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SEC Charges Eight Companies For Failure To Disclose Complete Information On Form NT

Date 29/04/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged eight companies for failing to disclose in SEC Form 12b-25 filings that their request for seeking a delayed quarterly or annual reporting filing was caused by an anticipated restatement or correction of prior financial reporting. The violations were uncovered by an initiative focused on Form 12b-25 filings by companies that quickly thereafter announced financial restatements or corrections. Each of the companies was a public reporting company at the time of the violations and agreed to settle the Commission's charges and pay civil penalties.

Canadian Securities Regulators Seek Comment On Proposed Framework For Commodity Benchmarks

Date 29/04/2021

The securities regulatory authorities of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia today published for comment a proposed framework for the designation and regulation of commodity benchmarks and the persons or companies that administer them.

SEC Market Structure Data: Q1 2021 Data Now Available

Date 29/04/2021

SEC Staff is pleased to provide you with the following updates:

•  Updated Metrics. Data series containing daily cancel-to-trade ratios, trade-order volumes, hidden rates, and odd-lot rate metrics for Q1 2021 are now available. This data extends to 111 total months the data series you can view in the data visualization tool as well as download in CSV format. The visualization for quote-life data now defaults to Q1 2021.

Oleg Viyugin Re-elected As Chairman Of The Moscow Exchange Supervisory Board

Date 29/04/2021

The Supervisory Board newly elected at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held its first meeting on 29 April 2021. The Board includes 12 directors, eight of whom are independent directors.

Canadian Securities Regulators Establish Regulatory Regime For Financial Benchmarks

Date 29/04/2021

The securities regulatory authorities of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia today adopted final rules to establish a Canadian regulatory regime for financial benchmarks.

Appointment Of Finansinspektionen’s Director General Has Been Extended

Date 29/04/2021

The Government has decided to extend Erik Thedéen’s employment as director general and head of Finansinspektionen by three years.

PNC Bank Joins The American Financial Exchange®

Date 29/04/2021

The American Financial Exchange (AFX) announced today that PNC Bank, N.A., has joined the exchange, a transparent, rules-based and self-regulated electronic market for overnight and term unsecured lending among banks, financials and corporates. 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security MRK-RM

Date 29/04/2021

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 29.04.2021, 17-47 (MSK) the lower bound of the price band (up to 5231) and initial margins (up to 15 %) for the security MRK-RM were changed. New values are available here

Avelacom Survey Finds Bulk Of Proprietary Trading Firms That Are Actively Trading Crypto Plan To Connect To More Exchanges For Greater Arbitrage Opportunities - Those Already Trading Crypto Assets Are Early Adopters Of Crypto Derivatives, Trade On Multiple Venues And Are Concerned With Latency.

Date 29/04/2021

A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom and Deribit, offers insights on how proprietary trading firms are approaching the cryptocurrency markets, both spot and derivatives. The survey also explores how this differs between those firms created specifically to trade these assets vs firms entering these markets alongside their existing business trading “traditional” assets.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities EBAY-RM, F-RM, NOW-RM

Date 29/04/2021

Please follow the links below to access the information:

Risk parameters change for the security EBAY-RM
Risk parameters change for the security F-RM
Risk parameters change for the security NOW-RM