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BOX Options Market Reminder: SOLA® TCP Unicast High Speed Vendor Feed (“HSVF”) Decommission

Date 03/05/2021

BOX Options Market LLC (“BOX”) previously distributed IC-2021-02 to announce the decommissioning of the SOLA® TCP Unicast High Speed Vendor Feed (“HSVF”).

Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Issues Best Practice Guidance For Prospectus Filings

Date 03/05/2021

The Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) has seen a significant number of confidential prospectus pre-files submitted in recent months and is providing best practice guidance to issuers to assist in their capital raising efforts.

Federal Reserve: The April 2021 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey On Bank Lending Practices

Date 03/05/2021

The April 2021 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the standards and terms on, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months, which generally correspond to the first quarter of 2021.

Dubai Financial Market Company Posts Net Profit Of AED 23.4 Million During The First Quarter Of 2021

Date 03/05/2021

H.E. Essa Kazim underscores key developments of the quarter: 

• Trading value increased 8.3% to AED 15.4 Billion
• The DFM attracted 848 new investors, including 134 institutions
• Foreign investors accounted for 46% of trading value and 18.3% of market capitalization
• Foreign investors’ net purchases reached to AED 160.5 Million
• Products diversification strategy gains momentum with trading of equity futures, REITs and EFTs… new asset classes to follow
• Issuance of the “Free Zone Companies Listing Regulations” and the “Stabilization Mechanism Regime”

The European Banking Authority Publishes Report On Mystery Shopping Activities Of National Authorities

Date 03/05/2021

• This publication is the EBA’s first step in the fulfilment of its new coordination mandate on mystery shopping activities of National Competent Authorities (NCAs);
• It summarises the most common approaches taken by NCAs on mystery shopping, presents some lessons learned, and identifies good practices;
• Mystery shopping allows NCAs to obtain greater insight into the conduct of financial institutions. The latter are then encouraged to take corrective actions and to better comply with applicable requirements, thus eventually enhancing the protection of consumers.

Jessica Wachter Named SEC Chief Economist And Director Of The Division Of Economic And Risk Analysis

Date 03/05/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Jessica Wachter has been appointed Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA). Wachter joins the SEC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where she has been a professor since 2003.

SIX Trading Key Figures: April 2021

Date 03/05/2021

In April 2021 trading turnover on the Swiss Stock Exchange reached CHF 109.8 billion, 20.6% less than in the previous month, while the number of transactions decreased by 19.4% to a total of 5,148,483. Since the beginning of 2021, trading turnover reached CHF 486.8 billion with a total of 24,313,936 transactions. The SMI® fell by 0.2% and reached 11,022.3 points at the end of the month.

BETTER FINANCE: Empower The New Generations Of EU Citizens As Pension Savers To Engage Corporations Into A Sustainable Corporate Governance

Date 03/05/2021

BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the goals of the new initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance launched by the European Commission in order to reconcile economic growth, social progress, corporate governance and environmental protection, which is a vital and very urgent necessity. But it has to be based on the right assumptions: 

FEAS Exchanges Factsheet Q1 2021

Date 03/05/2021

FEAS Exchanges Factsheet Q1 2021 is published. 

MIAX Exchange Group - Options Markets - Reminder: 1G LL Shared Extranet Switch Infrastructure Upgrade

Date 03/05/2021

As previously announced in the February 17, 2021 Alert, MIAX Options, MIAX Pearl Options and MIAX Emerald Options Exchanges will upgrade the 1G Low Latency (LL) shared extranet switch infrastructure in July, 2021.  All existing 1G LL cross connects must be migrated to the upgraded 1G LL shared extranet switch infrastructure.