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ESMA Publishes Its First Review Reports On The MiFIR Transparency Regime

Date 16/07/2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published today two final Reports reviewing key provisions of the MiFID II/MiFIR transparency regime.

ACER Publishes Three Decisions Harmonising The EU Balancing Market For Electricity

Date 16/07/2020

The European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) publishes today three decisions in line with the EU Regulation establishing a Guideline on Electricity Balancing, harmonising the imbalance settlement and fostering a single EU balancing market.

Tradeweb Markets And ICE Benchmark Administration Introduce Tradeweb ICE CMT Rates For Review And Comment By Market Participants

Date 16/07/2020

Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW), a leading global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, and Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, announce that Tradeweb and ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA) have published a paper introducing daily Tradeweb ICE Constant Maturity Treasury Rates (Tradeweb ICE CMT Rates) for review and comment by market participants.

Update From The US Office Of Financial Research: “Basis Trades And Treasury Market Illiquidity”

Date 16/07/2020

Today, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) published a brief entitled “Basis Trades and Treasury Market Illiquidity.”

Moscow Exchange: REPO Risk Parameters Change For The Security AFKS

Date 16/07/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 16.07.2020, 15-49 (MSK) the lower bound of the REPO rate for tenor Y0/Y1Dt (up to -85.71 %), penalty rate and IR Risk Rate (up to -0.0466 rub) for the security AFKS were changed. New values are available here

Euronext Receives Clearance From The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority To Acquire Up To 100% Of VP Securities, The Danish Central Securities Depository

Date 16/07/2020

Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange, today announces it has received the clearance from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority to acquire up to 100% of VP Securities A/S1 (“VP Securities”) on 15 July 2020. Euronext welcomes this regulatory approval by the Danish FSA that was the only condition to complete the transaction.

ECB Monetary Policy Decisions

Date 16/07/2020

At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB took the following monetary policy decisions:

(1) The interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50% respectively. The Governing Council expects the key ECB interest rates to remain at their present or lower levels until it has seen the inflation outlook robustly converge to a level sufficiently close to, but below, 2% within its projection horizon, and such convergence has been consistently reflected in underlying inflation dynamics.

Bank Of England: Learning About Money And Financial Literacy Needs Jokes And Games Say Children

Date 16/07/2020

Only a quarter of children in the UK enjoy learning about money at school, according to a new survey.

Diginex Strengthens Partnership With Itiviti And Leverages Tbricks Automation Platform For Institutional Cryptocurrency Clients

Date 16/07/2020

Itiviti, a leading technology, and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, today announced Diginex, a digital asset financial services and advisory company, will implement Tbricks automated solution to provide risk, P&L and portfolio management to its institutional client base. This partnership follows on from the existing relationship that sees Diginex utilize NYFIX, Itiviti’s global FIX-based order routing network to provide connectivity to its institutional investors who wish to have digital asset’s exposure in their portfolios.

HKEX Announces Senior Listing Division Appointments

Date 16/07/2020

• Janice Wu appointed Co-Head of IPO Vetting
• Karen Lok appointed Head of Listing Compliance