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Shining A Light On Corporate Democracy: Statement On Updates To Form N-PX, SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee, Sept. 29, 2021

Date 29/09/2021

Corporations are owned by shareholders and shareholders have a voice in how their companies are run. That voice comes through the voting rights attached to their shares. Who handles that voting? Largely, investment companies (“funds”) and institutional investment managers (“managers”) because most Americans who invest do so through funds and other intermediaries. As a result, funds and managers wield significant influence at the corporate ballot box. Opinions vary widely about whether to vote for or against specific proxy proposals. That’s as it should be; that’s how corporate democracy works. In fact, it’s that divergence of views that makes transparency around how votes are cast all the more important. That is what today’s proposal is about.

Novus Announces New Illiquid Portfolio Capabilities For Asset Allocators And Managers - Enhancements Of The Novus Platform For Portfolio Intelligence Allow For Full User Control Of Portfolio Data

Date 29/09/2021

Novus Partners, a portfolio intelligence company servicing both asset allocators and managers, today announced significant updates to its platform as it relates to the ingestion and analysis of ‘deep’ portfolio data.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change On Securities Market

Date 29/09/2021

CCP NCC is changing risk parameters on Securities market starting from September 30, 2021:

Basel III Monitoring Results Based On End-December 2020 Data

Date 29/09/2021

• During the Covid-19 crisis, banks made further progress towards meeting fully phased-in final Basel III capital requirements.
• On average banks improved their capital and liquidity ratios compared with end-2019.
• Basel III monitoring dashboard now also provides an interactive visualisation of the results on credit risk.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 29/09/2021

The following risk parameters will be changed:

Borsa İstanbul Announces Constituent Changes To The BIST-KYD Fund Indices For The Fourth Quarter Of 2021

Date 29/09/2021

Referring to article 3.3. of the BIST-KYD Indices Ground Rules, constituent changes to the BIST-KYD Fixed Income Fund Index and BIST-KYD Equity Fund Index for the fourth quarter of 2021 are determined.

Bank Of England: Membership Of CBDC Engagement And Technology Forums

Date 29/09/2021

The Bank of England and HM Treasury have today announced the membership of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) Engagement and Technology Forums. The creation of these groups was announced in April 2021, alongside the CBDC Taskforce which coordinates the exploration of a potential UK CBDC.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Announces That It Will Compel ICE Benchmark Administration To Publish 1-, 3- And 6-Month Sterling And Japanese Yen “Synthetic” LIBOR

Date 29/09/2021

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, today noted that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will compel ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA), the authorized and regulated administrator of LIBOR®, to publish the 1-, 3- and 6-Month sterling and Japanese yen LIBOR settings under a changed, unrepresentative, “synthetic” methodology for a limited time period after the end of 2021.

Enabling Open Finance Through APIs: Report On Payment Initiation - Report By The Consultative Group On Innovation And The Digital Economy (CGIDE) Established At The BIS Representative Office For The Americas

Date 29/09/2021

This report summarises the analysis conducted by the Technical Task Force (TTF) of the Consultative Group on Innovation and the Digital Economy (CGIDE) on the solutions available for payment initiation within a centralized application programming interface (API) architecture.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security SU46011RMFS1

Date 29/09/2021

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 29.09.2021, 14-46 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 182.751) and initial margins (up to 50 %) for the security SU46011RMFS1 were changed. New values are available here