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What Does The FinCEN File Leak Tell Us? Ted Sausen, Subject Matter Expert, NICE Actimize

Date 29/09/2020

On September 20, 2020, just four days after the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a much-anticipated Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the financial industry was shaken and their stock prices saw significant declines when the markets opened on Monday. So what caused this? Buzzfeed News in cooperation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released what is now being tagged the FinCEN files. These files and summarized reports describe over 200,000 transactions with a total over $2 trillion USD that has been reported to FinCEN as being suspicious in nature from the time periods 1999 to 2017. Buzzfeed obtained over 2,100 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and over 2,600 confidential documents financial institutions had filed with FinCEN over that span of time.

Bitfinex Derivatives Goes Live With Europe 50 & Germany 30 Perpertual Swaps, Roger Aitken Reports

Date 29/09/2020

Bitfinex Derivatives, a platform provided by iFinex Financial Technologies accessible through Bitfinex crypto and digital asset exchange, has gone live with trading perpertual swaps representing the ‘Europe 50’ and ‘Germany 30’ stock market indexes Perpetual Swaps. As highly leveraged products they are designed largely for high frequency trading (HFT) market participants.

Ljubljana Stock Exchange And Zagreb Stock Exchange To Prolong Cooperation With Vienna Stock Exchange

Date 29/09/2020

Ljubljana Stock Exchange and Zagreb Stock Exchange are continuing their technology cooperation with the Vienna Stock Exchange. The agreement covers the provision of trading system services, index calculation and market data distribution. All three exchanges have a rich and successful history of cooperation. Today, a dozen indices – including the national indices CROBEX and SBI TOP – as well as real-time market data from both stock markets can reach more than 15,000 financial professionals around the world. The Vienna Stock Exchange has been IT operator for the Ljubljana Stock Exchange since 2010 and for the Zagreb Stock Exchange since 2017.

Retirement Of Charles Li As Chief Executive And Appointment Of Calvin Tai As Interim Chief Executive

Date 29/09/2020

• Charles Li to step down as Chief Executive on 31 December 2020, but to remain as Senior Advisor to the Board
• Calvin Tai appointed as Interim Chief Executive, effective 1 January 2021
• Considerable progress made in search process for new HKEX Chief Executive

Bursa Malaysia's Website Access Restored To Normal

Date 29/09/2020

Bursa Malaysia would like to inform that access to our website (www.bursamalaysia.com) has been restored to normal after it was temporarily disrupted by a technical issue earlier this afternoon. 

UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Annual Report On The Regulatory Perimeter

Date 29/09/2020

The FCA has published its second annual perimeter report.

CCP12 Publishes Its First 2020 Newsletter

Date 29/09/2020

CCP12 has just published its first 2020 Newsletter.

ACER And The EFTA Surveillance Authority Increase Their Cooperation

Date 29/09/2020

The Agency and ESA - the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority, comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway - have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)  to put in place practical arrangements to ensure good cooperation between ESA and ACER in relation to the European electricity and natural gas markets.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security RU000A0JVFC6

Date 29/09/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 29.09.2020, 11-33 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 137.09) and initial margins (up to 50 %) for the security RU000A0JVFC6 were changed. New values are available here

Schroders Deploys SteelEye - Improving Control And Accuracy Of MiFIR Transaction Reporting

Date 29/09/2020

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has been selected by the world-class investment manager, Schroders.