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Bank Of England: FCA Recognises The Revised FX Global Code And The Precious Metals Code

Date 19/11/2021

The Bank of England welcomes the announcement today by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that it has recognised the Precious Metals Code and the revised FX Global Code (FX Code) under its codes recognition scheme. The FCA’s scheme was launched in 2018 and is for codes that apply to unregulated financial markets and activities. The FCA first recognised the FX Code in June 2019, and has re-recognised it following the Global Foreign Exchange Committee’s (GFXC) three-year review. 

UK Financial Conduct Authority Confirms Recognition Of The Revised FX Global Code And The Global Precious Metals Code

Date 19/11/2021

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is today confirming under its code recognition scheme that it is:

• Recognising the updated FX Global Code  (the FX Code) - maintained and updated by the Global Foreign Exchange Committee, this Code sets principles of good practice standards for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, promoting the integrity and effective functioning of the wholesale FX market.
• Recognising the Global Precious Metals Code (the PM Code) - maintained and updated by the London Bullion Market Association, setting out principles to promote the integrity and effective functioning of the global precious metals market. 

ESMA: New Q&As Available

Date 19/11/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, has today updated the following Questions and Answers:

• Benchmarks Regulation
• Central Securities Depositories Regulation
• EMIR implementation
• European crowdfunding service providers for business Regulation
• MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection topics
• Securitisation Regulation

Economic Outlook: Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller At The Center For Financial Stability, New York, New York

Date 19/11/2021

It is a pleasure to speak today at the Center for Financial Stability, and I look forward to our conversation. Let me take the next several minutes to speak about the continued improvement of the U.S. economy, recent inflation data, and their implications for monetary policy. I will also discuss the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) recent decision to begin reducing monthly purchases of securities and how incoming data may affect the pace of tapering. Finally, I will address issues concerning the size of our balance sheet.

McKinsey Affiliate To Pay $18 Million For Compliance Failures In Handling Of Nonpublic Information

Date 19/11/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that an affiliate of McKinsey & Company that offers investment options exclusively to current and former McKinsey partners and employees has agreed to pay an $18 million penalty for compliance failures. The SEC’s investigation found that the affiliate maintained inadequate policies and procedures to prevent McKinsey partners from misusing material nonpublic information they obtained as consultants to public companies and other McKinsey clients while they were simultaneously overseeing the affiliate’s investment decisions.

Moscow Exchange:Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 19/11/2021

The following risk parameters will be changed:

Borsa İstanbul Continues To Inform Companies And Investors

Date 19/11/2021

Borsa İstanbul, which continues to inform its stakeholders with the content it has published, now also prepared the “IPO and Listing on Borsa İstanbul” and “Investing in Borsa İstanbul Markets" guides.

Cessation Of The WIG-Telecom Index And Change Of Name Of The WIG.GAMES Index To WIG.GAMES5 On December 20, 2021

Date 19/11/2021

GPW Benchmark S.A. informs about the cessation of the publication of the WIG-telecom and change of name of the WIG.GAMES to WIG.GAMES5. December 17, 2021 will be the last day of publication of the WIG-telecom at all and the WIG.GAMES under the old name. December 20, 2021 will be the first day of publication of the latter index under the name WIG.GAMES5.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Enters Examination Stage In The Registration Of First UK Securitisation Repositories

Date 19/11/2021

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announces that it has assessed completeness and now reached the examination stage in the assessment process of applications received from Securitisation Repositories (SRs) under the UK Securitisation Regulation.

Gas Tariffs Reports: ACER Recommends Slovenia To Improve The Compliance Of The Proposed Tariff Methodology

Date 19/11/2021

The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) publishes today its second report on the implementation of the EU Network Code on Harmonised Transmission Tariff Structures for Gas in Slovenia. In the report, ACER recommends that the Slovenian national regulatory authority for energy (NRA) improves the compliance of the reference price methodology with the requirements of the Tariff Network Code, including on transparency and on the choice of the cost drivers used to derive tariffs for all points of the network.