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Keynote Address By CFTC Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger: A Field Of Dreams

Date 28/09/2022

Good morning, and thank you for the honor of speaking with you today.  I am incredibly grateful to the World Federation of Exchanges for their invitation to be a part of this conference and participate in these important conversations.  And I am not just saying that because we are in Malta at a gorgeous hotel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

CryptoCompare, The Global Leader In Digital Asset Data And FCA-Authorised Benchmark Administrator, And Blockdaemon, The Leading Institutional-Grade Blockchain Infrastructure Company For Node Management And Staking, Today Announced The Launch Of Their Industry-First Family Of Staking Yield Indices Which Enable More Informed And Sophisticated Investment Strategies In A Regulated And Secure Environment.

Date 28/09/2022

CryptoCompare, the global leader in digital asset data and FCA-authorised benchmark administrator, and Blockdaemon, the leading institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking, today announced the launch of their industry-first family of Staking Yield Indices which enable more informed and sophisticated investment strategies in a regulated and secure environment. 

SpiderRock Selects Eventus For Trade Surveillance Solution

Date 28/09/2022

Eventus, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced today that SpiderRock Technology Services, a high-performance algorithmic execution and risk management technology provider to institutional trading clients, as well as agency broker-dealer and market data provider, has deployed the Validus platform for trade surveillance, initially for the firm’s client activity in futures and options on futures contracts.

JonesTrading And Boldwater Form Strategic Relationship

Date 28/09/2022

JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC ("JonesTrading"), a leading global banking and brokerage, today announced a strategic relationship with Boldwater Partners LLC ("Boldwater" or "Boldwater Partners"). 

Nasdaq Announces New Corporate Structure To Accelerate Strategy

Date 28/09/2022

• Organizes Nasdaq’s business units into three divisions: Market Platforms, Capital Access Platforms, and Anti-Financial Crime
• Positions Nasdaq to better deliver for clients and scale for the future

Steinberg & Cooper Consulting Ltd/Steinberg & Cooper Private Limited Company: BaFin Investigates Offer To Buy Purported Shares In “Porsche AG”

Date 28/09/2022

Steinberg & Cooper Consulting Ltd, London – also operating under the name Steinberg & Cooper Private Limited Company – makes unsolicited contact with German investors and offers purported shares in “Porsche AG” for purchase. The company has an online presence with its website steinbergcooper.com, where it also advertises time deposit investments (“investment packages”). BaFin would like to point out that this company is not authorised to offer shares or time deposit investments. The pre-market purchase offers for shares in Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft do not come from Volkswagen AG or any one of its subsidiaries.

Innovation In Post Trade Services - Opportunities, Risks And The Role For The Public Sector − Speech By Sir Jon Cunliffe, Bank Of England Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, Given At AFME Conference, London

Date 28/09/2022

In recent years, regulators and central banks have become increasingly focussed on ‘crypto’. No meeting of the international regulatory or central banking community takes place without a discussion of some aspect of the financial products, services and technologies that have come to be labelled ‘crypto’.

ESMA: Report On The Review Of The Clearing Thresholds Under EMIR

Date 28/09/2022

Reasons for publication

Regulation (EU) 2019/834 (referred to as EMIR Refit) introduced a mandate in EMIR for ESMA to periodically review the clearing thresholds (CTs) and update them when necessary, in order to ensure that the CTs remain appropriate. That periodic review should be accompanied by a report.

europemarket.io trading platform: BaFin investigates Economix

Date 28/09/2022

In accordance with section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), BaFin would like to make clear that Archax LTD, Sweden, does not have authorisation under the KWG to conduct banking business or provide financial services. The company, which previously also operated the economix.io platform, is not supervised by BaFin. There is no information that indicates any link between Archax LTD and the British company Archax Ltd.; rather, it is likely that the company registered in the United Kingdom has become the target of identity theft.

Bank Of England Announces Gilt Market Operation

Date 28/09/2022

In line with its financial stability objective, the Bank of England stands ready to restore market functioning and reduce any risks from contagion to credit conditions for UK households and businesses.