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Shieldpay Appoints Isabel Pitt As Product Director

Date 11/01/2023

Shieldpay, the market leader in solving complex B2B payments, has today announced the recent appointment of Isabel Pitt as Product Director. Isabel will lead the Product team under the recently appointed CTPO Andrew Hawkins and will further develop the company’s product offerings in line with its next stage of innovation and growth.

Borsa İstanbul’s Opening Bell Rang For QNB Finansbank Clean Energy Index

Date 11/01/2023

Within the framework of its activities on sustainability and combating climate change, QNB Finansbank has added the QNB Finansbank Clean Energy Index to the capital market instruments it offers to investors. On January 11, QNB Finansbank Clean Energy Index was launched with the Opening Bell Ceremony held at Borsa İstanbul. The ceremony was held with the attendance of Borsa İstanbul A.Ş. CEO Korkmaz Ergun, QNB Finansbank Chairman Ömer Aras, QNB Finansbank CEO Ömür Tan, QNB Finansportföy Chairman Enis Kurtoğlu, QNB Finansportföy CEO Egemen Erden and QNB Finansbank Committee Chairman Yeliz Ataay Arıkök.

Egypt's Prime Minister Discusses With FRA & EGX Latest Developments Of The Capital Market And Non-banking Financial Services Sector

Date 11/01/2023

Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Egyptian Prime Minister, held a meeting with Dr. Mohamed Farid, Chairman of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), and Mr. Rami El-Dokany, Chairman of The Egyptian Exchange (EGX), to follow up on the latest developments in the Egyptian capital market.

CUBE Acquires The Hub To Extend Further Its Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) Technology

Date 11/01/2023

CUBE, a global leader in Automated Regulatory Intelligence (“ARI”), today announced its acquisition of The Hub, a leading RegTech firm providing highly innovative artificial intelligence solutions for capturing and monitoring unstructured data across the regulatory internet.

Trading Platform pnladvanced.de: BaFin Expands Its Investigation

Date 11/01/2023

On 30 November 2022, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) published a notice on its website to inform the public that it had opened supervisory investigations into the operators of the platform pnladvanced.com. It has since emerged that an almost identical website is being operated at pnladvanced.de. On this website too, the operator is simply referred to as “PNL Advanced” or “PnL Advanced” and no details are given regarding the operator’s legal form. As with the platform pnladvanced.com, the website contains no legal notice and no information regarding the operator’s registered office. In accordance with section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), BaFin would like to make clear that the operator of the trading platform pnladvanced.de does not hold authorisation under the KWG to conduct banking business or provide financial services. It is still the case that this company is not supervised by BaFin.

Coincover Appoints Katharine Wooller As Business Unit Director To Conclude Year Of Rapid Growth - As An Award-Winning And Published Industry Expert, New Hire Will Accelerate Coincover At Critical Time For Crypto Industry

Date 11/01/2023

Today, Coincover – the leading digital asset protection technology company – announces the appointment of Katharine Wooller as Business Unit Director, bolstering the firm’s profile with her extensive expertise. The news concludes a year of tremendous growth for the company, just months after Coincover launched its new staking technology and exclusive partnership with  Pranksy®’s NFTboxes®.

Retail Investors More Bullish On Equity Indices At Year End: Spectrum Markets

Date 11/01/2023

• SERIX sentiment indicator for all US and European equity indices trended bullish in December
• Trading likely driven by expectation of ‘December bounce’ and short-term profit-taking
• 116 million securitised derivatives were traded on Spectrum last month

CME Group Achieves Record International Average Daily Volume Of 6.3 Million Contracts In 2022, Up 15% From 2021

Date 11/01/2023

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that it achieved record international average daily volume (ADV) of 6.3 million contracts in 2022, up 15% from 2021. This record, reflecting all trading done outside the United States, was driven largely by growth in Equity Index and Foreign Exchange products, up 26% and 22% respectively.

Solactive Acquires Minerva Analytics, The ESG Research, Stewardship Support And Proxy Voting Agency, Further Enhancing Its Leading Position In Sustainable Finance

Date 11/01/2023

Amid a global push towards trustworthy and granular ESG data, rigorous reporting and engagement on sustainability issues by investors, German index provider Solactive is pleased to announce its acquisition of Minerva Analytics, the UK-based stewardship solutions provider. The move follows Solactive’s minority investment in Minerva in May 2019. 

4 Times Faster Data Distribution And System Stability Further Increased: Vienna Stock Exchange Renews Data Feed

Date 11/01/2023

This week, the Vienna Stock Exchange's new market data distribution infrastructure goes live. Over 270 customers receive stock market data from 11 markets four times faster. The software as well as the hardware and the operating system of the ADH data feed (Alliance Data Highway) were upgraded to the latest technical standards by the IT experts of the Vienna Stock Exchange in close coordination with its customers. This step further increases the stability of the system and lowers the latency once again. The parallel operation, which will run until 3 April, makes it easier for customers to switch. The introduction of a permanent simulation environment as well as a production-like test environment will enable customers to run extensive and complex test scenarios in the future.