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SEC Charges Health Care Co. And Two Former Employees For Accounting Improprieties

Date 22/02/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges and an $18 million penalty against Baxter International Inc. for engaging in improper intra-company foreign exchange transactions that resulted in the misstatement of the company’s net income. The SEC also announced settled charges against Baxter’s former treasurer and assistant treasurer, Scott Bohaboy and Jeffrey Schaible, respectively, for their misconduct related to these transactions.
U.S. Treasury Imposes Immediate Economic Costs In Response To Actions In The Donetsk And Luhansk Regions - The United States Remains Fully Prepared To Impose Further, Expansive Economic Costs - New Sector Determination Enables Treasury To Target Russia’s Entire Financial System

Date 22/02/2022

Today, the United States is taking action to respond to President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR) as “independent” states and to deploy troops to these regions by sanctioning two major Russian state-owned financial institutions, imposing additional restrictions on Russian sovereign debt, and sanctioning five Kremlin-connected elites. This action from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) builds on yesterday’s Executive Order imposing severe restrictions on economic activity with the DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine.
CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 22/02/2022

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
CalPERS Names Nicole Musicco New Chief Investment Officer

Date 22/02/2022

Completing an international search and extensive recruitment process, the California Public Employees’ Pension Retirement System (CalPERS) announced today the appointment of Nicole Musicco as its new chief investment officer. Musicco is only the second woman to lead the investment operations for the nation’s largest public pension fund with nearly $500 billion in assets.
FTSE UK Index Series – Indicative Quarterly Review Changes March 2022

Date 22/02/2022

FTSE Russell, the global index provider, advises of the following indicative changes to the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, based on data as at Friday 18 February 2022.

EBA Publishes Annual Assessment Of Banks’ Internal Approaches For The Calculation Of Capital Requirements

Date 22/02/2022

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Reports on the annual market and credit risk benchmarking exercises. These exercises aim at monitoring the consistency of risk weighted assets (RWAs) across all EU institutions authorised to use internal approaches for the calculation of capital requirements. Regarding market risk, for the majority of participating banks, the results confirm low dispersion in the initial market valuation (IMVs) and increased dispersion in the VaR submissions. For credit risk, the variability of RWA remained rather stable, despite the pandemic and banks’ efforts to re-develop or re-calibrate their models to comply with the policies set out in the EBA internal rating-based (IRB) roadmap. A particular focus has been put on analysing the impact of the pandemic and the compensating public measures on the IRB models.
Updated: NGX Inducts 133 New Authorised Dealing Clerks

Date 22/02/2022

Nigerian Exchange Limited (“NGX” or “The Exchange”) inducted a total of 117 Authorised Dealing Clerks from 63 Trading License Holder today, 22 February 2022 charging them to uphold the highest level of ethics and responsibility.
ISDA Responds To Bank Of England And FCA On UK EMIR

Date 22/02/2022

On February 16, 2022, ISDA responded to the joint Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority consultation on changes to reporting requirements, procedures for data quality and registration of trade repositories under the UK implementation of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The consultation sets out proposals for aligning the UK’s derivatives reporting framework with international guidance from the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and International Organization of Securities Commissions. It also covers measures for mandatory delegated reporting requirements, counterparty notifications and reconciliations processes, and the use of XML schemas and global identifiers.
EBA Concludes Its Luanda Leaks Investigation And Points To Significant Differences In Competent Authorities’ Responses To Emerging Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing Risks

Date 22/02/2022

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the findings of its assessment of competent authorities’ responses to the 2020 Luanda leaks. The EBA found that competent authorities across the EU adopted significantly different approaches for identifying and tackling money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks highlighted by the leaks. These approaches varied beyond what the EBA would have expected under a risk-based approach.
Cboe Global Markets Promotes Greg Hoogasian To Executive Vice President, Chief Regulatory Officer

Date 22/02/2022

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today announced the promotion of Greg Hoogasian to Executive Vice President, Chief Regulatory Officer, and appointment to the company's executive leadership team.