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Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Market Report For January 29th 2021

Date 29/01/2021

A total turnover of 2.570 billion shares worth N27.884 billion in 31,466 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange, in contrast to a total of 4.288 billion shares valued at N25.989 billion that exchanged hands last week in 32,849 deals.

NSE Indices Index Dashboard For The Month Ended January 2021

Date 29/01/2021

Click here to download the ' Index Dashboard' for the month ended January 2021.  

ESMA Consults On Changes To CRA Supervisory Fees

Date 29/01/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, today launches a public consultation on the revision of the Delegated Regulation regarding fees charged to CRAs.

Bank Of England: Lessons From The Pandemic: Has The Simpler Post-2008 Financial System Held Up? And Where Do We Go From Here? - Speech By Christina Segal-Knowles - Given At The Official Monetary And Financial Institutions Forum

Date 29/01/2021

Christina Segal-Knowles reflects on the post-2008 financial crisis reforms to the derivatives market. She looks at how they held up during the market turbulence of spring 2020. 

Chainalysis And Flashpoint Partner To Provide Advanced Intelligence Into Cybercriminal Use Of Cryptocurrencies, Unlocking New Visibility About Cyberattacks

Date 29/01/2021

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, and Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence, today announced a partnership to integrate their analytics networks, enabling their customers to investigate threat actor activity and attacks via suspicious cryptocurrency transactions. Data interoperability between the platforms, combined with visualization tools, will provide public and private sector customers enhanced context and intelligence to trace the originators of attacks, and determine when and where the attacks first originated.

Nasdaq Named To 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

Date 29/01/2021

Nasdaq, Inc. today announced its inclusion in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the first time. The GEI brings transparency to gender-related practices and policies at publicly listed companies increasing the breadth of environmental, social, governance (ESG) data available to investors.

ESAs Consult To Amend Technical Standards On The Mapping Of ECAIs’ Credit Assessments

Date 29/01/2021

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) launched today a public consultation to amend the Implementing Regulations on the mapping of credit assessments of External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs) for credit risk. The amendments are needed to assign mappings for two newly established ECAIs and to reflect the outcomes of a monitoring exercise on the adequacy of existing mappings, namely changes to the Credit Quality Steps (CQS) allocation for two ECAIs and the introduction of new credit rating scales for nine ECAIs. The Implementing Regulations are part of the EU Single Rulebook for banking and insurance aimed at creating a safe and sound regulatory framework consistently applicable across the European Union (EU). The consultation runs until 5 March 2021.

ESMA Consults On Appropriateness And Execution-Only Under MiFID II

Date 29/01/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities regulator, today launches a consultation on guidelines on the application of certain aspects of the appropriateness and execution-only requirements under MiFID II.

MNI Chicago Business Barometer™ – Jumped To 63.8 In January

Date 29/01/2021

Key Points – January Report

The Chicago Business Barometer^TM, produced with MNI, rose 5.1 points to 63.8 in January. The index now stands at the highest level since July 2018, boosted by a pick-up in activity at the beginning of 2021.

Bittrex Global To Launch All Stocks Delisted From Robinhood - GameStop (GME), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Nokia (NOK) Already Live For Trading 24/7

Date 29/01/2021

Bittrex Global (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that it has listed  tokenized stocks for GameStop and AMC Entertainment as well as Nokia, BlackBerry, and iShares Silver Trust. Bittrex Global will continue to list additional stocks as other firms announce a delisting from their platforms.