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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.

ESMA Recommends Use Of DTI Codes For Digital Asset Regulatory Reporting - In Preparation For New Regulations, All Commonly Traded Digital Assets Have Been Assigned ISO-Standard DTI Codes

Date 11/01/2023

ISO-standard DTI codes, issued by the DTI Foundation, have been recommended by ESMA for use under its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot regulatory regime. The DTI Foundation, a trading division of Etrading Software, is responsible for issuing DTI codes, to bring ISO-based standardisation to the digital asset and crypto trading marketplace. The DTI Foundation has already issued ISO identification codes for over a thousand of the most commonly traded digital assets, with more codes being added each day. 

London Stock Exchange Group PLC Transaction In Own Shares

Date 11/01/2023

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (Morgan Stanley) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022:

Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Achieves Record Level Trading Volume For 2022

Date 11/01/2023

Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia Derivatives” or “the Exchange”) today reported an all-time high in yearly trading volume for all its products, as well as for Crude Palm Oil Futures (“FCPO”) for the year 2022. A total of 19.1 million contracts were traded, surpassing the previous record of 18.4 million contracts in 2021 by 3.7 percent. For FCPO, a total of 16.2 million contracts were traded in 2022, breaking the previous record of 15.6 million by 3.8 percent.