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Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Market Report For February 5th 2021

Date 05/02/2021

A total turnover of 2.767 billion shares worth N29.685 billion in 31,380 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange, in contrast to a total of 2.570 billion shares valued at N27.884 billion that exchanged hands last week in 31,466 deals.

Bitfinex Announces Loan Repayment To Tether

Date 05/02/2021

Bitfinex has confirmed its loan repayment to Tether. Stuart Hoegner, General Counsel at Bitfinex, said:

"Bitfinex is happy to announce that in January it repaid the remaining balance of $550,000,000 of the outstanding revolving loan facility to Tether. Bitfinex made this payment in fiat currency wired to Tether's bank account. The loan has now been repaid early and in full and the line of credit has been cancelled."

Nasdaq Recognized As A “Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Equality” For The Third Consecutive Year - Receives Perfect Score On Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Annual Scorecard Assessing LGBTQ Workplace Equality

Date 05/02/2021

For the third consecutive year, Nasdaq received a 100 percent score on the 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), in recognition of its inclusive workplace. CEI is the nation’s leading benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.

Modern Challenges For The Modern Central Bank: Perspectives From The Bank Of England - Speech By Andrew Bailey, Governor, Bank Of England, Given At The LSE German Symposium

Date 05/02/2021

Overview

Andrew Bailey looks at how central banks are adapting to new types of shocks to the economy. And he focuses on how we use monetary policy to keep inflation under control.

He then talks about how central banks can act, whilst maintaining their reputation for independence.

Historic Flows For ESG ETFs As Assets Surge To New Highs - TrackInsight

Date 05/02/2021

• Record month for ESG – nearly 20% of all ETF flows went green
• ESG ETFs grew 11.5% in January adding $20 Billion of assets
• Thematic ETFs dominate performance - Cannabis spikes as US liberalization hopes grow 

Katherine K. Martin, Associate Director In The Office Of International Affairs, To Leave SEC

Date 05/02/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Katherine K. Martin, Associate Director in the Office of International Affairs, will leave the agency in February after 15 years of public service.

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

Date 05/02/2021

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 05.02.2021, 17-40 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 8070) and initial margins (up to 22.5 %) for the security ATVI-RM were changed. New values are available here

Briclinks Africa Plc Lists On Nigerian Stock Exchange Growth Board

Date 05/02/2021

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) admitted Briclinks Africa Plc to its Growth Board in a listing by introduction of 10 million (10,000,000) ordinary shares of ₦1.00 each at ₦6.26 per share on Friday, 5 February 2021.

Borsa Istanbul: Change Of Rules In Equity Market Opening Session (2021/4)

Date 05/02/2021

For all instruments that are included in the opening session in Equity Market, no market orders and market to limit orders can be placed in the opening sessions, and no order cancellation, price worsening and volume reduction can be made in the last 5 minutes of call auction periods of opening sessions as of March 1st, 2021 . For related Announcement Link: 2021/4.

TMX Group Equity Financing Statistics – January 2021

Date 05/02/2021

TMX Group today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) for January 2021.