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Canadian Securities Regulators On Track To Publish Final Amendments To Enhance Protection Of Older And Vulnerable Clients

Date 15/04/2021

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is on track to publish the final amendments that will enhance the protection of older and vulnerable clients across Canada, in early summer 2021.

ICE Mortgage Technology Sets Records With Experience 2021 - Experience 2022 Scheduled To Take Place March 14-16, 2022 At The Wynn Las Vegas

Date 15/04/2021

ICE Mortgage TechnologyTM, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today shared that its annual Experience conference, which was conducted virtually this year, concluded as the company’s most successful event to-date.

Join A Live Broadcast Of GPW’s 30-Year Anniversary

Date 15/04/2021

• The celebrations will take place in the presence of President Andrzej Duda.
• The event will feature an address by Deputy Prime Ministers Jacek Sasin and Jarosław Gowin as well as panel discussions with CEOs of listed companies.
• President of Poland Andrzej Duda is the Honorary Patron of GPW’s anniversary.
• The event will be broadcast online at 30latgpw.pl

Updated: Kinesis Launches Government-Backed Monetary System In Partnership With PT Pos In Indonesia - In Partnership With ABX, ICDX And PT Bullion Ecosystem International, Kinesis Has Launched The First Government-Backed, Sharia Compliant, Gold-Based Financial Infrastructure Ever Created.

Date 15/04/2021

Kinesis, the monetary system based on 1:1 allocated physical gold and silver, today announces the soft launch of PT Pos Indonesia’s physical gold-based digital Sharia product, PosGO Syariah.

EBA Published Final Draft Technical Standards Specifying The Methods Of Prudential Consolidation

Date 15/04/2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the conditions according to which consolidation shall be carried out in line with Article 18 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The aim of these draft RTS is to ensure that the appropriate method of prudential consolidation is applied for the calculation of the CRR requirements on a consolidated basis. Compared to the Consultation Paper, the final draft RTS have been revised also to reflect the amendments introduced as part of the Risk Reduction Measures Package adopted by the European legislators.

ESMA Highlights Need For Increased Efforts On EMIR And SFTR Data Quality

Date 15/04/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, today published its final report on the European Markets Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR) and Securitised Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) data quality. The report covers the progress made to date in improving EMIR data quality for regulatory and supervisory use and concludes that, while good progress has been made, additional efforts are needed by national competent authorities (NCAs) and ESMA to further improve EMIR data quality.

EBA Updates List Of Other Systemically Important Institutions

Date 15/04/2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) updated today the list of Other Systemically Important Institutions (O-SIIs) in the EU, which, together with Global Systemically Important Institutions (G-SIIs), are identified as systemically important by the relevant authorities according to harmonised criteria laid down in the EBA Guidelines. This list is based on end-2019 data and also reflects the O-SII score and the capital buffers that the relevant authorities have set for the identified O-SIIs. The list of O-SIIs is available also in a user-friendly visualisation tool, including the information on O-SII buffers assigned to identify institutions across the EU and the achieved overall score.

FESE: European Capital Markets Fact Sheet

Date 15/04/2021

• Equity market capitalisation and the number of listed companies increased both quarterly and year-on-year. 
• IPOs and IPO investment flows experienced large increases, continuing their Q4 trend. 
• Equity trades and turnover had a quarterly surge but declined year-on-year. 
• Options and futures trading rose on a quarterly basis but has decreased from this time last year. 
• Securitised derivatives turnover grew quarterly but fell year-on-year. 
• ETFs and UCITS turnover significantly increased this quarter but still saw a year-on-year decline. 
• Bonds turnover has soared since last quarter.

Moscow Exchange Changes The Tick Size From The 4th Of May 2021

Date 15/04/2021

To increase the effectiveness of equity market microstructure, MOEX establishes the new tick size and Decimals parameter for the following stocks starting 4th May 2021 in the following trading modes:

BIS: Capital Flows, Exchange Rates And Monetary Policy Frameworks In Latin American And Other Economies - A Report By A Group Of Central Banks Including Members Of The Consultative Council For The Americas And The Central Banks Of South Africa And Turkey

Date 15/04/2021

In early 2020, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Representative Office for the Americas contacted a group of nine central banks that includes the members of the Consultative Council of the Americas (CCA) except the US Federal Reserve (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru), and two non-CCA members, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and the South African Reserve Bank, to take stock of their monetary policy frameworks (MPFs) and understand whether they continue to be fit for purpose in the face of rapidly changing economic and financial conditions.