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American Financial Exchange® Launches AMERIBOR® Term Structure Of Interest Rates Based On Overnight AMERIBOR Cash And Futures Prices

Date 22/06/2021

The American Financial Exchange (AFX), an electronic exchange for direct lending and borrowing for American banks and financial institutions, announces today the launch of the AMERIBOR® term structure of interest rates based on the overnight unsecured AMERIBOR cash rate and the implied rates from AMERIBOR futures contracts currently listed on the Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE).

State Street Leverages Machine Learning To Streamline Private Markets Processing And Document Management Through Partnership With Canoe Intelligence - Firm Continues To Invest In Advanced Technology Solutions To Extend Its Capabilities And Deliver Solutions To Meet Client Needs

Date 22/06/2021

State Street Corporation today announced it will implement a cloud-based, machine learning technology to transform private markets processing and document management. Through State Street’s partnership with Canoe Intelligence (“Canoe”), allocators and managers in the private markets sector will have an integrated experience where traditionally onerous and manual alternative investment workflows will be automated and streamlined, reducing processing time and delivering important information to clients sooner.

Opening Statements Of Nominees To The U.S. Department Of The Treasury Before The Senate Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs

Date 22/06/2021

On Tuesday, June 22, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing on the pending nominations of Brian E. Nelson to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Crimes and Elizabeth Rosenberg to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing. The opening statements of the nominees are below.  

Coinbase Verified Users Projected To Grow By 30% In 2021 To Hit Over 70 Million According To Finbold

Date 22/06/2021

Coinbase has continued to attract the attention of the crypto sector with moves like listing as a publicly traded company. Notably, the exchange's popularity is also reflecting in the future user base growth.

Bank Of England - Minutes Of The Productive Finance Working Group - April 2021: The Third Technical Expert Group (TEG) Meeting

Date 22/06/2021

Agenda

1. Competition law reminder by Simmons & Simmons LLP
2. Chair’s opening remarks
3. Presentations on and discussion of the draft Steering Committee (SC) paper
4. Next steps and closing remarks

The Federation Of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges Holds 32nd General Assembly Meeting And Governance Elections

Date 22/06/2021

Online Meeting 2021:  Today, the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) announces the 32nd Annual General Assembly meeting. 

Building A Regulatory Environment For The Future - Speech By UK Financial Conduct Authority CEO, Nikhil Rathi, Delivered At City Week 2021.

Date 22/06/2021

Highlights

• Leaving the EU allows us to tailor our rules to better suit our markets, while ensuring appropriate safeguards and upholding high standards.
• We will rigorously review all firms seeking UK authorisation.
• Our partnerships have never been so important, which is why we are working to deepen existing partnerships and forge new ones.
• We are proposing to extend our climate-related financial disclosure requirements to issuers of standard listed equity shares.
• We want views on selected ESG topics in UK capital markets and, separately, we are proposing new disclosure requirements for asset managers, life insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers.

VGI Partners Limited Selects Hazeltree To Modernize Treasury Infrastructure - Australia-Based Hedge Fund Manager Further Enhances Operational Controls And Drives Efficiencies With Hazeltree

Date 22/06/2021

Hazeltree, the leading provider of integrated treasury management and portfolio finance solutions for investment managers, today announced that Australia-based hedge fund manager, VGI Partners Limited (“VGI”) has selected Hazeltree’s cash and treasury management solution. Hazeltree further enhances VGI’s treasury processes by reducing its operational costs, improving margins through optimisation of liquidity, reducing its operational risks and supporting its continued growth with improved scaling.

BME Growth - Spain’s SME Exchange - Welcomes Parlem Telecom In Its Opening

Date 22/06/2021

• It is the 3rd company to ring the bell in this BME market so far this year
• The bell ringing will take place in the Barcelona stock exchange

Dr. Catherine L. Mann Appointed To The Bank Of England Monetary Policy Committee, And Professor Jonathan Haskel Reappointed

Date 22/06/2021

he Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced today, that he has appointed international economist Dr. Catherine L. Mann as an external member to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The Chancellor of the Exchequer also announced that he has re-appointed Professor Jonathan Haskel to the MPC.