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IMF Launches Climate Change Indicators Dashboard

Date 07/04/2021

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today launched a new Climate Change Indicators Dashboard—an international statistical initiative to address the growing need for data in macroeconomic and financial policy analysis to facilitate climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) Announces Its Transformation Into A Holding Company (Saudi Tadawul Group) In Preparation For IPO

Date 07/04/2021

ESMA Publishes Final Report On SME Growth Markets

Date 07/04/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today published its Final Report on the functioning of the regime for SME Growth Markets (GM) under MiFID/MiFIR. It contains recommendations and possible amendments to the MiFID II framework to the SME GM regime which are needed to improve the attractiveness of the regime.

ESAs Publish Joint Annual Report For 2020

Date 07/04/2021

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – published today its 2020 Annual Report, providing a detailed account of all the joint work completed over the past year.

Spanish Now Available On Bitfinex

Date 07/04/2021

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, is now available in Spanish, providing greater accessibility for the exchange’s growing base of Spanish speaking customers.

Non-Jordanian Ownership In Companies Listed On The Amman Stock Exchange Reached 50.6%

Date 07/04/2021

Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) revealed that the value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors at the ASE in March 2021 was JD20.0 million, representing 10.9% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD23.1 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments in March 2021 showed a negative value of JD3.1 million, whereas the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a negative value of JD4.7 million during the same month of 2020.

Refinance Activity Spiked In February Close To Pandemic Refinance Surge Peak, ICE Mortgage Technology Millennial Tracker Finds

Date 07/04/2021

Refinance activity increased sharply for Millennial borrowers in February, according to the ICE Mortgage Technology™ Millennial Tracker from ICE Mortgage Technology™, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of mortgage technology, data and listings services. According to recent data, refinances closed during this period accounted for 54% of all loans to members of the generation, up from 46% the month prior. This brought refinance share to a level not seen since April 2020 during the peak of the pandemic refinance surge, when it hit 55%.

Alan Allman Associates Lists On Euronext Paris

Date 07/04/2021

Euronext today congratulates Alan Allman Associates, an international ecosystem of consulting firms, on its listing in Compartment C of Euronext’s regulated market in Paris (ticker code: AAA).

Cryptocurrency & Pizza: How This ‘Dough’ Came To Explain So Much, By Luke Stokes

Date 07/04/2021

Since its very early days pizza has played a key role in understanding Bitcoin and conceptualising its utility. When Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin (BTC) in 2010 he was unwittingly making the worst deal of his life - and probably the century - given the stratospheric rise in the ‘Big Daddy’ of cryptocurrencies of late.

US Treasury, IRS Disburse 25 Million More Economic Impact Payments Under The American Rescue Plan - Social Security And Other Beneficiaries Bring Total To More Than 156 Million Payments; VA Beneficiaries Payments To Be Disbursed On April 14

Date 07/04/2021

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced they are disbursing more than 25 million payments in the fourth batch of Economic Impact Payments from the American Rescue Plan.