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Harnessing AI And Technology To Deliver The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s 2025 Strategic Priorities - Speech By Jessica Rusu, FCA Chief Data, Information And Intelligence Officer, Delivered At The AI And Digital Innovation Summit As Part Of City Week 2025

Date 01/07/2025

Highlights

• Innovation is central to our new strategy and will help us deliver on all 4 of the pillars including growth.
• We’re already seeing firms that want to come and test through the Supercharged Sandbox.
• We’ve received broad support for AI Live Testing and remain of the view that firms can be developing AI services, without new rules from us.

Synchronisation And Beyond: Enabling The Next Wave Of Financial Innovation − Speech By Victoria Cleland, Bank Of England, Executive Director, Payments, Given At The 15th Annual Edition Of City Week

Date 01/07/2025

Building on her remarks at the UK Finance Digital Innovation Summit highlighting the benefits unlocked by the renewed RTGS service, RT2, Victoria Cleland gives an update on the Bank's plans for a synchronised settlement and programme of experiments in wholesale payments. She highlights how the Bank is laying the foundations for innovation in payments to enable broader benefits and economic growth.

ESMA Promotes Clarity In Sustainability-Related Communications

Date 01/07/2025

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, published today a thematic note on sustainability-related claims used in non-regulatory communications. 

Fiserv Named To TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025 - Global Fintech Leader Recognized For “Making Direct Payments Possible” Through Clover, The World’s Smartest Point-Of-Sale System

Date 01/07/2025

Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE: FI), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, today announced that it has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025 list for the first time in the company’s 40-year history. Selected by TIME editors with insights from global contributors and correspondents, plus outside experts, the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list celebrates companies shaping the future through impact, innovation, ambition, and success.

Eurex Clearing - Re-Emerging Markets: The European Giant Awakens

Date 01/07/2025

Europe’s economic outlook is getting significantly brighter, as shown by both economic data and the optimistic expectations of companies and consumers. After several years of economic challenges, marked by the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, the energy crisis, and geopolitical tensions, signs of an economic recovery are emerging in Europe, a continent with 450 million consumers. But what are the reasons for this new optimism?

Deutsche Börse Cash Market Trading Volumes In June 2025

Date 01/07/2025

Deutsche Börse’s cash markets generated a turnover of €138.00 billion in June (previous year: €106.75 billion / previous month: €152.20 billion).

The New York Stock Exchange Leads Globally With Over $60BN In Total Capital Raised During First Half Of 2025 - The NYSE Lists Largest And Best-Performing IPOs Year-To-Date And Leads In New Listings

Date 01/07/2025

The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, today reported an industry-leading $61 billion in total capital raised during the first half of 2025, up nearly 40% versus the same period last year.

Nasdaq Nordic And Baltic Markets Trading Statistics June 2025

Date 01/07/2025

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today publishes monthly trade statistics for the Nordic and Baltic markets. Below follows a summary of the statistics for June 2025:

The EBA Publishes Its Final Guidelines On Acquisition, Development And Construction Exposures To Residential Property Under The Standardised Approach Of Credit Risk

Date 01/07/2025

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final Guidelines on the treatment of Acquisition, Development and Construction (ADC) exposures to residential property under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The Guidelines specify the conditions under which institutions may apply a risk weight of 100% instead of 150% to ADC exposures that meet defined credit risk-mitigating requirements. These Guidelines form part of the first phase of the EBA’s roadmap on credit risk implementation of the EU Banking Package. The Guidelines follow a public consultation launched in May 2024 and take into account stakeholder feedback as well as data collected through the related 2024 Quantitative Impact Study (QIS).

Nasdaq Welcomes 142 IPOs In The First Half Of 2025

Date 01/07/2025

• Highest volume of listings and capital raise in the first half of the year since 2021
• Maintained leadership in switches - crossed $3 trillion in market value transferred since 2005
• Driving smart policy reforms to improve regulatory processes for public companies