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Oslo Børs: Delta – Optiq - Changed Ticker Codes / Mnemonics During The Migration

Date 26/11/2020

ESMA: INC Rating’s CRA Registration Withdrawn

Date 26/11/2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today withdrawn the credit rating agency (CRA) registration of INC Rating Sp. z o.o.

Finansinspektionen: Macro-Based Stress Test Of Swedish Banks: Results And Methodology, Autumn 2020

Date 26/11/2020

Finansinspektionen (FI) presents in this memorandum a stress test of the Swedish banks that we conducted in the autumn of 2020. The results indicate that the major banks have significant resilience to the credit losses that could arise and also a capacity to maintain the supply of credit.

BIS: What Share For Gold? On The Interaction Of Gold And Foreign Exchange Reserve Returns

Date 26/11/2020

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Gold investments still form a significant share of central banks and governments' FX reserve portfolios. We ask whether this high share is justified from a risk-return standpoint, while investigating the variety of factors that make this a difficult question.

Euroclear - Brexit - Irish Securities Settlement - Update

Date 26/11/2020

This communication provides the latest update in relation to Euroclear UK & Ireland’s (EUI’s) ability to continue to offer issuer CSD services from the expiry of the transition period (scheduled for 31 December 2020) in respect of:

• securities constituted under the law of Ireland (Irish Securities Settlement); and
• securities constituted under the laws of Cyprus, The Netherlands or Luxembourg, which are represented in the CREST system by way of registrar depository interests (DIs), where there is no other CSD in the holding chain (Relevant DI Settlement).

ETFGI Reports ETFs Listed In Canada Have Gathered A Record US$25.98 Billion In Year To Date Net Inflows As Of The End Of October 2020

Date 26/11/2020

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs and ETPs ecosystem, reported today that ETFs listed in Canada gathered net inflows of US$1.34 billion during October, bringing year-to-date net inflows to a record US$25.98 billion which is significantly above the 2019 YTD and full year 2019 inflows of US$14.16 billion and US$20.93 billion respectively.    During October, Canadian ETF assets decreased by 1.2%, from US$176.27 billion at the end of September to US$174.12 billion, according to ETFGI's October 2020 Canadian ETFs and ETPs industry landscape insights report, the monthly report which is part of an annual paid-for research subscription service. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

BIS: Basel Committee Amends Capital Requirements For Non-Performing Loan Securitisations

Date 26/11/2020

• Securitisations of non-performing loans to be subject to specific rules for calculation of capital requirements, to be implement by no later than 2023
• Proposal addresses a gap in the regulatory framework and was being developed before Covid-19
• Non-performing loan securitisation exposures will be subject to 100% risk weight or higher, except for positions risk-weighted using external ratings-based approach

ACER To Decide On The Definition Of Capacity Calculation Regions

Date 26/11/2020

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) have received all Transmission System Operators’ proposal for the definition of capacity calculation regions. The Agency must reach a Decision by 9th May 2021.

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Central Bank Of Iceland Launches With SIA The New Interbank Payment System - CBI Goes Live With A More Strategic And Modern Technology Infrastructure Developed By SIA Able To Process Up To 5 Million Daily Payments

Date 26/11/2020

The Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) and SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, have gone live with the new real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) and the new instant payment platform.

ACER Decides Methodology For Electricity Bidding Zone Review And Will Evaluate Alternative Configurations

Date 26/11/2020

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) published today a Decision on the methodology and assumptions to be used in the bidding zone review process and for the alternative bidding zone configurations to be considered, according to the EU Regulation on the internal market for electricity.