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Statement On OCA’s Focus On High-Quality Financial Reporting During An Unusual Year And A Discussion Of Our Upcoming Priorities, Sagar Teotia, SEC Chief Accountant, Washington D.C., Dec. 7, 2020

Date 07/12/2020

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GPW Benchmark Announces Public Consultation For Changes In Methods Of Determination Of GPW Indices

Date 07/12/2020

• GPW Benchmark has launched public consultation on the GPW Indices’ method of determination.
• The proposed changes relate to the rules for developing the WIG20, mWIG40, sWIG80 and WIG30 Stock Exchange Indices.

Federal Reserve Board Announces Annual Indexing Of Reserve Requirement Exemption Amount And Of Low Reserve Tranche For 2021

Date 07/12/2020

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the annual indexing of the reserve requirement exemption amount and the low reserve tranche. The annual indexation and publication of these amounts are required by statute but will not affect depository institutions' reserve requirements, which will remain zero.

Stanford University Economics Professor Susan Athey To Receive CME Group-MSRI Prize In Innovative Quantitative Applications - Panel Of Leading Economists To Discuss Intersection Of Markets And COVID-19

Date 07/12/2020

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), announced its 14th Innovative Quantitative Applications Prize recipient. Susan Athey, Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the 2019 CME Group-MSRI Prize winner for her work in the economics of digitization and marketplace design. A virtual event honoring Athey will be hosted by CME Group on Dec. 11, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. CT.

Vaccine News Spurs Valuations, Eclipsing Uncertain Outlook: BIS Quarterly Review

Date 07/12/2020

• Markets rebounded in November as positive vaccine news and the US election outcome boosted sentiment, although concerns about the daylight between valuations and the economic outlook persisted.
• Government bond yields stayed unusually low supported by accommodative monetary policy, sustaining a search-for-yield environment.
• The relative performance of EME currencies partly reflects the structure of production in the respective economies.

New Excess Collateral Pool At Eurex Benefits Clearing Members

Date 07/12/2020

• Eurex Clearing’s new functionality offers clients improvements in managing intraday margin calls

ESAs Highlight The Change In The Status Of Simple, Transparent And Standardised (STS) Securitisation Transactions At The End Of The UK Transition Period

Date 07/12/2020

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – ESMA, EBA and EIOPA – wish to highlight the impact in the change of status of ‘Simple, Transparent and Standardised’ (STS) securitisation transactions after the end of the Transition Period on 31 December 2020.

World Economic Forum Special Annual Meeting 2021 To Take Place In Singapore In May

Date 07/12/2020

The World Economic Forum will convene the Special Annual Meeting 2021 in Singapore from 13-16 May. It will return to Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, for the Annual Meeting 2022.

ESMA Publishes 2020 ESEF XBRL Taxonomy Files And ESEF Conformance Suite

Date 07/12/2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets regulator, has today published the 2020 ESEF XBRL taxonomy files and an update to the ESEF Conformance Suite to facilitate implementation of the ESEF Regulation.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security MAGN

Date 07/12/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 07.12.2020, 16-53 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 50.25) and initial margins (up to 21.25 %) for the security MAGN were changed. New values are available here