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SEC: Rita Sampson Named Director Of Office Of Equal Employment Opportunity

Date 16/02/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Rita M. Sampson has been named Director of the agency’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity (OEEO).  

BIS - Exorbitant Privilege? Quantitative Easing And The Bond Market Subsidy Of Prospective Fallen Angels

Date 16/02/2022

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Massive issuance by BBB-rated firms has propelled growth of the US corporate bond market since the Great Financial Crisis. In this paper we investigate how quantitative easing (QE) boosted demand for BBB bonds and how it interacted with credit rating agencies' leniency to generate capital misallocation reminiscent of zombie lending.

Letter ‘The Importance Of Protecting The EU ETS From Damaging Interventions’

Date 16/02/2022

FESE together with other nine industry associations co-signed a letter urging the European Commission not to intervene in the ETS ahead of the publication of ESMA’s final report on the EU Carbon Market.

ESMA Proposes Reforms To Improve Resilience Of Money Market Funds

Date 16/02/2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, is issuing an Opinion containing proposed reforms to the regulatory framework for EU Money Market Funds (MMFs) under the Money Market Funds Regulation (MMFR). The proposals will improve the resilience of MMFs by addressing in particular liquidity issues and the threshold effects for constant net asset value (CNAV) MMFs.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security GNRC-RM

Date 16/02/2022

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 16.02.2022, 18-06 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 24885) and initial margins (up to 32.5 %) for the security GNRC-RM were changed.

CanDeal And IHS Markit Partner To Set New Industry Standard For Canadian Fixed Income Price Accessibility

Date 16/02/2022

CanDeal, the leading provider of Canadian financial markets, data and information services, is integrating its proprietary market data into the IHS Markit platform providing a new level of fixed income pricing accessibility for the Canadian market. With the unparalleled accuracy of dealer-sourced pricing that CanDeal Data & Analytics (DNA) provides, this partnership will directly address one of the most pressing issues facing Canadian capital markets.

Nasdaq Private Fund Manager Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Data Now Available Free To Investors

Date 16/02/2022

Starting today, qualifying investors can receive free access to private fund manager diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) data via the Nasdaq eVestment platform, a provider of institutional investment data and analytics to asset owners and asset managers.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security VIAC-RM

Date 16/02/2022

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 16.02.2022, 17-38 (MSK) the lower bound of the price band (up to 1818) and initial margins (up to 53.75 %) for the security VIAC-RM were changed.

Tradeweb Announces Changes To Board And Succession Plans For Executive Leadership

Date 16/02/2022

• Lee Olesky Succeeds Martin Brand as Chairman,   Will Retire as CEO at End of 2022
• William Hult Elected as Next CEO, Effective January 1, 2023
• Paula Madoff Appointed as Lead Independent Director

Applied Blockchain Receives Grant From Algorand Foundation For London Bridge Solution

Date 16/02/2022

• London Bridge will allow the secure integration of Algorand with other blockchain networks, in particular Ethereum, in order to enable seamless integration and bi-directional liquidity flows.
• This Bridge will tackle the liquidity challenges that the Algorand ecosystem faces. Despite Algorand being increasingly attractive for decentralised application developers, other blockchain platforms like Ethereum, having been created a number of years earlier and having a headstart in the developer community, are currently home to a majority of DeFi and NFT liquidity.
• The London Bridge integration aims to solve this challenge and allow the increasing number of applications that are developed on Algorand to seamlessly integrate with other chains, providing a more active ecosystem for DeFi, NFT’s and other applications.