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Russian Elites, Proxies, And Oligarchs Task Force Ministerial Joint Statement

Date 17/03/2022

Following the launch meeting of the Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) Task Force, the members from participating countries released the following joint statement

Readout: US Treasury Climate Counselor And SPEC Senior Advisor Discuss Collaboration To Accelerate Energy Transition

Date 17/03/2022

On Wednesday, March 16, Climate Counselor to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, John Morton, concluded a visit to Jakarta, Indonesia—the first of an eight-day, three-country trip to Asia to strengthen partnerships and bolster an expedited clean energy transition in the region. 

NGX, CFA Society Nigeria Collaborate To Build Capacity For Efficient Derivatives Market

Date 17/03/2022

Nigerian Exchange Limited (“NGX” or “The Exchange”) and CFA Society Nigeria are set to host a series of workshops and trainings aimed at building capacity of market participants and deepening liquidity for derivatives products in the Nigerian capital market. The first in the series of workshops, themed “Derivatives and the Nigerian Capital Market”, will hold on Wednesday, 23 March 2022 via Zoom.

Fiserv Wins 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Award For Delivering Access To Real-Time Payments Payments Exchange: RTP Enables Financial Institutions To Quickly And Efficiently Complete Real-Time Payments

Date 17/03/2022

FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market, today announced that Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, has been named winner of the Best B2B Payments Product in the sixth annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program. This is the fourth year in a row that Fiserv has had a solution recognized with a Breakthrough Award.

Nansen Adds Support For Terra (LUNA)

Date 17/03/2022

Nansen (https://www.nansen.ai/), the industry-leading blockchain data analytics platform, announced today the launch of a Terra ecosystem dashboard which will provide extensive insights to institutional and retail investors looking to invest in the stablecoin protocol. It will leverage on-chain data to ensure that investors are offered a trusted, single source of truth. 

Eurex Starts Trading Weekly KOSPI 200 Options On 28 March

Date 17/03/2022

• More flexibility for short-term exposure to the Korean market
• Only trading venue for KOSPI derivatives during European and U.S. trading hours
• KOSPI 200 Futures and Mini-Futures now tradable in the U.S.

Trading Platform inertiafinance.co: BaFin Investigates Inertia Finance

Date 17/03/2022

In accordance with section 37 (4) of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), BaFin would like to make clear that Inertia Finance has not been granted authorisation under the KWG to conduct banking business or provide financial services. The company is not supervised by BaFin.

Transcend Launches “Eligibility Central” To Help Clients Accelerate Critical Enterprise Collateral Strategies

Date 17/03/2022

Transcend, a leading provider of optimization solutions for funding, liquidity, and collateral has announced the launch of Eligibility Central, a unifying platform for collateral eligibility information and analytics. Transcend Eligibility Central empowers clients to accelerate critical collateral functionality such as optimization or mobilization.

ETFGI Reports ETFs Focused On ESG Strategies Listed Globally Gathered Net Inflows Of US$7.55 Billion During February 2022

Date 17/03/2022

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$7.55 billion during February, bringing year to date net inflows to US$17.35 Bn which is much lower than the US$40.51 Bn gathered at this point last year. Total assets invested in ESG ETFs and ETPs decreased by 0.05% from US$379.3 billion at the end of January 2022 to US$379.1 billion, according to ETFGI’s February 2022 ETF and ETP ESG industry landscape insights report, the monthly report which is part of an annual paid-for research subscription service.  (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.) 

Northern Trust And State Street Join AFME Board

Date 17/03/2022

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has announced that Northern Trust and State Street have joined the Association as Board members. They join 24 other leading European wholesale banking groups on AFME’s governing body.