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CryptoCompare December Review - Surging Institutional Demand For BTC

Date 17/12/2020

Bitcoin continues to attract investors' attention as crypto volumes skyrocket to record highs. CryptoCompare's latest Exchange Review reported an incredible surge in trading activity: derivatives volume doubled to an all-time high of $1.32tn and spot volume increased by 60% to a monthly total of $906bn.
IMFC Selects Sweden’s Minister For Finance Magdalena Andersson As New Chair

Date 17/12/2020

The members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy advisory committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have selected Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Sweden’s Minister for Finance, as Chair of the Committee for a term of three years, effective January 18, 2021. Ms. Andersson succeeds Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, who has chaired the IMFC since January 18, 2018. She will be the first woman to hold the position.
Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Working Group On Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates - November 2020

Date 17/12/2020

The Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates, which is made up of experts from major sterling swap dealers, discusses the development of sterling risk-free reference rates.
Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Dawn D. Stump Before Global Markets Advisory Committee Meeting

Date 17/12/2020

Good morning and welcome to the final Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC or Committee) meeting of 2020.
Statement From Bank Of England Governor Andrew Bailey On Dame Elizabeth Gloster’s Report

Date 17/12/2020

The Bank of England has issued the following statement from Governor Andrew Bailey on Dame Elizabeth Gloster’s Report on the FCA’s supervision of London Capital & Finance (LC&F)

EBA Launches Consultation To Amend Standards On Benchmarking Of Internal Models

Date 17/12/2020

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper proposing to amend the EU Commission’s Implementing Regulation on the benchmarking of credit risk, market risk and IFRS9 models so as to include some new elements for the 2022 exercise. The EBA benchmarking exercise forms the basis for both supervisory assessment and horizontal analysis of internal models. It ensures consistent monitoring of the impact of the several different supervisory and regulatory measures aiming at the harmonising capital requirements in the EU.
Federal Reserve Board Announces New Members Of Community Advisory Council

Date 17/12/2020

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced five new members of its Community Advisory Council (CAC).
EBA Launches Consultation On Its New Guidelines On Remuneration Policies For Investment Firms

Date 17/12/2020

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultations on its new Guidelines on remuneration policies under the Investment Firms Directive (IFD). This guidance specifies the remuneration provisions that Class 2 investment firms should comply with, taking into account the proportionality principle. Sound remuneration policies ensure an alignment of the variable remuneration of identified staff with the risk profile of the investment firm and the assets it manages, and they must be gender neutral. The consultation runs until 17 March 2021.
LabCFTC Releases Digital Assets Primer

Date 17/12/2020

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today released a Digital Assets Primer to provide updated information to the public about emerging concepts in digital assets. The primer is part of a series issued by the CFTC’s innovation office, LabCFTC, and is the second to delve into issues surrounding digital assets.
EBA Publishes Final Draft Technical Standards On Capital Requirements Of Non-Modellable Risks Under The FRTB

Date 17/12/2020

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the capitalisation of non-modellable risk factors (NMRFs) for institutions using the FRTB Internal Model Approach (IMA) implemented in EU as a reporting requirement. These draft RTS are a key deliverables in the EBA’s work on implementing the FRTB in EU and part of its roadmap for the new market and counterparty credit risk approaches published on 27 June 2019.