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Thai Listed Firms Report Robust Growth In H1 Earnings On Easing COVID-19 Curbs

Date 26/08/2022

• SET-listed companies' total sales up 40.10 pct y-o-y to THB 8.60 trn in H1/2022
• H1 core operating profits up 32.90 pct to THB 1.08 trn
• H1 net profits up 13.90 pct to THB 596.59 bln

LCH RepoClear - August 2022 Recap

Date 26/08/2022

RepoRecap – August 2022

• RepoClear SA has extended its settlement connections to investor CSDs so that members are now able to settle Dutch Government bonds at Euroclear Netherlands and Austrian and Spanish Government bonds at Clearstream Banking AG. Read more.
• BMO Capital Markets is the third Canadian bank member to go live at LCH SA’s RepoClear service. Read more.
• 31 funds are now using RepoClear’s Sponsored Clearing for UK Gilts, with open outstanding growing over 70% in 2022. Find out more about the service here.
• RepoClear SA has now gone live with its enriched Value at Risk (VaR) risk methodology, applied across the 13 Euro debt markets cleared by the service. Read more.

Infront Acquires Assetmax

Date 26/08/2022

Infront AS has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Assetmax AG. The acquisition represents an important milestone for Infront as the company further strengthens its product offering for wealth management customers across Europe. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of September at the latest, subject to customary conditions.

Japan Financial Services Agency: Release Of “Pilot Scenario Analysis Exercise On Climate-Related Risks Based On Common Scenarios”

Date 26/08/2022

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ), in cooperation with three major banks and three major non-life insurance groups, conducted a pilot scenario analysis using scenarios published by the Network for Greening the Financial System as common scenarios. 

London Stock Exchange Group Plc Purchase Of Own Shares

Date 26/08/2022

LSEG announces it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each from Goldman Sachs International ("GSI") on the London Stock Exchange pursuant to instructions issued by LSEG on 5 August 2022 as part of its share buyback programme, as announced on 5 August 2022.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange - Embark On A New Journey At 2nd Anniversary Of Implementation Of Registration-Based IPO System Of ChiNext Board: Gather Innovation Capital And Energize Growth Drive

Date 26/08/2022

On 27 April 2020, the Central Committee for Deepening Overall Reform considered and approved the Overall Implementation Plan for the ChiNext Board Reform and the Pilot Project of the Registration-based IPO System. After 119 days of hard work, on 24 August 2020, the first 18 companies were successfully listed under the ChiNext Board reform and the pilot project of the registration-based IPO system, marking a solid step in the “incremental + existing business” reform of the capital market. Over the past two years, SZSE has implemented in depth the decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Adhering to the positioning of the ChiNext Board, we have continuously focused on the “deep end” of the reform and implemented the reform with our own advantages and characteristics. We have highlighted the promotion of technological innovation, improved the services for high-tech enterprises, enterprises from strategic emerging industries and startups with great growth potential, and further facilitated high-level circulation of technology, capital and the real economy. SZSE has become a new ground to support the innovative economic development of China.

SGX-ST Listings Disciplinary Committee Reprimands Aspen (Group) Holdings Limited, Its Group CEO, Dato’ Murly Manokharan, And Its Executive Directors, Dato’ Seri Nazir Ariff Bin Mushir Ariff And Ir. Anilarasu Amaranazan

Date 26/08/2022

Public Reprimand: Breaches of Listing Rules

CTBC Investments Selects ICE FactSet Selected Financials And Data Industry Index for New ETF

Date 26/08/2022

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced that CTBC Investments Co., Ltd. (“CTBC Investments”) has selected the ICE FactSet® Selected Financials and Data Industry Index for its newly launched CTBC Selected Financials and Data Industry ETF.

Late Summer Sunshine: Statement On The Adoption Of Pay Versus Performance, SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw, Aug. 25, 2022

Date 25/08/2022

Today the Commission adopted a rule that provides investors with information about how corporate executives are paid. That is, quite simply, it. This rule does not regulate the way companies incentivize their executives, but rather the disclosures that companies are required to make about such compensation. More specifically, Pay Versus Performance disclosures give investors insight into how performance measures impact executive compensation, in order to allow investors to better understand how boards pay their company executives

SEC Charges Infrastructure Company Granite Construction And Former Executive With Financial Reporting Fraud

Date 25/08/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Granite Construction, Incorporated and its former Senior Vice President, Dale Swanberg, with fraud for inflating the financial performance of the major subdivision Swanberg managed. In 2021, Granite restated its financial statements from 2017 through 2019 to correct revenue and profit margin errors allegedly caused by Swanberg’s misconduct. The company agreed to pay $12 million to settle the SEC’s charges.