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Acuiti Launches Crypto Derivatives Expert Network And Releases First Report

Date 07/04/2022

Acuiti today launches its new Crypto Derivatives Expert Network, a virtual forum of senior industry professionals from the digital assets markets.

FactSet’s Execution Management System Adds Integration With Appital’s Bookbuilding Platform - Integration With Portware EMS Enables More Efficient And Transparent Bookbuilding And Price Formation For Buyside Traders

Date 07/04/2022

Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, today announced an integration with FactSet’s (NYSE: FDS) (NASDAQ: FDS) Portware Enterprise Execution Management System (EMS), giving clients access to Appital’s revolutionary bookbuilding platform. 

Worldline Selected By Monoprix For Its New Omnichannel Payment Platform Across All Of Its Stores

Date 07/04/2022

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global leader in payment services, has been chosen by Monoprix to roll out its payment platform across all 700 of its stores in 250 towns in France.  The roll-out includes its six retail chains: Monoprix, monop’, monop’daily, monop’beauty, monop’station and Naturalia.

US Challenger Battle Financial, Inc. Selects Temenos Banking Cloud - Battle Financial, Inc. Chooses Temenos Core Banking And Payments To Offer Deposits, FX And Precious Metals Accounts

Date 07/04/2022

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the cloud banking platform, today announced that Battle Financial, Inc. has selected Temenos Banking Cloud to underpin the global markets technology stack for Battle Bank. With Temenos core banking and payments solutions, Battle Bank will be able to offer its clients a diverse set of opportunities in F.D.I.C. insured foreign currency and market index deposits and the ability to acquire, store, and borrow against non-F.D.I.C. insured precious metals.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Launches Three-Year Strategy To Improve Outcomes

Date 07/04/2022

• Resources focused on outcomes to prevent serious harm, set higher standards and promote competition
• 80 new roles created to shut down problem firms 

SGX RegCo’s Statement On Allied Technologies Limited’s Special Audit Report

Date 07/04/2022

Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) refers to the Notices of Compliance (NOC) issued to Allied Technologies Limited (the Company or ATL) on 8 and 23 May 2019 and the Company’s announcement dated 6 April 2022 on the special audit report prepared by the special auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers Risk Services Pte Ltd (PwC). PwC reported the findings directly and solely to SGX RegCo.

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Publicly Criticises Gao Yunhong And Feng Xuelian For Breaches Of The Takeovers Code

Date 07/04/2022

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has publicly criticised Gao Yunhong and Feng Xuelian for breaching the no frustrating action rules under the Takeovers Code.

Dubai Financial Services Authority Introduces Whistleblowing Regime

Date 07/04/2022

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has today launched its regulatory regime for Whistleblowing. The regime is the first of its kind to be introduced by a financial service regulator in the UAE and applies to all DFSA Regulated Entities operating in or from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

DIFC Launches First Global Venture Studio Launchpad To Grow The “Ubiquitous Finance” Ecosystem From Dubai

Date 07/04/2022

• New initiative, part of DIFC Strategy 2030, to use venture studios as a mechanism to incubate 10 unicorns, 100 scale-ups and over 8,000 innovation jobs from Dubai.
• Global first to provide a Venture Studio Launchpad and Research Living Lab to develop the “ubiquitous finance” ecosystem including Open Finance, Digital Assets and Web3 in DIFC.
• Reaffirms Dubai’s position as a global hub for financial technology and innovation.
• Designed in collaboration with Enhance Ventures, a leading venture studio in MENA and Silicon Foundry, a Silicon Valley-based innovation advisory group.

ASIC: Westpac To Pay $1.5 Million Penalty For Mis-Selling Consumer Credit Insurance

Date 07/04/2022

The Federal Court has ordered Westpac Banking Corporation pay a $1.5 million penalty for mis-selling consumer credit insurance with its credit cards and Flexi Loans to customers who had not agreed to buy insurance policies.