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Tether Tokens (USDt) Market Cap Crosses US$60 Billion In Flight To Safety Amid Extreme Market Volatility

Date 24/05/2021

Tether Operations Limited (Tether), the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has surpassed US$60 billion in market capitalization as market participants flooded to the pre-eminent stablecoin in the face of recent market turbulence.

YIELD App Announces Ground-Breaking New DeFi Insurance Product, Steady State

Date 24/05/2021

Leading decentralized finance (DeFi) wealth management platform YIELD App is pleased to announce it is partnering with its new partner project, cutting-edge new DeFi insurance protocol Steady State, which plans to completely transform the cryptocurrency protection landscape. 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 24/05/2021

Arteche Receives Favourable Report From BME Growth

Date 24/05/2021

The Coordination and Admissions Committee of BME Growth has submitted to the Board of Directors a favourable report on ARTECHE following a thorough review of all the information presented by the company.

Faryar Shirzad Joins Coinbase As Chief Policy Officer - Former Goldman Sachs Global Co-Head Of Government Affairs And Former White House Deputy National Security Advisor, To Join Coinbase As Chief Policy Officer

Date 24/05/2021

Coinbase has never shied away from regulation. In fact, we’ve leaned into it over the past 9 years, allowing us to become a trusted platform bringing consumers and institutions alike into the cryptoeconomy. As a part of this commitment, we’re thrilled to welcome Faryar Shirzad as Coinbase’s new Chief Policy Officer. Faryar’s impressive experience — most recently as Global Co-Head of the Office of Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs — will be invaluable as we navigate the evolving global regulatory environment and work with governments around the world on critical issues surrounding the cryptoeconomy.

Joint Statement On U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group Meeting

Date 24/05/2021

U.S. and UK participants held the fourth meeting of the U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group (Working Group) virtually on May 20, 2021.  The Working Group was formed in 2018 to deepen bilateral regulatory cooperation with a view to the further promotion of financial stability; investor protection; fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and capital formation in both jurisdictions.  As two global financial centers, cooperation between the United States and the UK continues to be important, particularly during the global recovery from COVID-19.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Post-Trade Task Force Meeting – April 2021

Date 24/05/2021

The Bank of England is an observer on the Post-Trade Task Force, an industry working group that aims to catalyse reform in post-trade.

LCH Appoints James Pearson As Head Of ForexClear

Date 24/05/2021

• Responsible for LCH’s FX derivatives clearing service
• James to oversee continued growth at ForexClear

CJC mosaicOA Now Available Via The BT Radianz Cloud - For The First Time, Global Financial Institutions Can Access A Big Data-Powered IT Visualisation And Analytics Tool Via High-Performance Radianz Connections

Date 24/05/2021

CJC, a market data technology consulting and services firm with over twenty years’ experience in designing, building and operating market data systems, today announced that mosaicOA has become the first IT visualisation and analytics tool available to financial institutions via the BT Radianz Cloud, one of the world’s largest secure cloud communities for the global capital markets.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters For New Futures On Derivatives Market

Date 24/05/2021

CCP NCC sets the following risk parameters for new SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPYF) futures on Derivatives market starting from May 25, 2021: