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Bybit Completes Integration Of Arbitrum

Date 27/01/2022

Bybit, one of the world's fastest growing cryptocurrency exchanges, has completed the integration of the Arbitrum mainnet. With this integration, Bybit users can now deposit and withdraw Ether (ETH), Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) on the Arbitrum network from Jan. 27 onwards.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 27/01/2022

The following risk parameters will be changed:

EU Option Finance AG: BaFin Investigates Against The Responsible Persons

Date 27/01/2022

Pursuant to Section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (KWG), BaFin clarifies that "EU Option Finance AG", allegedly based in 42781 Haan, Frankfurt am Main, does not hold a license under the KWG to provide financial services. The company is not supervised by BaFin.

ESMA Consults On CCP Anti-Procyclicality Measures

Date 27/01/2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, today launches a consultation paper to review the European Market Infrastructure Regulation’s (EMIR) requirements on anti-procyclicality (APC) margin measures for central counterparties (CCPs).

State Street Global Markets: Investor Confidence Increases 4.5 Points In January To 89.3

Date 27/01/2022

State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for January 2022.

ESMA Consults On The Review Of MiFID II Suitability Guidelines

Date 27/01/2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, is consulting on certain aspects of suitability requirements under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), in order to update its  guidelines following amendments to MiFID II relating to sustainability.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security SAP-RM

Date 27/01/2022

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 27.01.2022, 12-03 (MSK) the lower bound of the price band (up to 8927) and initial margins (up to 25 %) for the security SAP-RM were changed. New values are available here

Buy-Side Firms Now Able To Offset Margins On Futures And Swaps Cleared At Eurex

Date 27/01/2022

• Societe Generale and BNP Paribas offering cross product margining services to their clients 
• First large hedge fund to take advantage of cross product margining
• Average Daily Cleared Volume in long-dated interest rate swaps and overnight index swaps up 31 percent y-o-y to EUR 32 billion in 2021

Streets Consulting Appoints Clare Black As Managing Director - Former Director Of Corporate Affairs And Communications At Innovate Finance Joins Streets Consulting To Steer The Business Through Its Next Phase Of Growth

Date 27/01/2022

Streets Consulting, the financial services and technology business development, marketing and communications consultancy, today announced the appointment of Clare Black as Managing Director. Clare joins from Innovate Finance, where she served as Director of Corporate Affairs & Communications for the UK Fintech industry trade body.

180Protocol Launches Distributed Network Infrastructure For Enterprise Value Sharing - Open Source Collaboration Tool Enables The Mobility Of Sensitive And Confidential Business Data

Date 27/01/2022

180Protocol, the data sharing infrastructure built on R3’s DLT application development platform, Corda, and its confidential computing platform, Conclave, has launched the alpha release of its collaboration technology into open-source.