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Borsa İstanbul’s Opening Bell Rang For Global Money Week

Date 21/03/2022

In Turkey, Global Money Week launched with the Opening Bell Ceremony organized in cooperation with Fo-der and Borsa İstanbul.

Fiserv And MX Enable Secure Consumer Financial Data Access To Accelerate Future Of Open Finance - Companies Facilitate Access To Tokenized Consumer Data To Enable Businesses To Better Serve Customers Across Their Many Financial Touchpoints

Date 21/03/2022

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, and MX, a financial data platform provider and a leader in modern connectivity, are accelerating the future of open finance through secure, reliable consumer financial data sharing. MX is the first company to access tokenized consumer data via AllData® Connect from Fiserv, to better enable a more secure way for consumers to share their financial data with their favorite apps or services.

Worldline And Mainsys Implement An Innovative Visa Debit-Bancontact Card Solution - A Bundled Innovative Account And Payment Card Solution Is Now Available For Banks And Neo-Banks

Date 21/03/2022

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global leader in payments services, has entered a partnership with Mainsys Financial Software, a Belgian IT company that offers comprehensive banking solutions. The joint solution has been recently rolled out for the first time to manage co-badged Visa Debit-Bancontact cards.

ICE Launches Biotechnology Index Futures And Semiconductor Index Futures Contracts

Date 21/03/2022

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced that it has launched two new thematic equity index futures contracts: the ICE Biotechnology Gross Total Return (GTR) Index and the ICE Semiconductor GTR Index futures contracts.

FSB Report Finds That COVID-19 Has Accelerated The Trend Towards Digitalisation Of Retail Financial Services

Date 21/03/2022

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today a report about FinTech and Market Structure in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ICE Launches Multi-Faceted Global Brand And Advertising Campaign

Date 21/03/2022

• The new commercial -- titled “Make the Connection” -- evokes the heart of ICE’s business model of creating transparency in markets to help drive opportunity
• The updated brand further unifies the company and tells the ICE story as one cohesive organization

Clearlake Capital And Motive Partners Agree To Acquire BETA+ From London Stock Exchange Group - Clearlake Capital And Motive Partners To Acquire BETA, Maxit, And Digital Investor From LSEG, Adding New Capabilities To Their Wealth Ecosystem, And Forms A Strategic Partnership Between BETA+, The Sponsors’ Portfolio Companies And LSEG

Date 21/03/2022

Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. ("Clearlake") and Motive Partners ("Motive" and collectively, the “Sponsors”), today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the BETA+ assets from London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG”), which encompasses the assets of BETA (securities processing, custody, clearing, and asset servicing technology), Maxit (cost and tax basis reporting software), and Digital Investor (front-end client solutions), collectively referred to as “BETA+”. Additionally, Clearlake and Motive Partners have simultaneously formed a long-term strategic partnership with LSEG, in which LSEG will provide content, data, and tools to BETA+ and the Sponsors’ other portfolio companies.

LSEG To Divest BETA+ To Clearlake And Motive And Enters Strategic Partnership In Wealth With BETA+

Date 21/03/2022

London Stock Exchange Group plc ("LSEG") today announces it has agreed to divest BETA, Maxit and Digital Investor (collectively “BETA+”) to affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group L.P (“Clearlake”) and Motive Partners (“Motive”) for a total cash consideration of $1,100 million (“the Transaction”), before tax and separation costs. The Transaction is expected to complete in H2 2022 and is subject to the satisfaction of certain customary conditions, including the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and certain customer consents.

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Reports The Results Of The Financial Statements For The Fourth Quarter And For 2021- Record Growth In All Parameters For TASE In 2021, With A 23% Increase In The Net Profit - TASE Will Distribute A Dividend Of 50% Of The Profit, In An Amount Of NIS 22.7 Million - TASE Plans A Buyback Of Up To NIS 100 Million

Date 21/03/2022

• Revenues in the fourth quarter of 2021 totaled NIS 86 million, an 11% increase compared to the revenues in the corresponding quarter last year.​
• TASE's revenues for 2021 totaled NIS 324 million, compared to NIS 304 million in 2020, an increase of 6%.
  
• The profit in the fourth quarter of 2021 totaled NIS 14 million, compared to NIS 11 million in the corresponding quarter last year, a 25% increase between the quarters.
• In the full year 2021, the profit totaled NIS 45 million, compared to NIS 37 million in 2020, a 23% increase.
• The adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter of 2021 totaled NIS 30 million, compared to NIS 26 million in the corresponding quarter last year, a 14% increase between the quarters;
• The adjusted EBITDA for 2021 totaled NIS 103 million, compared to NIS 95 million in 2020, an increase of 8% between the years.
• ·In 2021, 94 IPO's, including 61 high-tech companies and R&D partnerships, raised a total of NIS 10.5 billion - the highest number of IPOs since 1993. 
• Foreign investments on TASE reached the highest volume in more than a decade, at NIS 13 billion.
• ​TASE Board of Directors has instructed the management to formulate a buyback plan for the Company's shares, in an amount of up to NIS 100 million and for a period of up to two years, in light of the company's financial position and cash balances. The buyback will benefit with investors and shareholders.

Bank Of England: Implementation Of Basel Standards

Date 21/03/2022

In 2021, the PRA published two policy statementsfootnote[1] footnote[2] covering a number of the internationally-agreed Basel III standards that remained to be implemented in the UK.