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European Alternatives On Track For Record Fundraising Year, Poised To Support A Recovering Europe - Role Of Private Capital Crucial In Europe’s Recovery From COVID-19 And The Transition To Carbon Neutrality

Date 15/09/2021

Preqin, the global leader in alternative assets data, analytics, and insights, is pleased to announce the launch of its 2021 Alternative Assets in Europe Report, produced with leading European asset manager Amundi for the fourth year in a row. Preqin and Amundi share a common vision of providing the investor community with authoritative data, transparency, and standardization for private markets to support their growth. This report – the largest study of its kind – looks at how the industry has developed in the main sectors and asset classes, exploring current trends across 13 key European markets, with in-depth coverage on 6 leading markets. 

Diffusion 6.7 – Introduces Secure Personalized Data Delivery To Individual Clients Plus New CDC Database Adapter

Date 15/09/2021

Push Technology, the pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, today announced powerful new personalized client data delivery capability in the company’s Diffusion Intelligent Event-Data Platform, that consumes, enriches, and delivers data among applications, systems, and devices. This announcement ups the competitive game stakes for other messaging and event broker vendors such as Kafka, Tibco, and Informatica.

“Best Interest” Vs “Good Outcome” For Consumers? - CISI Members Give Their Verdict In FCA Consumer Duty Response

Date 15/09/2021

The majority of CISI wealth managers and financial planners have agreed they would prefer to see the words “best interest” rather than “good outcome” in the FCA drafting of the Consumer Principle for their latest consultation paper.

Equiduct Selects big xyt To Provide Data Analytics - Successful Implementation Provides Exchange With Independent Data Analytics To Further Enhance Market Quality And Performance Reporting

Date 15/09/2021

big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community, is pleased to announce that Equiduct, the pan-European equities and ETFs exchange, has implemented big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit to gain new insights into the pan-European liquidity landscape and the quality of execution achieved via Equiduct’s Apex service.

SMS One-Time Passwords Diverted To Perform Fraudulent Card Payments - Singapore’s Banking And Telecommunication Systems Not Compromised

Date 15/09/2021

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and Singapore Police Force (SPF) said today that malicious actors overseas had diverted and used SMS one-time passwords (OTPs) to perform fraudulent credit card transactions affecting 75 bank customers in Singapore. These transactions, amounting to approximately S$500,000 in total, occurred between September and December 2020. Customers had reported that they had not initiated the transactions nor received the SMS OTPs required to perform these transactions.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Sets Out Plan To Tackle Investment Harm

Date 15/09/2021

The consumer investments market accounts for £1.6 trillion held or invested by consumers through the services of over 6,000 wealth managers, advisors and investment platforms. While most of this market meets consumers’ needs, there are some areas where harm is occurring.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change On Securities Market

Date 15/09/2021

CCP NCC changes PcH_max parameter value that defines price up limit on Securities market starting from September 15, 2021:

Japan Financial Services Agency: Stewardship Code - 316 Institutional Investors Have Signed Up To The Principles For Responsible Institutional Investors As Of August 31, 2021

Date 15/09/2021

The Council of Experts Concerning the Japanese Version of the Stewardship Code (Chairman: Professor Hiroyuki Kansaku, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics) published the Principles for Institutional Investors (Japan’s Stewardship Code, hereinafter referred to as "the Code") on February 26, 2014.

Shanghai Gold Exchange: Notification On Market Risk Control During The Mid-Autumn Festival In 2021

Date 15/09/2021

According to the holiday schedule of SGE, the market will be closed from September 18th (Saturday) to September 21st (Tuesday), the market will reopen on September 22nd (Wednesday), and there will be no night trading session on September 17th (Friday).

BNP Paribas Asset Management And Dynamic Credit Group Agree Partnership To Boost Private Debt Solutions

Date 15/09/2021

• BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) to acquire majority stake in Dynamic Credit Group (‘Dynamic Credit’), an Amsterdam-based asset manager and specialist lender with EUR 9 billion of assets under management.
• This deal will allow BNPP AM’s Private Debt & Real Assets investment division (‘PDRA’), currently managing EUR 11 billion of client commitments, to significantly grow its asset base, while providing Dynamic Credit with access to a large and global distribution network.