financial, a global digital financial technology firm and the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EUROC) to help accelerate the growth of Bybit as a gateway for retail and institutional USDC-settled products.