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CalPERS Names Nicole Musicco New Chief Investment Officer

Date 22/02/2022

Completing an international search and extensive recruitment process, the California Public Employees’ Pension Retirement System (CalPERS) announced today the appointment of Nicole Musicco as its new chief investment officer. Musicco is only the second woman to lead the investment operations for the nation’s largest public pension fund with nearly $500 billion in assets.

FTSE UK Index Series – Indicative Quarterly Review Changes March 2022

Date 22/02/2022

FTSE Russell, the global index provider, advises of the following indicative changes to the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, based on data as at Friday 18 February 2022.

EBA Publishes Annual Assessment Of Banks’ Internal Approaches For The Calculation Of Capital Requirements

Date 22/02/2022

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Reports on the annual market and credit risk benchmarking exercises. These exercises aim at monitoring the consistency of risk weighted assets (RWAs) across all EU institutions authorised to use internal approaches for the calculation of capital requirements. Regarding market risk, for the majority of participating banks, the results confirm low dispersion in the initial market valuation (IMVs) and increased dispersion in the VaR submissions. For credit risk, the variability of RWA remained rather stable, despite the pandemic and banks’ efforts to re-develop or re-calibrate their models to comply with the policies set out in the EBA internal rating-based (IRB) roadmap.  A particular focus has been put on analysing the impact of the pandemic and the compensating public measures on the IRB models.

Updated: NGX Inducts 133 New Authorised Dealing Clerks

Date 22/02/2022

Nigerian Exchange Limited (“NGX” or “The Exchange”) inducted a total of 117 Authorised Dealing Clerks from 63 Trading License Holder today, 22 February 2022 charging them to uphold the highest level of ethics and responsibility.

ISDA Responds To Bank Of England And FCA On UK EMIR

Date 22/02/2022

On February 16, 2022, ISDA responded to the joint Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority consultation on changes to reporting requirements, procedures for data quality and registration of trade repositories under the UK implementation of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The consultation sets out proposals for aligning the UK’s derivatives reporting framework with international guidance from the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and International Organization of Securities Commissions. It also covers measures for mandatory delegated reporting requirements, counterparty notifications and reconciliations processes, and the use of XML schemas and global identifiers.

EBA Concludes Its Luanda Leaks Investigation And Points To Significant Differences In Competent Authorities’ Responses To Emerging Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing Risks

Date 22/02/2022

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the findings of its assessment of competent authorities’ responses to the 2020 Luanda leaks. The EBA found that competent authorities across the EU adopted significantly different approaches for identifying and tackling money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks highlighted by the leaks. These approaches varied beyond what the EBA would have expected under a risk-based approach.

Cboe Global Markets Promotes Greg Hoogasian To Executive Vice President, Chief Regulatory Officer

Date 22/02/2022

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today announced the promotion of Greg Hoogasian to Executive Vice President, Chief Regulatory Officer, and appointment to the company's executive leadership team.

Shocks, Uncertainty, And The Monetary Policy Response - Speech By Dave Ramsden, Bank Of England Deputy Governor, Markets And Banking, Given At The National Farmers’ Union Conference, Birmingham

Date 22/02/2022

Dave Ramsden talks about the impact of Covid, Brexit, and high energy prices on the UK economy. Then he sets out how monetary policy supports the economy to adjust to these shocks.

BIS: Original Sin Redux: A Model-Based Evaluation

Date 22/02/2022

Summary

Focus

Having developed and deepened their local currency sovereign bond markets, many EMEs can now routinely borrow from abroad in their own currency. However, overcoming "original sin" – the traditional necessity of borrowing in dollars or another foreign currency – has not led to "redemption". As foreign investors still play an important role in their local currency bond market, EMEs remain vulnerable to capital flow and exchange rate swings. And this gives rise to "original sin redux".

Statement On The FASB’s Agenda Consultation: Engagement With Investors And Other Stakeholders Vital To Development Of High Quality Accounting Standards, Paul Munter, SEC Acting Chief Accountant, Feb. 22, 2022

Date 22/02/2022

Introduction

In June 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) staff published an Invitation to Comment, Agenda Consultation (“ITC”), to solicit broad stakeholder feedback about the FASB’s standard-setting process and its future standard-setting agenda. In addition to feedback sought through the ITC, the development of the ITC itself involved significant outreach by the FASB staff and Board members to a cross-section of stakeholders, approximately one-third of whom were investors or other financial statement users.