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Joint Industry Letter On The Importance Of Linking The UK ETS With The EU ETS

Date 15/04/2021

Europex has joined with over 40 leading industry associations to call on the EU and UK to begin the process of linking the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) with the new UK Emissions Trading System (UK ETS) as soon as practicable. We welcome the commitment to ‘serious consideration’ which the UK and EU have given to linking their respective carbon pricing systems in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), and believe that linkage negotiations should begin as soon as possible.

FinEx Licenses Solactive Index for new International Equity ETF

Date 15/04/2021

International markets provide unique diversification opportunities for investors. Especially in times of economic uncertainty, having viable instruments of portfolio diversification at hand becomes utterly vital. FinEx ETF, the leader of the booming Russian ETF market, launches an Exchange Traded Fund aimed precisely at delivering investors this opportunity. The fund, which is the FinEx Developed Markets ex-USA UCITS ETF, tracks the Solactive GBS Developed Markets ex United States 200 USD Index. The launch builds on the recent successful engagement between FinEx and Solactive – with nine funds already successfully traded on Moscow Exchange and other venues.

Cosmos (ATOM) Available As Collateral On Bitfinex Borrow After Poll Win

Date 15/04/2021

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has added Cosmos (ATOM) as collateral on Bitfinex Borrow, the platform’s peer-to-peer (P2P) digital token loan portal, after it was successful in a social media poll.

TheCityUK Unveils Plan To Support The UK’s Post-Pandemic And Post-Brexit Economic Future

Date 15/04/2021

TheCityUK today publishes its plan to ensure the strength of the UK-based financial and related professional services industry helps to power recovery and growth over the next decade as the UK emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic and makes its way in the world outside of the EU.

BNP Paribas Goes Live On CurveGlobal Markets Listed Futures Exchange For Traders

Date 15/04/2021

CurveGlobal is delighted to announce that BNP Paribas is now live for their house STIR traders, enabling them to access the CurveGlobal short-term interest rate futures that clear at LCH. This complements their client offering of execution and clearing services on CurveGlobal.

Introducing HKEX's New Podcast - HKEXVoice

Date 15/04/2021

EP1: A look at the growth and development of Hong Kong’s derivatives market | Wilfred Yiu

EDHEC-Risk Institute: The Performance Of Hedge Funds Strategies Is Riding The Stock Market Wave

Date 15/04/2021

The EDHEC-Risk team is pleased to release the latest performance update of the EDHEC-Risk Alternative Indexes.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Bans And Fines Financial Adviser £68,300 For Lacking Honesty And Integrity

Date 15/04/2021

The FCA has banned Simon Varley from working in financial services and fined him £68,300 for knowingly performing a controlled function without approval and for providing investment advice to retail customers when he knew he was not qualified or approved to do so.

Moscow Exchange: The Additional Trading Session Starts Later For Derivatives Market On 5, 6, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 May 2021

Date 15/04/2021

Please note that the Derivatives Market evening trading session will begin five minutes later, i.e. at 7:05 pm MSK, on 5, 6, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 May 2021, as these are the last trading days for options contracts (in accordance with clause 6.2 of the Rules of organized trading for the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market).

Barclays Clears The First Client Trade Through ForexClear’s International Clearing Broker Model

Date 15/04/2021

• Barclays and LCH’s ForexClear process the first FX client clearing trade under the international clearing broker model
• Barclays is offering clearing of FX derivatives to its clients
• Allows Barclays clients access to LCH’s clearing services, benefitting from risk management and operational efficiencies
• ForexClear provides client and dealer-to-dealer clearing services for FX Non-Deliverable Forwards and Options as well as dealer-to-dealer clearing services for Deliverable FX Options, Spot and Forwards
• In 2020, ForexClear processed $19.1 trillion in cleared notional; $167.2 billion of this was cleared by clients