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UK Financial Conduct Authority: Information For Firms Who Use Certain Exemptions To The Financial Promotions Order

Date 21/07/2021

Following onshoring changes made to The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the FPO), the definition of Relevant Market inadvertently no longer includes relevant UK markets.

Bursa Malaysia Seeks Public Feedback On Director Appointment And Independence To Improve Board Quality And Promote Greater Transparency

Date 21/07/2021

Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or the “Exchange”) today issued a consultation paper seeking public feedback on the proposed amendments to the Main Market and ACE Market Listing Requirements (collectively “Listing Requirements”) in relation to director appointment and independence.

Umbria DeFi Protocol Releases Exceptional Results For Cross-Chain Transfer Of USDT - High Speed And Low Cost For Moving Crypto Assets Between Networks -

Date 21/07/2021

The testing of Umbria Network’s cross-chain Narni bridge is in its final stages.

Pandemic Leaves Its Mark As 55% Of Women Finance Workers Have Suffered Stress In The Last Year, Says CISI

Date 21/07/2021

The CISI’s latest annual member survey has shown that 55% of its women members surveyed have suffered from stress, anxiety or depression in the last year.

Soldo, The Leading European Pay And Spend Automation Fintech Closes Record $180m Series C Funding Round Led By Temasek

Date 21/07/2021

• Series C investment to accelerate international expansion and product development
• The investment round is the largest to date in the spend management category
• The Series C funding will be used to accelerate international expansion and product development

CLS Completes Migration Of Its Settlement Service To New State-Of-The-Art Technology Platform

Date 21/07/2021

CLS, a financial market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions across the global FX ecosystem, announced that it completed Convergence, a significant phase of its multi-year technology investment program, to deliver one of the most sophisticated, resilient, scalable and flexible post-trade technology platforms across global financial market infrastructures (FMIs).

CSOP Expands Thematic Offering And Issues Healthcare-Based ETF Tracking Greater China Companies Disrupting Traditional Healthcare Businesses

Date 21/07/2021

The COVID-19 pandemic required businesses to innovate on short notice, catalyzing business transformations in the entire global healthcare ecosystem. The strain on healthcare providers’ infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain management exposed inefficiencies, which are valeted by new companies disrupting traditional healthcare systems. Especially Chinese companies yield an advantage, as a recent report stated enhanced policy support from the Chinese government and domestic talent from returning students who studied abroad as one of the main drivers of Chinese companies’ innovation capacity[1]. Hong Kong’s major ETF issuer CSOP pools the opportunity in performance of innovative healthcare pioneers in one new ETF, the CSOP China Healthcare Disruption Index ETF (3174.HK). The ETF tracks the Solactive China Healthcare Disruption Index.

ESG Assets Rising To $50 Trillion Will Reshape $140.5 Trillion Of Global AUM By 2025, Finds Bloomberg Intelligence - BI Expects ESG ETFs To Reach $1 Trillion And ESG Debt $11 Trillion By 2025

Date 21/07/2021

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assets are on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third of the projected $140.5 trillion in total global assets under management, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s (BI) latest ESG 2021 Midyear Outlook report.

Arcadier And Exberry Partner To Deliver Deep-Tech Trading Infrastructure For Marketplaces - Exberry Provides Its Robust Infrastructure To Enhance User Capabilities And Price Discovery For Arcadier’s Marketplace Builder Platform

Date 21/07/2021

Exberry, the marketplace and exchange technology pioneer, has partnered with Arcadier, the world’s fastest-growing marketplace builder company, to provide technology for the next generation of marketplaces. 

Japan's Financial Services Agency: Publication Of The "Social Bond Guidelines (Draft)" – Open For Public Comments

Date 21/07/2021

The Financial Services Agency has published a draft version of the “Social Bond Guidelines” based on the discussions at the Working Group on Social Bonds. Please refer to the link below for the full text of the Guidelines (Draft) in PDF format.