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Commodity Price Basket Reaches Lowest Level Of 2019, Thomas McCartin, Senior Economist, IHS Markit

Date 30/10/2019

Commodity prices continued to soften last week with the IHS Markit Materials Price Index (MPI) falling 0.7%. Seven of the index’s ten components declined, bringing the MPI to its lowest level of the year.

EEX Final Settlement Price Dairy Futures October 2019

Date 30/10/2019

Please find below the Final Settlement Price of Dairy Futures October 2019.

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EBA Publishes Opinion Proposing To Further Strengthen Depositor Protection In The EU

Date 30/10/2019

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its second opinion addressed to the EU Commission on the implementation of the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD) in the EU. The Opinion focuses on the payouts by deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs) and proposes a number of changes to the EU legal framework, aimed at strengthening depositor protection, improving depositor information, enhancing financial stability and reinforcing operational effectiveness of DGSs.

Eurex Expands Strategic Relationship With MSCI - MSCI Index-Linked ESG Derivatives And Total Return Futures To Be Included

Date 30/10/2019

Eurex and MSCI have signed an agreement on the long-term extension of their strategic relationship. In addition to the long-term extension of the license agreement on futures and options, MSCI will license new indexes to Eurex for listed ESG equity index derivatives and Total Return Futures (TRF).

ESMA: MiFID II - New Publication Date For Systematic Internaliser And Bond Data

Date 30/10/2019

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will publish the systematic internaliser (SI) and bond market liquidity data on 8 November, this follows the latest developments around the departure of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).

ESMA Update On Brexit Preparations

Date 30/10/2019

ACER Publishes A New Edition Of The REMIT Quarterly

Date 30/10/2019

The 18th edition of the Agency’s REMIT Quarterly has been published on the REMIT Portal. Covering the third quarter of 2019, this edition reports about the sanctions of two market participants for illegally marking the close on the gas markets by the Spanish NRA that happened in January 2017, as well as first sanctions imposed under REMIT in the German gas market, taking place in October 2016. Both sanctioned behaviours amount to a breach of Article 5 of REMIT. 

UK Financial Conduct Authority: UK’s Exit From The EU Delayed

Date 30/10/2019

The EU and the UK have agreed to extend the date for the UK’s departure from the EU. As a result, firms do not need to take action to implement Brexit contingency plans for 31 October.

tZERO Partners With Alliance Investments To Tokenize River Plaza, A Luxury Real Estate Development In Manchester, UK

Date 30/10/2019

tZERO, the global leader in blockchain innovation for capital markets, announced today that it has partnered with Alliance Investments, a UK-based direct-to-developer real estate investment company, to provide technology services to tokenize Alliance Investments’ River Plaza, a 180-unit luxury residential development that is located in Manchester, UK. River Plaza is the UK’s first real estate-backed security token offering (STO) and the first project of Alliance Investments’ real estate tokenization plan to tokenize approximately $640 million of real estate projects across the UK over the next several years.

smartTrade Technologies Strengthens Its Presence in EMEA By Opening A Subsidiary In Geneva And Growing Its Sales Team

Date 30/10/2019

smartTrade Technologies, a global leader in multi-asset electronic trading solutions, opens a new subsidiary in Geneva and appoints two senior sales directors, Peter Holmgren in London and Claude Doricic in Paris.