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Bahrain's Cashless Payments Surge To $3.62bn In First Half Of 2021

Date 07/09/2021

The number of POS and Ecommerce transactions in Bahrain shot up by 65% in August, year-on-year, reaching a total value of nearly $744 million during the month, after topping $3.62 billion in the first half of 2021, the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) revealed today.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change On Securities Market

Date 07/09/2021

CCP NCC will exclude the following shares from assets accepted as collateral on Securities market starting from September 17, 2021:

State Street To Acquire Brown Brothers Harriman Investor Services

Date 07/09/2021

• State Street Will Become the World’s #1 Provider of Asset Servicing1
• Brings Together Two Premier Businesses with Significant Scale to Drive Benefits for Clients and Shareholders
• Earnings Accretion Expected in Year 13
• State Street Increases Pre-Tax Margin Medium-Term Financial Target

Fresh Attempts To Pump Up Bitcoin Fall Flat As El Salvador Adopts Currency, Susannah Streeter, Senior Investment And Markets Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown

Date 07/09/2021

’Attempts to pump up the price of Bitcoin to celebrate its adoption as legal tender in El Salvador have fallen flat with the cryptocurrency deflating in value slightly over the past 24 hours.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security RU000A0JWGV2

Date 07/09/2021

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 07.09.2021, 13-39 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 108.03) and initial margins (up to 10 %) for the security RU000A0JWGV2 were changed. New values are available here

RiskBusiness Launches GDPR Equivalency Checker In Response To Schrems II Personal Data Privacy Requirements

Date 07/09/2021

RiskBusiness Services Limited, the leading provider of governance, risk, audit and compliance SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions announced today the availability of a GDPR Equivalency Checker feature as an integral component of its Graci governance, risk, audit and compliance solution. The new feature is targeted at companies that need to comply with the “Schrems II” personal data privacy shield legislation that comes into effect on September 27, 2021. 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 07/09/2021

The following risk parameters will be changed:

Shanghai Gold Exchange: Data Highlights - August, 2021

Date 07/09/2021

The monthly report of data highlights (August, 2021) is now available online.

Record Revenue And Profit For TISE In H1 2021

Date 07/09/2021

H1 2021 highlights at TISE

• Revenue increased 16.3% year-on-year to a record £4.7 million
• Profit increased 45.4% year-on-year to a record £2.4 million
• Earnings per share increased to a record 84.8p
• Record listing volumes on TISE
• Focused on executing strategy to sustain future growth

Liquidnet Launches Primary Markets Offering With Goal To Electronify The Full Life Cycle Of A Bond - Liquidnet Becomes The First Agency Broker To Bring Innovation To Both The Primary And Secondary Bond Markets

Date 07/09/2021

Liquidnet, the global institutional investment network, today announced the launch of Liquidnet Primary Markets, a new offering providing an electronified Debt Capital Markets (DCM) workflow for new issue announcements alongside a new protocol for trading new issues.