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CME Group Announces Launch Of New TreasuryWatch Tool for Comprehensive Analysis Of U.S. Treasury Markets

Date 06/10/2020

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of its new CME TreasuryWatch Tool. With U.S. debt at the highest level since World War II, and expected to exceed the size of the U.S. economy in 2021, this new tool will provide market participants with a comprehensive look at the data shaping cash and futures markets for U.S. Treasuries today.

Broadridge’s AI-driven Corporate Bond Trading Platform LTX® Selects 7 Chord As Third-Party Pricing Provider - Platform Offers Greater Insights Into Pre-Trade Liquidity

Date 06/10/2020

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.  (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced that it selected 7 Chord, an independent predictive pricing and analytics provider, as the source for intraday corporate bond prices on its new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, digital corporate bond trading platform, LTX®.  Advanced analytics sit at the core of LTX, and the integration with BondDroid®, 7 Chord’s award-winning predictive pricing engine for bonds, provides buy-side firms and dealers with an independent assessment of current market value to inform critical investment decisions.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Bans The Sale Of Crypto-Derivatives To Retail Consumers

Date 06/10/2020

Solactive Releases New Index Family Tracking Only Companies With The Highest Cybersecurity Ratings From BitSight

Date 06/10/2020

The topic of ESG has solidified itself as a household name in the financial industry. With a massive tilt towards social and environmental concerns, the market lacks dedicated G-benchmarks that, for example, take into account a company’s exposure to certain contemporary risks. With Solactive’s new Solactive BitSight Cyber Risk Indices, the German index provider reinterpreted the Governance factor by including in one index family only those companies that exhibit comparably good cyber risk management systems and strategies. Backtests reveal a sizable outperformance of the Solactive BitSight Cyber Risk Indices compared to its benchmarks, potentially adding some G-Force into investors’ portfolios.

LCH SA Connects To Cboe Europe For Equities Clearing

Date 06/10/2020

Qatar Stock Exchange Rings The Bell For Financial Literacy

Date 06/10/2020

Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) today hosted a bell ringing ceremony as part of its participation in the World Investor Week initiated by IOSCO and the World Federation of Exchanges.

ACER Consults On Barriers To Efficient Price Formation And Easy Entry And Participation In European Electricity Markets

Date 06/10/2020

In September 2020, in the framework of the Clean Energy Package, ACER initiated a study on the efficient price formation, easy market entry and participation for new players and small actors in the European electricity markets. The analysis aims at supporting European and national policy makers to better identify and remove market barriers, as well as monitoring the progress of the EU energy markets’ design.

Reply To Singapore Parliamentary Question On Individual And SME Borrowers' Credit Ratings During COVID-19

Date 06/10/2020

Question:

To ask the Prime Minister whether MAS can provide guidance to (i) financial institutions not to let their individual and SME borrowers' dismal financial performance in 2020 affect their credit scoring and (ii) credit bureaus to rescind the adverse record of an individual borrower whose repayment ability has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of MAS:

1.      The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted incomes of many individual and business borrowers. The priority is to help them not to miss payments. That is why MAS has been working closely with the financial industry to implement relief measures since March 2020, to help borrowers defer and spread out their monthly repayments. Borrowers who take up the relief measures are able to avoid missing payments, and hence avoid hurting their credit standing.

Vorboss Scales Its London Fibre Network With Interxion UK

Date 06/10/2020

Vorboss, one of London's leading connectivity providers, has significantly expanded its presence at Interxion UK to support growing fibre network demands for UK and International Enterprises.

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Welcomes Re-Appointment Of Non-Executive Directors

Date 06/10/2020

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) welcomes the re-appointment by the Financial Secretary of Ms Agnes Chan and Mr Edward Cheng as Non-Executive Directors for a term of two years with effect from 20 October 2020 and 1 January 2021, respectively.