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Kooltra Appoints James Green As Chief Executive Officer

Date 21/01/2020

Kooltra, a provider of cloud-based, integrated middle and back office technology for foreign exchange markets, has appointed James “Jay” Green as Chief Executive Officer. Green succeeds founder Adam Katz, who will become Chief Product Officer and lead Kooltra’s product strategy, engineering and product development teams.

QuantConnect Announces Designer Algorithm Development Competition Winners - The Alpha Five Competition Drew Impressive Quant Participation, With 245 Strategies Submitted By 102 Competitors

Date 21/01/2020

QuantConnect today announced the winners of its innovative Alpha Five competition, which started in October 2019. The competition was the first-of-its-kind, enabling a sponsoring hedge fund to solicit “designer” alphas from the crowd. QuantConnect, an open-source algorithmic trading platform, provides its community of almost 100,000 quants access to financial data, cloud computing, and a coding environment where they can design, build, and live trade algorithmic trading strategies.

U.S. Exchange Information Services Revenues Increase 7.2% In 2019: Investment Analytics And Index Segments Drive Growth - Burton-Taylor Report

Date 21/01/2020

• U.S. Exchange Information Services revenues reach a record $3.7 billion in 2019
• Surging revenues in Investment Analytics and Index segments drive growth
• Market Data revenues rise 6.7% on strength in fixed income and options segments

BIS: The Green Swan - Central Banking And Financial Stability In The Age Of Climate Change

Date 21/01/2020

Climate change poses new challenges to central banks, regulators and supervisors. This book reviews ways of addressing these new risks within central banks' financial stability mandate.

SGX Included In 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

Date 21/01/2020

• Recognised for its high level of gender-related disclosure and efforts to advance gender equality
• 27% of SGX’s Board is represented by female directors, highest in the financial sector among the top 100 Singapore-listed companies

BIS: Central Bank Group To Assess Potential Cases For Central Bank Digital Currencies

Date 21/01/2020

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank, together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have created a group to share experiences as they assess the potential cases for central bank digital currency (CBDC) in their home jurisdictions. 

QSE Announces The Kick-Off Of Qatar Stock Exchange Financial Education Competition – 2nd Edition

Date 21/01/2020

Qatar Stock Exchange announces the closing of registration for its second annual Financial Education Competition for Universities, whose final ceremony will be held and its prizes will be presented on March 17, 2020.QSE is happy and proud to announce the participation of eight students’ teams from seven universities/colleges arranged according to registration dates as follows:

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Issues Restriction Notice To A Broker To Freeze Client Accounts Linked To Suspected Market Manipulation

Date 21/01/2020

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a restriction notice to China Fund Securities Limited (CFSL), prohibiting it from dealing with or processing $170 million worth of assets held in six client accounts, which are related to suspected market manipulation in the shares of Hon Corporation Limited between November 2019 and early December 2019.

Central Bank Group To Assess Potential Cases For Central Bank Digital Currencies

Date 21/01/2020

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank, together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have created a group to share experiences as they assess the potential cases for central bank digital currency (CBDC) in their home jurisdictions.

Businesses Urged To Prepare Now For $4 Trillion Global Carbon Tax Bill To Tackle Climate Crisis

Date 21/01/2020

• Global economy faces $4 trillion tax gap if carbon taxes raised in line with IMF proposals to tackle climate crisis
• Up to 13% of revenues to be hit for companies with greatest exposure
• Refinitiv analysis of 3,000 publicly listed entities