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Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters On Securities Market

Date 06/07/2021

CCP NCC will set the following risk parameters on Securities market starting from July 7, 2021:

TMX Group Limited Announces Release Date For Q2 2021 Financial Results And Analyst Conference Call

Date 06/07/2021

TMX Group Limited will announce its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021 in the evening of Wednesday, August 4, 2021. An analyst conference call to review the results will be held on Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. ET.

Endurance Motive To Start Trading On BME Growth On 8 July

Date 06/07/2021

• It is the sixth company to list on this BME Market in 2021
• It will have a value of 15.8 million euros on its market debut

BIS: Limits Of Stress-Test Based Bank Regulation

Date 06/07/2021

Summary

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How should supervisory risk assessments, such as stress tests, inform bank regulation when such assessments provide imprecise signals? What trade-offs do regulators face when redesigning assessments to improve accuracy? Does the disclosure of assessment results improve the effectiveness of capital requirements? We develop a theoretical framework to investigate these questions. A key element of our framework is the impact of assessment accuracy on the future behaviour of banks. This, in turn, is crucial for the design of risk assessments and for subsequent decision-making about capital requirements.

BME: The Value Of REITs Reaches 22.5 Billion Euros, 2% More Than In 2020 And 13% Less Than In 2019

Date 06/07/2021

• The dividend yield of these companies is around 3%, although shareholder remuneration fell last year from 1.2 billion to 707 million euros
• This new edition of the report addresses the challenge faced by the real estate sector to deal with sustainability

FTSE Russell Launch Suite Of Paris-Aligned Climate Benchmarks For Global Equity Markets

Date 06/07/2021

• FTSE Russell launches the ‘FTSE EU Climate Benchmarks Index Series’ a comprehensive range of climate-themed equity indexes aligned to the Paris Agreement
• FTSE Russell consulted Brunel Pension Partnership, a major asset owner with more than £35bn in assets under management, on the design of the FTSE Paris-aligned Benchmark range

June 2021 Monthly Figures At Eurex - OTC Clearing At Eurex Continues To Grow, With A Mixed Picture Across Other Segments

Date 06/07/2021

The OTC Clearing business at Eurex recorded a strong month in June, with total notional outstanding volumes growing 19 percent compared to the same month last year – up from 18,879 billion EUR to 22,485 billion EUR. Notional outstanding in Interest Rate Swaps grew 32 percent, to 10,062 billion EUR, crossing the 10 billion EUR threshold for the first time. While total average daily cleared volumes showed a modest drop across the same period – down 6 percent from 171 billion EUR to 161 billion EUR – average daily cleared volumes in Interest Rate Swaps grew by 60 percent, from 15 billion EUR to 24 billion EUR.

BIS: Basel Committee's Reforms Helped Cushion The Impact Of Covid-19 Shock On Banks

Date 06/07/2021

• New report gives a preliminary assessment of the impact of implemented Basel reforms during the pandemic as part of a broader evaluation of their effectiveness.
• Higher quality capital and liquidity levels required by the reforms helped banks absorb the significant impact of Covid-19 shock.
• The banking system would have faced greater stress during this period had the reforms not been adopted and implemented.

​New IPOs Continue To Create New Subsectors On Tel Aviv Stock Exchange - New Subsector Opened - “Retail"

Date 06/07/2021

TASE announces today the opening of a new subsector under the Commerce and Services Sector - “Retail".

European Commission Puts Forward New Strategy To Make The EU's Financial System More Sustainable And Proposes New European Green Bond Standard

Date 06/07/2021

The European Commission has today adopted a number of measures to increase its level of ambition on sustainable finance. First, the new Sustainable Finance Strategy sets out several initiatives to tackle climate change, and other environmental challenges, while increasing investment – and the inclusiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – in the EU's transition towards a sustainable economy. The European Green Bond Standard proposal, also adopted today, will create a high-quality voluntary standard for bonds financing sustainable investment. Finally, the Commission adopted today a Delegated Act on the information to be disclosed by financial and non-financial companies about how sustainable their activities are, based on Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy.