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World Economic Forum: We Shouldn’t Be Comparing The Coronavirus Crisis To 2008 - This Is Why

Date 08/04/2020

• Comparisons have been made between the coronavirus crisis and the crisis of 2008.
• But viewed through the lends of exogenous and endogenous risk, they're quite different.
• The policy response should therefore be different.

London Stock Exchange Group Plc Annual General Meeting Update

Date 08/04/2020

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG / the Company) announces the following changes to the format of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 21 April 2020.

CPMI And IOSCO: Jurisdictions Move Towards Full Implementation Of Standards For Financial Market Infrastructures

Date 08/04/2020

Today the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released an update showing that 25 of the 28 jurisdictions participating in the implementation monitoring programme have adopted measures implementing the international standards for all types of financial market infrastructures (FMIs). Since the 2019 update, two jurisdictions – Indonesia and Saudi Arabia – have completed the process of adopting measures that will enable them to implement the Principles for financial market infrastructures (PFMI) for all FMI types.

ACER Reports Applying Network Code On Gas Balancing Support Short-Term Markets

Date 08/04/2020

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) publishes today its report on enabling short-term gas markets after interim balancing measures (Fourth ACER Report on the implementation of the Balancing Network Code) with a view to end interim measures in the EU balancing zones. ACER has been reporting on the implementation of this Network Code since 2016.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Statement Of Policy: Listed Companies And Recapitalisation Issuances During The Coronavirus Crisis

Date 08/04/2020

The FCA announces a series of measures aimed at assisting companies to raise new share capital in response to the coronavirus crisis while retaining an appropriate degree of investor protection.

Coronavirus To Lead To Significant Economic Contraction Across EBRD Regions

Date 08/04/2020

The coronavirus pandemic will lead to a significant contraction in output across the EBRD’s emerging economies and a swift recovery, while possible, is not guaranteed, according to the latest assessment from the Bank’s economists.

DriveWealth Launches DriveHSA® To Support Health Savings Account(HSA) Industry - HSA Providers Can Leverage Comprehensive, Customizable Investing Program

Date 08/04/2020

DriveWealth, LLC<https://drivewealth.com/>, a U.S. based leader in global digital trading technology, today announced the launch of a new Health Savings Account (HSA) division, DriveHSA®. The new division aims to transform the HSA landscape by helping HSA platform providers enhance their current offerings with modern investing tools and allowing end-users to invest in real-time fractional shares of U.S. equities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and mutual funds.

Basel III Monitoring Results Based On End-June 2019 Data Published By The Basel Committee

Date 08/04/2020

• Prior to Covid-19, large internationally active banks made further progress towards meeting fully phased-in final Basel III capital requirements
• Their liquidity ratios remain stable compared with end-2018
• To increase operational capacity for banks and supervisors to respond to Covid-19, the Committee will not collect Basel III monitoring data for the end-June 2020 reporting date

IOSCO Reprioritizes Its Work Program To Address Impact Of COVID-19

Date 08/04/2020

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has agreed to pause or delay some of its work in 2020 in order to redirect its resources to focus on the multiple challenges securities markets regulators are addressing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. 

Solactive Announces New Collaboration With FinTech Platform C8 Technologies

Date 08/04/2020

Innovation in passive investing evolves constantly, step by step eclipsing traditional business models and ways to trade financial capital. A new player, financial technology platform C8 Technologies, challenges the status quo of the conventional index provider – product provider – asset owner flow-diagram enabling asset owners to invest directly in sophisticated strategies developed by index providers. Starting this April, a wide range of Solactive benchmark indices will be made available on C8 Technologies’ platform. Different kinds of investors, such as asset owners, asset managers, and hedge funds can all implement them in their portfolios.