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Deutsche Börse, Unscheduled Adjustment In SDAX

Date 28/10/2020

On Wednesday, Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX index.

Statement On Funds' Use Of Derivatives, SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw, Washington D.C., Oct. 28, 2020

Date 28/10/2020

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and my fellow commissioners.

In November of 2019, when the Commission proposed this derivatives rule, we had no idea how much the world would change in a few short months. This spring, we experienced historic economic turmoil, with more days of large market movements than we had experienced in decades, and significant dislocations in credit markets. The Federal Reserve Board and Congress undertook extraordinary interventions to ensure that credit markets did not collapse. While with the benefit of those interventions registered funds have seemingly weathered the storm so far, it is not because our existing framework adequately addressed the risks that funds can entail. Next time, it could turn out very differently – badly – because many registered funds’ reliance on derivatives and leverage to achieve their investment objectives could lead to disaster in times of prolonged or dramatic market stress.

CFTC Swaps Report Update

Date 28/10/2020

CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.

Canadian Securities Administrators 2020 Investor Index - Canadians’ Self-Reported Risk Tolerance Has Remained Relatively Unchanged Since 2017, Despite A Rapidly Changing Economic Environment In 2020

Date 28/10/2020

A survey conducted for the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) shows that 37 per cent of Canadian investors report being “very” or “fairly” aggressive in their investing risk tolerance in 2020, compared to 35 per cent in 2017.

Nadex Product Schedule For The Japan Holiday On November 3, 2020

Date 28/10/2020

Due to the Japan holiday on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, the Japan 225 contracts will have a modified trading schedule.

MIAX Options: New ISO PRIME Order Type

Date 28/10/2020

MIAX Options will implement a new ISO PRIME order type that allows a Member to submit a PRIME Order without regard for better priced Protected Bids or Protected Offers when the Member simultaneously routes ISOs to execute against the full displayed size of any better-priced Protected Bid or Protected Offer and sweeps all interest in the Exchange’s Book priced better than the proposed Auction starting price.

Quarterly Statement Q3/2020 - Deutsche Börse Group Further On Secular Growth Track In A Challenging Market Environment

Date 28/10/2020

Quarterly results at a glance compared to prior year

• Net revenue for the third quarter of 2020 went down by –4 per cent to €707.5 million, owing to significant cyclical headwind.
• Adjusted operating costs of €288.0 million showed a +5 per cent increase, exclusively due to consolidation effects.
• Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) thus decreased to €431.4 million; net profit attributable to Deutsche Börse AG shareholders amounted to €252.7 mil- lion and was thus down by –11 per cent for the period.
• Adjusted basic earnings per share amounted to €1.38, for an average of 183.4 million shares.
• Despite the weaker development in the third quarter, the Group’s guidance for 2020 remains unchanged at around €1.20 billion adjusted consolidated net profit. Amongst other factors this is subject to an increase of market activity in the fourth quarter

Nordic Prime Minister's Back Investment Mobilisation From Institutional Investors In Green Recovery And Climate Action

Date 28/10/2020

BIS: Have The Driving Forces Of Inflation Changed In Advanced And Emerging Market Economies?

Date 28/10/2020

Summary

Focus

Inflation has remained remarkably stable in many economies since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). The fact that inflation did not fall as much as might have been expected given the high degree of economic slack during the crisis or rise much in the recovery afterwards has raised questions about what contributed to the recent stability of inflation and whether the slope of the Phillips curve has flattened. This paper empirically investigates possible structural changes in the driving forces of inflation and their quantitative effects before, during and after the GFC for a number of advanced and emerging market economies.

Opening Statement On Use Of Derivatives By Registered Investment Companies And Business Development Companies, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, Oct. 28, 2020

Date 28/10/2020

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In 2015, when this rule was first proposed, someone could have designed a derivatives contract to shift the risk of the rule’s adoption: in exchange for periodic payments, the seller of derivatives rule protection would pay out big if the rule got adopted. The buyer of this protection would have made periodic payments over the years. The parties would have exchanged collateral during the course of the contract to reflect the changing likelihood that the rule would get adopted. There might have been a market for such a derivatives contract because, in the words of one commenter in response to the 2015 rule proposal: “The proposed rule would severely restrict investment companies’ use of derivatives and thereby limit investors’ investment opportunities while imposing significant new compliance and other obligations on the directors and risk managers of such funds.”  In hindsight, however, purchasers of such a derivatives contract could have done without it since today’s rule is a great improvement over its problematic 2015 forerunner.