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EBA Updates List Of Public Sector Entities For The Calculation Of Capital Requirements

Date 18/10/2017

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated list of public sector entities (PSEs) that may be treated as regional governments, local authorities or central governments for the calculation of capital requirements, in accordance with the EU Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). 

Moscow Exchange Risk Parameters Change

Date 18/10/2017

NCC Clearing Bank is changing Securities market risk parameters starting from October 19, 2017 according to the tables below.

SEC Announces 2017 Government-Business Forum To Be Held At University Of Texas At Austin

Date 18/10/2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it is partnering with the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Renewal at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin to host the SEC’s annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation on November 30.  This annual forum provides a platform to highlight additional measures to improve small business capital formation and address whether unnecessary, duplicative, or outdated regulations can be eliminated or reduced.

LCH Clears First Swaps Referencing SARON

Date 18/10/2017

• Migration to new Swiss reference rate comes ahead of discontinuation of TOIS on 29 December 2017
• SwapClear has cleared circa CHF 30 trillion in Swiss Franc-denominated interest rate derivatives since the service’s inception
• Basler Kantonalbank, Credit Suisse and Zürcher Kantonalbank among the first members to clear using the new rate

Blake Grossman, Former BlackRock Vice Chairman And CEO Of Barclays Global Investors, Joins Board Of Directors At Axioma

Date 18/10/2017

Axioma, Inc. announced today the election of Blake Grossman to the company’s Board of Directors.

Derivatives Industry Joins Forces To Launch Futuresfundamentals.org Education Resource

Date 18/10/2017

Today at FIA Expo, the largest gathering of futures market participants in the world, futuresfundamentals.org was launched to provide information and curriculum for learners of all levels to understand the role that derivatives markets play in the global economy and our everyday lives. 

SWIFT To Streamline Standard Migration Process With New Message Translation Offering - New Offering Allows Institutions And Market Infrastructures To Translate Messages From Any Format To ISO 20022 Or MT

Date 18/10/2017

SWIFT is launching a message translation offering that will allow users to define and validate messages from any format to ISO 20022, streamlining the process of migrating to a new standard.

TASE Establishes A Nominee Company

Date 18/10/2017

• Digital registration services are to be offered to public companies, for the first time in Israel
• ​The tariffs that the nominee company will charge public companies will be 30% lower than those currently being charged by the nominee companies owned by the banks
• The nominee company will offer its full range of operationsfrom january 2018

SWIFT Expands Name Screening To Support Small Firms And Emerging Markets In Preventing Financial Crime - Hosted Utility Service Enables Firms To Screen Entire Databases And Single Names Against Evolving Sanctions And PEP Lists

Date 18/10/2017

SWIFT has expanded its Name Screening service to enable smaller firms and institutions in emerging markets to screen customer databases against sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) lists to prevent financial crime.

Al Mawared Flash Note - Insurance Sector

Date 18/10/2017

Click here to download Al Mawared Brokerage's latest Flash Note. The Report highlights the latest development in the Jordanian Insurance Sector.