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Qontigo Appoints Stephan Flägel As Global Head Of Indices & Benchmarks To Lead STOXX Portfolio

Date 13/11/2019

Financial intelligence provider Qontigo, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has announced the appointment of Stephan Flägel as Global Head of Indices & Benchmarks, effective as of December 2, 2019. In that role, he will oversee Qontigo’s index business. Flägel will assume the role from Steffen Hermanns, who has announced his decision to retire in 2020, and will report to Holger Wohlenberg, Chief Business Officer of Qontigo. He joins Qontigo from Refinitiv where he also served as Global Head of Indices & Benchmarks. 

Cannabis And U.S. Financial Services: The Investor And Capital Markets Landscape - The Latest Aite Group Report Finds That The U.S. Regulatory Situation Regarding Cannabis Has Resulted In Major U.S. Firms Effectively Ceding Business To Canada

Date 13/11/2019

The U.S. is losing capital markets cannabis business to Canada. The lack of a clear U.S. regulatory framework for cannabis impacts retail investor product access, broker-dealer custody and clearing, corporate banking, underwriting, and asset management. Aite Group’s new report, Cannabis and U.S. Financial Services: The Investor and Capital Markets Landscape, examines the ongoing regulatory progress to allow U.S. financial institutions to conduct cannabis-related capital markets activity. 

Axiom Alternative Investments Selects Quantifi’s Cloud Portfolio Risk Management Solution To Support Its New Credit Fund

Date 13/11/2019

Quantifi , a provider of risk, analytics and trading solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Axiom Alternative Investments (Axiom), a leading investment boutique, to support the launch of its new credit fund.  The long/short fund invests in credit instruments and aims to capture the value created by structural price anomalies.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Wholesale Distribution Steering Group - October 2019

Date 13/11/2019

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.

CISI’s Head Of Financial Planning Joins Global Financial Planning Committee

Date 13/11/2019

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is delighted to announce that the head of financial planning, Jacqueline Lockie CFP™ Chartered FCSI, has joined the Chief Executives Committee of Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB Ltd).

New BIS Innovation Hub Centre In Singapore

Date 13/11/2019

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today launched the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Singapore. This is the BIS's first expansion of its global footprint in 17 years.

Game-Changing 2nd Gen RegTech Launched By Evidology Systems To Address Challenges Of Principles-Based Regulations

Date 13/11/2019

The regulatory technology company, Evidology Systems, is launching its new service which uniquely combines real-time specialist legal opinion with principles-based regulations compliance software. Thought to be a true second-generation solution, the new service, called QED (Quality and Evidence Driven), is the only platform simplifying and optimising the process of demonstrating compliance to a regulation or conformance to a standard. This unique, visual system utilises current legal opinion to allow organisations of any size to demonstrate compliance at all times with increasingly-complex regulations, including GDPR, FRTB, SMCR, ISO 27001 and PSD2.

Eurex Fixed Income Highlights - November 2019 Edition

Date 13/11/2019

swap transactions. The trades were submitted by J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley as the first OTC FX clearing participants. Cross currency swaps are an important component of Deutsche Börse’s FX strategy, consisting of the FX offerings of Eurex, Eurex Clearing and 360T. 

Dar Al-Arkan Of Saudi Arabia Rings Market-Opening Bell To Celebrate Listing USD 600 Million Sukuk On Nasdaq Dubai

Date 13/11/2019

• Listing supports further expansion by one of Middle East’s largest real estate developers 
• Dubai is one of the world’s largest venues for Sukuk listings with  value totaling USD 64.3 billion 

Oslo Børs: Atlantic Sapphire Eins Star Of Innovation Award In Brussels

Date 13/11/2019

Atlantic Sapphire was named Star of Innovation in the EU Commission’s awards to the best companies recently listed on stock exchanges across Europe.