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ADX Unveils Rebranded Growth Market To Encourage Private Sector Listings

Date 14/04/2022

The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has announced the rebranding of its Second Market, a key equity market on the exchange that connects investors and privately owned business, complementing Abu Dhabi’s fast-developing ecosystem for companies that are looking to catalyse their growth. The Growth Market, which replaces the Second Market established in 2014, offers companies access to a wide investor base, key support from the ADX on investor engagement and an opportunity to enhance their brand equity.

Geopolitical Turmoil Proves The MiFID II Doomsayers Right - Competition For The Provision Of Investment Research Decreases Due To MiFID II: Bulge-Bracket Providers Reassert Dominance

Date 14/04/2022

Substantive Research, the research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buy-side, today published findings of its latest asset management survey identifying recent research pricing trends and expectation for research spend in 2022. They point to a select group of bulge-bracket brokers gaining more power and market share, as market and geopolitical turmoil ensures that the buy-side lean even more heavily on their core brokers. 

SGX Securities Welcomes iWOW Technology Limited To Catalist 

Date 14/04/2022

SGX Securities is pleased to welcome iWOW Technology Limited to Catalist under the stock code “NXR”.  

Montréal Exchange Interest Rate Derivative Trading Ceases At 13:30 April 14, 2022 - Exchange's Markets Closed April 15, 2022

Date 14/04/2022

Interest rate derivative trading will cease at 1:30 p.m. today, April 14, 2022. Furthermore, the Exchange's markets will be closed on April 15, 2022.

NWC Strongly Supports SEC Proposed Whistleblower Program Amendments

Date 13/04/2022

On Thursday April 7, National Whistleblower Center (NWC) submitted a formal comment to the SEC regarding proposed amendments to the SEC’s whistleblower program, released on February 10, 2022.

CFTC Charges Wisconsin Woman And Her Companies With Fraud And Misappropriation

Date 13/04/2022

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against Kay Yang of Mequon, Wisconsin, and her companies, AK Equity Group LLC and Xapphire LLC. The complaint charges Yang, AK Equity, and Xapphire with fraud and misappropriation related to an off-exchange foreign currency (forex) trading scheme in which they solicited funds totaling at least $15.7 million from at least 67 investors. Yang’s husband, Chao Yang, is named as a relief defendant for receiving investor funds to which he was not entitled. 

ESAs See Recovery Stalling Amid Existing And New Risks

Date 13/04/2022

Global X Launches Green Building ETF Tracking Solactive Green Building Index

Date 13/04/2022

As momentum builds in global climate policy, developing and retrofitting green buildings and infrastructure are quickly becoming an important sector of real estate. Green buildings are fundamental to climate change mitigation policies as innovative technology, like artificial intelligence and engineered wood, allow buildings to reduce their environmental impact through lower energy consumption.

Remarks By US Secretary Of The Treasury Janet L. Yellen On Way Forward For The Global Economy

Date 13/04/2022

My thanks to Fred and the Atlantic Council for hosting me today. 

The course of the global economy over the past two years has been shaped by COVID-19 and our efforts to fight the pandemic.  It’s now evident though that the war between Russia and Ukraine has redrawn the contours of the world economic outlook. 

FSB - Call For Papers: Vulnerabilities From Liquidity Mismatch In Open-Ended Funds And Policies To Address Them

Date 13/04/2022

The Financial Stability Board and International Organization of Securities Commissions invite submissions of papers for a conference on the financial stability risks arising from liquidity mismatch in open-ended funds (OEFs) and on policies to address them.