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Xignite Partners With SIX To Accelerate The Transition Of Real-Time Market Data To The Cloud - The Two Companies Deliver Industry’s Largest Global Coverage Sourced From 1,800+ Trading Venues Via Hyper-Scalable Cloud APIs

Date 23/07/2020

Xignite, Inc., a provider of market data distribution and management solutions for financial services and technology companies, and SIX today announced a strategic partnership. Xignite and SIX are now offering real-time data from the catalog of SIX which includes 1,800+ global exchanges and trading venues via Xignite Enterprise Microservices, a suite of cloud-native market data management services built to transform how firms store, distribute, manage, and control market data in the cloud. The partnership accelerates the transition of large financial institutions and fintechs to the cloud. This is the first time such a comprehensive set of market data has been offered to the market via a native cloud solution. 

Flowe Chooses SIA To Develop Digital Banking Services

Date 23/07/2020

• The partnership between the two companies makes it possible to offer innovative smartphone payment services through Flowe cards
• SIA's technology infrastructure, in addition to the entire customer journey of the Flowe card, also enables purchases on e-commerce sites and other fully-digital payment services
• The card is also available in a wood version and represents an absolute innovation as it adopts environmentally sustainable materials while guaranteeing complete functionality of traditional and contactless payment services

Protecting Economic Muscle: Finance And The Covid Crisis - Speech By Alex Brazier, Executive Director For Financial Stability Strategy And Risk, Bank Of England, Member Of The Financial Policy Committee, Given As Part Of The CFO Virtual Agenda

Date 23/07/2020

Alex Brazier discusses the UK’s corporate sector financing needs as it faces up to Covid-19, analysing how their cash flows could evolve in the coming months and how they could finance their cash-flow deficit.

ESMA Publishes The MiFID/MiFIR Annual Review Report

Date 23/07/2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published today the MiFID/MiFIR Annual Review Report under Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/583 (RTS 2). This report lays down the thresholds for the liquidity criterion 'average daily number of trades' for bonds, as well as the trade percentiles.

From Lockdown To Recovery - The Economic Effects Of COVID-19 - Speech By Jonathan Haskel, External Member Of The Bank Of England Monetary Policy Committee, Given As Part Of The Imperial Future Matters Online Webinar, Hosted By Imperial College Business School

Date 23/07/2020

In this speech Jonathan Haskel talks through some of the initial modelling of the economic impact of COVID-19. He goes on to discuss how recent developments in economic modelling can help us to think about how the dual fears of infection and unemployment might shape the recovery.

BME: MAB-Listed Companies Were 51% More Profitable In 2019 And Increased Their Average Staff By13%

Date 23/07/2020

• Their combined turnover increased two-fold in the last five years
• This year the deadline for submitting the accounts has been extended until June 30th due to the Covid crisis

Cassini Systems And IHS Markit Partner To Provide Automated Margin Estimates Within thinkFolio

Date 23/07/2020

Cassini Systems<https://cassinisystems.com/>, the leading provider of pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives markets, and business information provider IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) announced today that they are partnering to automate the calculation of margin estimates within thinkFolio<https://ihsmarkit.com/products/thinkFolio.html>.  The collaboration will, for the first time, provide advanced pre-trade analytics for over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded derivatives directly within thinkFolio from IHS Markit, the leading multi-asset class investment management platform.

Securities Commission Malaysia Revokes Financial Planning Licence Of Etalage Sdn Bhd

Date 23/07/2020

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has revoked Etalage Sdn Bhd’s (Etalage) Capital Market Services Licence on 25 June 2020, in accordance to Section72(2)(a)(ii) of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007, as the company has failed or ceased to carry out its licensed activities for a consecutive period of three months.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Wholesale Distribution Steering Group - June 2020

Date 23/07/2020

The Wholesale Distribution Steering Group have the objective of overseeing the design of a new end-state model for wholesale cash distribution. This is to support the UK in an environment of declining cash volumes.

Press Statement By Michel Barnier Following Round 6 Of The Negotiations For A New Partnership Between The European Union And The United Kingdom

Date 23/07/2020

Ladies and gentlemen,

Good afternoon to all of you.

I am happy to meet you here in Europe House in London, at the end of this sixth negotiation round.