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  • BIS Innovation Hub And SWIFT Announce Winners Of ISO 20022 And API Hackathon

    Date 25/03/2021

    The BIS Innovation Hub is supporting the CPMI and FSB roadmap to improve cross-border payments. In March 2021 we partnered with SWIFT to run a week-long hackathon focussed on using ISO 20022 messaging and modern APIs to build better cross-border payment processes.

  • UK Financial Conduct Authority: High Court Finds That 24HR Trading Academy Unlawfully Advised On Investments And Unlawfully Promoted CFD Trading

    Date 25/03/2021

    The High Court has delivered a summary judgement in proceedings commenced by the FCA ruling that 24HR Trading Academy Limited (24HR Trading), run by Mohammed Fuaath Haja Maideen Maricar, contravened the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) by providing unauthorised investment advice to consumers via WhatsApp messages.

  • Climate Considerations Now Fully Embedded Across UK Principal Financial Regulators

    Date 25/03/2021

    The UK has extended its global leadership on green finance by requiring its principal financial regulators to consider climate change yesterday (24 March 2021).

  • BIS - Liquidity To Solvency: Transition Cancelled Or Postponed?

    Date 25/03/2021

    Key takeaways

    • Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a "bankruptcy gap" has emerged between measures of expected and realised bankruptcies globally.
    • The ample supply of credit to make up for short-term losses has been an important factor decoupling bankruptcies from the sharp reduction in firms' cash flows.
    • Firms' reliance on credit suggests that it may be too early to dismiss future solvency risk. Significant increases in leverage and weak earnings forecasts in some sectors suggest that for some firms, greater credit extension may have only postponed, rather than cancelled, their insolvency.

  • EEX Awarded Contract As Sales Platform For Fuel Emissions Trading In Germany

    Date 25/03/2021

    European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) was awarded the contract for the sale of fuel emission allowances in the national Emissions Trading Scheme (nETS) by the German Federal Environment Agency. Fuel emissions trading has been in force in Germany since 1st January 2021. The instrument will set a CO2 price for the heat and transport sectors at a national level for the first time, as previously this has not been covered by the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).