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  • Bank Of England: Bank Rate Maintained At 0.1% - February 2021 - Monetary Policy Summary And Minutes Of The Monetary Policy Committee Meeting

    Date 04/02/2021

    The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending on 3 February 2021, the Committee judged that the existing stance of monetary policy remains appropriate. The MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.1%. The Committee voted unanimously for the Bank of England to maintain the stock of sterling non-financial investment-grade corporate bond purchases, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves, at £20 billion. The Committee voted unanimously for the Bank of England to continue with its existing programme of UK government bond purchases, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves, maintaining the target for the stock of these government bond purchases at £875 billion and so the total target stock of asset purchases at £895 billion.

  • General Counsel Michael Lappe Leaves Deutsche Börse AG - Bettina Kramer-Braun To Be His Successor

    Date 04/02/2021

    Michael Lappe (63), General Counsel of Deutsche Börse AG since 1 March 2018, will leave the company as at 30 June at his own request and by best mutual agreement. He will, however, continue to advise Deutsche Börse as an independent consultant. Bettina Kramer-Braun (47), lawyer and solicitor, will be his successor. 

  • ECB Extends Bilateral Euro Liquidity Lines With Non-Euro Area Central Banks

    Date 04/02/2021

    • ECB decided to extend temporary euro liquidity lines by nine months to March 2022
    • Objective of these euro liquidity lines is to address possible euro liquidity needs in non-euro area countries in presence of market dysfunctions due to COVID-19

  • Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security QCOM-RM

    Date 04/02/2021

    As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 04.02.2021, 13-57 (MSK) the lower bound of the price band (up to 10897) and initial margins (up to 18.75 %) for the security QCOM-RM were changed. New values are available here

  • UK Centre For Policy Studies: Carbon Taxes Would Be A Powerful Tool In The Fight Against Climate Change

    Date 04/02/2021

    Responding to the Prime Minister's reported plans to introduce carbon taxes, Eamonn Ives, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies, said: 

    "It's encouraging to see the Government express its interest in carbon taxes - which have been proven to be powerful tools in the fight against climate change, but are woefully underutilised. Ideally, any carbon tax would be applied uniformly across the economy to avoid creating economic distortions, and to capture as many sources of emissions as possible, including from imported carbon intensive goods and energy - as previously called for by the CPS.