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HKEX: Exchange Publishes Conclusions On Paperless Listing & Subscription Regime, Online Display Of Documents And Reduction Of The Types Of Documents On Display

Date 18/12/2020

• The Exchange will implement all its proposals with minor modifications
•  All IPOs must be paperless from 5 July 2021
• Documents put on display to support listings and transactions, must be made available online from 4 October 2021

Moscow Exchange: The Ticker Of The iNAV "Open All-Weather" To Be Changed

Date 18/12/2020

The ticker for the iNAV "Open All-Weather" will be changed from ONLYO to OPNWO, starting December 23, 2020.

Japan Financial Services Agency: Publication Of The "Board Effectiveness And Ensuring Diversity In The Core Human Resources In Companies For Post-Covid Transformation Of Companies"

Date 18/12/2020

The Council of Experts Concerning the Follow-up of Japan’s Stewardship Code and Japan’s Corporate Governance Code (Chairman: Hideki Kanda, Professor, Gakushuin University Law School) has now published the opinion statement No.5 “Board Effectiveness and Ensuring Diversity in the Core Human Resources in Companies for Post-COVID Transformation of Companies”.

TriOptima Completes First Benchmark Conversion Risk Replacement Trades At Japan Securities Clearing Corporation

Date 18/12/2020

TriOptima, a leading infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, has announced the completion of the first triReduce enhanced compression Japanese yen cycle, which includes Tokyo Overnight Alternative Rate (TONA) risk replacement trades. The cycle took place on December 4, 2020 at the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC).

Bitfinex Adds Tether Tokens (USDt), Euro Trading Pair

Date 18/12/2020

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has added Tether tokens both USDt and EURt to the suite of tokens available for trading.

ACER’s “70% Target Report” Finds That Member States Have Much More To Do To Reach The EU’s Minimum 70% Interconnector Capacity Margin Available For Cross-Zonal Electricity Trading

Date 18/12/2020

Europe’s Clean Energy Package (CEP) has set a binding minimum 70% target for electricity interconnector capacity for cross-zonal trading (the “minimum 70% target”).

Bitfinex Borrow Launches Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) Personal Loans

Date 18/12/2020

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has launched bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) personal loans on Bitfinex Borrow, a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital token loan portal.

CFFEX: Notice On Delivery Of Equity Index Futures And Options Contracts

Date 18/12/2020

It is hereby announced that:

• The following equity index futures and options contracts are delivered on December 18, 2020 at their respective final settlement prices:
• IF2012 CSI 300 index futures contracts and the IO2012 series CSI 300 index options contracts are delivered at the final settlement price of 4996.89;
• IC2012 CSI 500 index futures contracts are delivered at the final settlement price of 6294.83;
• IH2012 SSE 50 index futures contracts are delivered at the final settlement price of 3505.22.

Golden Falcon Acquisition Corp. Announces Pricing Of Upsized $300 Million Initial Public Offering

Date 18/12/2020

Golden Falcon Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) announced today that it priced its initial public offering of 30,000,000 units, upsized from 25,000,000 units, at $10.00 per unit. The units will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and will begin trading tomorrow, Friday, December 18, 2020 under the ticker symbol “GFX.U”. Each unit consists of one share of the Company’s Class A common stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant, each whole warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share. Once the securities comprising the units begin separate trading, shares of the Class A common stock and warrants are expected to be listed on the NYSE under the symbols “GFX” and “GFX WS” respectively.  The offering is expected to close on December 22, 2020.

Tether Tokens (USDt) Tower Above UD20 Billion Market Cap

Date 18/12/2020

Tether.to, the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has surpassed US$20 billion, underlying the increasing dominance of the most popular, liquid and innovative stablecoin.