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Press Conference By ASO Taro, Japan's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Of Finance, And Minister Of State For Financial Services: Financial Market Entry Office

Date 23/06/2021

As part of the initiative to make Japan an international financial hub, the FSA established the "Financial Market Entry Office" in the FSA building this January to handle all procedures in English for registration, etc. for foreign asset management companies newly entering the Japanese market as a single point of contact. Today, the FSA relocated this office to the seventh floor of FinGATE TERRACE located in Kabutocho, Nihonbashi, which must be highly convenient for financial businesses, with the aim of facilitating closer communication with them. The FSA will continue taking various other measures and make further efforts for Japan to achieve the status of an international financial hub open to the world.

Tradeweb Announces Expected Closing Date For Acquisition Of Nasdaq Fixed Income

Date 22/06/2021

Tradeweb Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: TW), a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, today announced that all required regulatory and self-regulatory approvals have been obtained for the company’s previously announced acquisition of Nasdaq Fixed Income, Nasdaq’s U.S. fixed income electronic trading platform.

Nasdaq Announces Expected Closing Date For Sale Of U.S. Fixed Income Business To Tradeweb Markets

Date 22/06/2021

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced today that all required regulatory and self-regulatory approvals have been obtained for the previously announced sale of its U.S. fixed income business, Nasdaq Fixed Income (NFI), to Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW), a leading global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets.

Consolidated Audit Trail - Bifurcated Cost Allocation Is Inequitable, By Kelvin To, Founder And President At Data Boiler Technologies

Date 22/06/2021

Regarding the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT)’s funding model, both the original and the revised proposal are like the Financial Transaction Tax. The plan is simply tolling everyone in the industry, which will ultimately be passed-down to the end-investors. We question why the CAT operating committee, a CAT governing body composed of ONLY representatives of the SROs, would hold concentrated power on the Funding Authority as set out in the CAT NMS Plan Exhibit A Article XI §11.1?  

CFTC Staff Issues Advisory To Swap Dealers Regarding The Use Of Internal Models In Calculating Minimum Capital Requirements

Date 22/06/2021

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division (MPD) today issued an advisory to swap dealers clarifying the use of internal models in calculating minimum capital requirements.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Productive Finance Working Group - May 2021 - The Second Meeting Of The Steering Committee

Date 22/06/2021

Agenda

1. Reminder of competition law obligations by Simmons & Simmons
2. Chairs’ opening remarks
3. An update from the Technical Expert Group
4. Discussion
5. Chairs’ closing remarks

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities - Update

Date 22/06/2021

The following risk parameters will be changed:

Transition SPAC Lists On Euronext Paris

Date 22/06/2021

• €215 million raised
• 8th SPAC listing on Euronext’s markets in 2021
• 1st listing of a French and European SPAC dedicated to the energy transition

Ontario Securities Commission; Former Officers And Directors Of CannTrust Charged With Securities Act Offences

Date 22/06/2021

Following a joint investigation by the OSC and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Integrated Market Enforcement Team (IMET), three former directors and officers at CannTrust Holdings Inc. (CannTrust) have been charged with offences under the Securities Act (Ontario).

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities

Date 22/06/2021

The following risk parameters will be changed: