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Market Commentary By Paolo Ardoino, CTO At Bitfinex On Bitcoin: "The Elegance And Technological Brilliance Represents A Very Different Model."

Date 06/01/2021

Commenting on Bitcoin achieving a new all-time high, Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex said:

Nasdaq Led All Exchanges In 2020 Equity Options Trading

Date 06/01/2021

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced today that 2020 was the first year it led all exchanges in total volume traded for equity options across all categories, including proprietary single-exchange-listed options products. It was also the 11th consecutive year Nasdaq led all exchanges in trading of multiple-listed equity options contracts.

Volante Technologies Hires Strategic Sales, Partnership And Marketing Leaders To Accelerate Global Payments As A Service Expansion

Date 06/01/2021

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, today announced an expansion of its go-to-market team with strategic senior hires across sales, partnerships, and marketing. This expansion follows Volante’s recent raise of $35m in growth capital from a consortium of investors led by Wavecrest Growth Partners, including BNY Mellon, Citi, Poste Italiane, and Visa Inc.

Xignite’s Market Data Management-as-a-Service Wins Best New Technology At 2020 American Financial Technology Awards

Date 06/01/2021

Xignite, Inc., a provider of cloud-based market data distribution and management solutions for financial services and technology companies, today announced that its Market Data Management-as-a-Service solution has been named “Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 months – Infrastructure” at the 2020 WatersTechnology American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs). Selected by the editors of WatersTechnology, the AFTAs recognize excellence in the deployment and management of financial technology within the asset management and investment banking communities.

Intercontinental Exchange Reports December, Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2020 Statistics

Date 06/01/2021

• Energy Open Interest +7% y/y
• 2020 Futures & Options ADV +6% y/y including Energy +15% y/y

The Performance Of Amman Stock Exchange During 2020

Date 06/01/2021

The Chief Executive officer of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), Mr. Mazen Wathaifi, said that the repercussions of the spread of the Coronavirus had a clear impact on the performance of the ASE and on the listed companies, like other Arab and International stock exchanges, which were affected in varying degrees. He also said that the repercussions of the spread of the virus, the closure of the economic sectors, and the procedures that were taken as a precautionary measures to limit the spread of the pandemic formed pressure on the world's economies and on companies’ activity, same situation for national economy and Jordanian companies. The trading value at the ASE decreased during 2020 reaching JD1.0 billion; a decrease of 33.9%, compared with JD1.6 billion for the year 2019. The number of traded shares reached 1.1 billion shares, traded through 421 thousand transactions, compared with 1.2 billion shares traded during 2019 through 503 thousand transactions.

ESMA Promotes Transparency For TLTRO III Transactions

Date 06/01/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, issues today a public statement promoting transparency in the IFRS financial statements of banks regarding accounting for the third series of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO III).

Archax Partners With MOSS To Expand ESG Program - Promotes Sustainable Exchange Model And Carbon Offsetting

Date 06/01/2021

Archax, the forthcoming FCA regulated digital securities exchange, has today announced a partnership with MOSS, a global leader in environmental programs, to promote both carbon offsetting to its issuers and a sustainable exchange operating model.

ESMA Launches A Common Supervisory Action With NCAs On The Supervision Of Costs And Fees Of UCITS

Date 06/01/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, is launching a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with national competent authorities (NCAs) on the supervision of costs and fees of UCITS across the European Union (EU). The CSA will be conducted during 2021.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security RU000A0ZYLQ4

Date 06/01/2021

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 06.01.2021, 14-23 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 120.68) and initial margins (up to 21.25 %) for the security RU000A0ZYLQ4 were changed. New values are available here