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Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters On Securities Market - Update

Date 22/04/2021

CCP NCC will set the following risk parameters on Securities market due to corporate actions:

interactive-trading.com: BaFin Investigates Innovative Software Solutions LLC

Date 22/04/2021

In accordance with section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), BaFin wishes to clarify that Innovative Software Solutions LLC, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, has not been granted authorisation to conduct banking business or to provide financial services, as required under the KWG. The company is not subject to BaFin’s supervision.

MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu to Receive CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications - Panel Of Leading Economists To Discuss Perils And Promise Of Big Data

Date 22/04/2021

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), announced its 15th Innovative Quantitative Applications Prize recipient.   Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the 2020 CME Group-MSRI Prize winner for his work in economics and mathematics. A virtual event honoring Acemoglu will be hosted by CME Group on May 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. CT.

Two Million More Economic Impact Payments Disbursed Under The American Rescue Plan; Total Reaches Approximately 161 Million As Payments Continue

Date 22/04/2021

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced they are disbursing nearly 2 million payments in the sixth batch of Economic Impact Payments from the American Rescue Plan.

BIS: Growth, Coal And Carbon Emissions: Economic Overheating And Climate Change

Date 22/04/2021

Summary

Focus

Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. It poses unprecedented risks to our economies. By the end of the century, global temperatures are likely to rise by 3 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels, and could rise even more. To avoid a climate catastrophe we need to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide that drives climate change. Therefore, our economies need to change. To devise the right policies, policymakers need to map macroeconomic variables into carbon emissions.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Letter Of Concerns In Relation To Provident's Proposed Scheme Of Arrangement

Date 22/04/2021

Provident's application for permission from the court to hold meetings of its scheme creditors to vote on a scheme of arrangement (the 'Scheme') was heard at the High Court today.

MIAX And SIG Index Licensing To Launch Corporate Tax Rate Futures On MGEX New Futures - Contracts Provide An Innovative Tool To Manage Tax Risk; Set To Launch On May 24, 2021

Date 22/04/2021

MIAX®, creator and operator of high-performance securities exchanges, products and services, and SIG Index Licensing, LLC (SIG Index Licensing) will launch cash-settled futures contracts on SIG Index Licensing’s U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Index. The new futures contracts will begin trading on May 24, 2021.

Why Black Inclusion Matters To Us - Speech By Sheldon Mills, Executive Director, Consumers And Competition, Delivered At New Financial

Date 22/04/2021

Highlights

• There is a lack of black people across senior roles in financial services, and there is a strong business case for improving diversity and inclusion at senior levels, with black inclusion being an important part of that. 
• The racism that many black people face in the workplace is not overt, but subtle and insidious, and it adds obstacles for black people to succeed.
• Black inclusion is important to us as a regulator. We want firms to consider how they can accelerate black inclusion at all levels as part of their diversity and inclusion agendas. Data plays an important role in driving transparency and action.
• We have recognised our own challenges as an employer and are taking action as an employer to improve black, Asian and minority ethnic representation and inclusion.  

Borsa Istanbul: Launch Of New SSF Contracts In Derivatives Market

Date 22/04/2021

New single stock futures contracts based on AEFES, ALKIM, ECILC, HEKTS, IPEKE, ISFIN, ISGYO, KARSN, MPARK, ODAS, SKBNK, TRGYO and TURSG underlyings were open to trade in Derivatives Market on April 22, 2021. Please click for the related Announcement.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters On Securities Market

Date 22/04/2021

CCP NCC will set the following risk parameters on Securities market starting from April 23, 2021: