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FSB Encourages The IFRS Foundation And Authorities To Use TCFD’s Recommendations As The Basis For Climate-Related Financial Risk Disclosures

Date 22/12/2020

Globally consistent and comparable disclosures by companies of their climate-related financial risks are increasingly important to market participants and financial authorities as a means to give financial markets the information they need to manage risks, and seize opportunities, stemming from climate change.

BIS: The Globalisation Of Inflation In The European Emerging Countries

Date 22/12/2020

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The paper aims to assess the level of integration of the European emerging countries in the global economy by analysing inflation dynamics across the region. Starting in 2014, the inflation rate in the European emerging countries declined consistently, in line with global developments, even if strong economic growth and tight labour markets in the region would have been expected to fuel local inflationary pressures.

ACER Adopted A Decision On Products That Can Be Used In The Day-Ahead Coupling

Date 22/12/2020

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) adopted a Decision on the terms and conditions for day-ahead products that can be used in the day-ahead coupling.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change On Securities Market

Date 22/12/2020

CCP NCC is changing the following risk parameters on Securities market starting from December 23, 2020.

Federal Reserve Board Issues Enforcement Action With Credit Suisse

Date 22/12/2020

The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below:

Credit Suisse Group AG, Zurich, Switzerland; Credit Suisse AG, Zurich, Switzerland; Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Inc., New York, New York; and Credit Suisse AG, New York Branch, New York, New York

Finansinspektionen : New Procedures To Enhance Transparency

Date 22/12/2020

As of 1 January 2021, FI will implement new procedures for how it announces opened and closed supervision investigations.

ACER Decides On Common Rules For Cross-Border Participation In Electricity Capacity Mechanisms

Date 22/12/2020

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has adopted a Decision on the common rules for cross-border participation in capacity mechanisms.These rules enable electricity providers to contribute directly to resource adequacy in other EU Member States, thus improving security of electricity supply while decreasing costs for consumers.

Bitfinex Derivatives To Launch Ethereum/bitcoin (ETHF0:BTCF0) Perpetual Contract, Perpetual Swap

Date 22/12/2020

Bitfinex Derivatives* offers a derivatives platform accessible through Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform. Bitfinex Derivatives has today announced the launch of a perpetual contract for Ethereum/bitcoin (ETHF0:BTCF0).

SEC Issues Substituted Compliance Order For Germany And Notice Of Substituted Compliance Application And Proposed Substituted Compliance Order For France

Date 22/12/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to take two actions to advance implementation of security-based swap regulation under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  First, the Commission is publishing a final substituted compliance order in response to an application by Germany’s Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin).  In addition, the Commission is publishing a notice of application and proposed substituted compliance order in response to an application by France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and Autorité de Contrôle Prudential et de Résolution (ACPR).       

CFTC Staff Releases Position Limits Workbook To Provide Clarity To Market Participants

Date 22/12/2020

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO) today released a staff workbook to provide guidance to market participants on which exchange-traded futures contracts would be subject to the position limits rule the Commission approved in October. [See CFTC Press Release No. 8287-20]