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Volante Technologies Powers Major Custodian Bank To Successfully Complete Pilot Testing On The FedNow Instant Payments Network - The Collaboration Helps The Industry Drive Ubiquity Of U.S. Real-Time Payments And Positions Volante As A Payments Pioneer In The Industry

Date 29/06/2023

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments modernization, today announced it has been working with a leading U.S. banking customer to help the custodian bank successfully complete pilot testing on the FedNowSM instant payments service. 

GPW Launches Warsaw Sustainable Segment

Date 29/06/2023

• The Warsaw Stock Exchange is launching the Warsaw Sustainable Segment
• A dedicated section on the website www.gpwcatalyst.pl will present information on sustainable debt instruments listed on the markets organised by GPW.
• GPW’s project is part of the Ministry of Finance’s initiative to develop a Sustainable Finance Platform in order to build a regional hub for green finance in Poland
• GPW’s focus on sustainable debt instruments will promote such instruments and their issuers

First Turbo Certificates On Five US Stocks Newly Listed On GPW

Date 29/06/2023

• Turbo structured certificates based on the stock price of Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla were introduced to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 29 June 2023
• At the moment, these are the only certificates on US stocks traded on GPW
• The issuer of the certificates is ING N.V.

How The Bank Of England Is Driving Trust And Transparency With The LEI - Tanveer Bhatti, Lead Policy Analyst At Bank Of England

Date 29/06/2023

Tanveer Bhatti, Lead Policy Analyst at the Bank of England, explains the role that the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is playing in promoting trust and transparency across the UK’s financial sector.

How Innovation And Regulation In Financial Services Can Drive The UK's Economic Growth, Speech By Sheldon Mills, UK Financial Conduct Authority Executive Director, Consumers And Competition, Delivered At The CityUK On FCA’s Growth And Competitiveness Objective

Date 29/06/2023

Highlights

• The FCA has always played a significant role in supporting innovation and growth in financial services and welcomes the codification of this role in promoting growth and international competitiveness ahead of the proposed new secondary objective
• We stand ready to embrace new opportunities to grow the UK economy: our adoption of innovative regulatory approaches, and our work to tackle harm, underpin sustainable economic growth and international competitiveness.
• Growth should never be at the expense of the wider economy or through defrauding vulnerable customers.
• Any new metrics to measure our contribution to growth and competitiveness must be ones which measure factors within our control. 

COX Energy To Start Trading In BME Growth On 3 July

Date 29/06/2023

The Board of Directors of the Market has approved the listing of COX ENERGY on 3 July following a thorough review of all the information presented by the company and after the favourable assessment report on its listing issued by the Coordination and Admission Committee. This is the fifth company to join this BME market so far this year and the first company to be listed on both BME Growth and the Mexican Stock Exchange.

The UK Prudential Regulation Authority Consults On Major Elements Of The New Solvency UK Framework, With Measures To Simplify The Framework, Improve Flexibility, And Support Growth And Competitiveness

Date 29/06/2023

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is consulting today on a major set of reforms to Solvency II with the aim of creating a new UK regulatory regime for insurance firms, known as Solvency UK, which is better adapted to the UK insurance market. The proposals include further streamlining of reporting requirements for all firms and substantially simplifying and improving the flexibility in the assessment of internal models. They will also foster new entrants into the UK insurance market by easing entry of new firms and simplifying the regulation of international insurers operating through branches.

HKEX Signs Cooperation Agreement With Beijing Stock Exchange

Date 29/06/2023

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce it has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Beijing Stock Exchange (BSE). The MOU reflects both exchanges’ commitment to building long-term cooperation in support of cross listings; and sharing insight and expertise to promote the growth of capital markets in both Hong Kong and Beijing.

BME: The MARF Registers A New Securitisation Bonds Programme For 200 Million Euros Of Pensium

Date 29/06/2023

BME's fixed income market, MARF, has admitted to trading a new EUR 200 million bond issuance programme of the Pensium ESG I Securitisation Fund. The new programme will allow Pensium Direct, the Fund's transferor, to access the fixed income markets in a flexible manner to finance its activity and growth.

HKEX Signs Cooperation Agreement With Ningbo Municipal People’s Government

Date 29/06/2023

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) and Ningbo Municipal People’s Government today (Monday) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen cooperation, and in particular support Ningbo-based companies that are interested in seeking a listing in Hong Kong.