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Morgan Stanley Top M&A Financial Adviser In Asia-Pacific For 2020, Finds GlobalData

Date 19/01/2021

Morgan Stanley emerged as the top financial adviser for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by both value and volume in Asia-Pacific for 2020, having advised on 57 deals worth US$142.6bn. A total 7,621 M&A deals were announced in the region during 2020, marking a 15.6% increase over the 6,594 deals announced in 2019, reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Temenos Enterprise Pricing Offers Banks Core-Agnostic, SaaS Solution For Rapid Launch Of Personalized Products And Services

Date 19/01/2021

• Temenos’ solution enables larger banks with complex, legacy systems to launch innovative and highly competitive multi-product pricing offerings – across Temenos’ and third-party core banking platforms – to gain earlier time to value  as they start their modernization program
• Temenos’ powerful, enterprise-wide product management and dynamic pricing helps larger banks innovate with personalized services and product bundles, including third-party products
• Microservices-based, Temenos Enterprise Pricing helps banks create new revenue streams through consistent fee structures and transparent pricing
• Temenos maximizes banks’ profitability​ with compelling offerings that increase client retention and boost wallet share

Worldline Partners With Gold Global SA To Launch The "Davinci Gold" Token - The Physical Gold Purchasing Solution Is Based On Worldline’s New Stablecoins Infrastructure

Date 19/01/2021

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transactional services, has announced a strategic co-operation with Gold Global Currency Corp. SA (“Gold Global”), to offer the DaVinci Gold token based on Worldline’s stablecoins management infrastructure. This initiative further expands the capability of Worldline’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform and will assist towards fulfilling the company’s goals to be in the forefront of stablecoins and Blockchain technology.

BMLL Delivers Data And Analytics Capabilities To Global Banks On Kx - Data Distribution Agreement Will Make BMLL Data Feed And Scalable Analytics Available To Sell-Side Participants On The Kx Platform

Date 19/01/2021

BMLL, the award-winning data and analytics company, today announced that BMLL Data Feed will be available to sell side participants on the Kx Streaming Analytics platform. Kx is a leading provider of streaming data analytics, serving the majority of the world’s Tier 1 global banks.

Nasdaq Announces Semi-Annual Changes To The OMX Helsinki 25 Index

Date 19/01/2021

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today the results of the semi-annual review of the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, (Nasdaq Helsinki: OMXH25), which will become effective at market open on Monday, February 1, 2021.

CoinShares Launches Its First Bitcoin ETP At SIX

Date 19/01/2021

Today, the Swiss Stock Exchange welcomes another new ETP issuer. CoinShares is already the second product issuer joining in 2021. CoinShares’ physical bitcoin ETP further enlarges the choice of products with a crypto-currency as underlying at SIX.

Big-Ticket Deals Take Back Seat As Caution Grips APAC VC Funding Landscape During Q4 2020, Finds GlobalData

Date 19/01/2021

Low value deals (investment <=US$10m) accounted for the majority of the venture capital (VC) investment volume in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region while billion-dollar deals remained mostly non-existent during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

ESAs Publish Final Draft Its On Reporting Templates For Intra-Group Transactions And Risk Concentration Under FICOD

Date 18/01/2021

The European Supervisory Authorities - ESAs (the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) submitted today to the European Commission the final Report on the draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) under the Financial Conglomerates Directive (FICOD) on reporting templates for intra-group transactions (IGT) and risk concentration (RC). The draft ITS aim at further increasing comparability amongst conglomerates of different EU Member States thereby improving supervisory consistency.

CME Group Completes Migration Of BrokerTec EU Government Bond And EU Repo Trading Platform To CME Globex

Date 18/01/2021

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that BrokerTec, a leading provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, has successfully migrated its European government bonds and repo trading platform to CME Globex.

EACH Publishes Its New Paper "Carrots And Sticks: How The Skin In The Game Incentivises CCPs To Perform Robust Risk Management"

Date 18/01/2021

The European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) published today an EACH paper entitled "Carrots and sticks: How the skin in the game incentivises CCPs to perform robust risk management". This document is part of series of papers produced in the context of the Online Workshop on CCP Risk Management that EACH organised jointly with the Journal for Financial Market Infrastructures (JFMI) on Tuesday 13th October 2020.