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BIS: What 31 Provinces Reveal About Growth In China

Date 28/01/2021

Summary

Focus

Chinese growth has been the main engine of the global economy for the past two decades. However, after the government announced in 2012 that it aimed to double real GDP by 2020, the country's aggregate growth statistics have been disappointingly flat and econometric analyses have been increasingly difficult to conduct. In this paper, instead of using aggregate growth statistics, we exploit a Chinese macroeconomic data set at the provincial level for 1999–2019 and take advantage of its larger statistical variation.

How Are Investors’ Trading Activities, Data Needs And Digital Expectations Evolving? Refinitiv

Date 28/01/2021

How are investors’ trading activities, data needs and digital expectations evolving? 

BME: MARF Registers A 50 Million Euro Commercial Paper Programme From GAM

Date 28/01/2021

BME’s Fixed Income Market, MARF, has registered a new Commercial Paper (CP) Programme from General de Alquiler de Maquinaria (GAM) for a maximum outstanding balance of 50 million euros. With this debut on the MARF, GAM will be able to place CPs over the next 12 months among qualified investors and professional clients with maturities of up to two years.

ESMA Updates Its Q&As Relating To The Prospectus Regulation

Date 28/01/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities and markets regulator, has today updated its Questions and Answers (Q&As) on the Prospectus Regulation with six new Q&As.  

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 28/01/2021

The following risk parameters will be changed:

IR risk (downward scenario) - SECΔ_1 (Y0/Y1)

Bank Of England: Update On The Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) – Market Notice 9 October 2020

Date 28/01/2021

This Market Notice provides an update on how CCFF issuers’ credit quality will be monitored and reviewed in advance of the closure of the CCFF. It supplements, and should be read in conjunction with, the consolidated Market Notice dated 9 October 2020 and the Market Notice confirming the closure of the CCFF dated 22 September 2020.

Why Does The FCA Care About Diversity And Inclusion? Speech By Georgina Philippou, Senior Adviser To The FCA On The Public Sector Equality Duty, Given At The Ethnic Diversity In The City And Corporate UK Summit

Date 28/01/2021

Highlights

• Financial services generally are not diverse and that is not a good thing for anyone. But it is also important to remember that diversity is one thing and inclusion is another; without an inclusive culture, the value of diversity, when achieved, will not be realised.
• As the FCA, we want to see a healthy financial services industry; we want to mainstream diversity and inclusion into all of our regulatory processes.
• The responsibility for creating and maintaining more ethnically diverse and inclusive cultures in the financial service industry sits with us all.

MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index Licensed To Ninepoint Partners LP

Date 28/01/2021

Today, MV Index Solutions GmbH (MVIS®) in partnership with CryptoCompare, the global leader in digital asset data, announced the licensing of the MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index (MVIBTC) to Ninepoint Partners LP (Ninepoint Partners) for the use in a fund. The fund’s investment objectives are to seek to provide its unitholders with exposure to the digital currency Bitcoin through an institutional-quality, cost-efficient platform, and to provide a secure, simpler and exchange-traded investment alternative for buying and holding Bitcoin.

LSEG All Share Acquisition Of Refinitiv: Update

Date 28/01/2021

Further to the announcement on 19 January 2021, London Stock Exchange Group plc (“LSEG” or the “Company”) confirms that, subject to completion of its all-share acquisition of Refinitiv (the “Transaction”) occurring on 29 January as expected, 179,610,123 consideration shares comprising: (i) 112,254,597 voting ordinary shares with a nominal value of 6⁷⁹/₈₆ pence each; and (ii) 67,355,526 limited-voting ordinary shares with a nominal value of 6⁷⁹/₈₆ pence each (which limited-voting ordinary shares will not be admitted to listing or trading), will be issued to the Refinitiv Sellers to satisfy the consideration due under the terms of the Transaction.  LSEG also confirms, as described in the prospectus published on 9 December 2020 (the “Prospectus”), that admission of the entire enlarged voting ordinary share capital of LSEG (including the 112,254,597 voting ordinary shares issued to the Refinitiv Sellers), consisting of a total of 463,841,689 voting ordinary shares, to the premium segment of the Official List and to trading on London Stock Exchange’s Main Market is also expected to take place at 8:00am on 29 January 2021 (“Admission”).

Risk Parameters Change For The Securities ABT-RM And AAL-RM

Date 28/01/2021

Please follow the links below to access the information:

Risk parameters change for the security ABT-RM
Risk parameters change for the security AAL-RM