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Chainalysis Expands Series B To $49M With Investment From Ribbit Capital And Sound Ventures - Company Doubles Down On Public Sector Growth - Ribbit’s Sigal Mandelker Joins As Advisor

Date 07/07/2020

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, today announced it raised an additional $13M to expand its Series B round to $49M with an investment from Ribbit Capital and Sound Ventures. With the funds, which follows a $36M raise from Accel, Benchmark, MUFG and Sozo Ventures last year, Chainalysis will grow and deepen its government relationships and further unite the public and private sectors to fuel the cryptocurrency industry’s growth through the addition of software engineers, government sales, and other business roles. Sigal Mandelker, General Partner at Ribbit Capital and former Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will join as an advisor to Chainalysis.

Refinitiv Debuts Fund ESG Scores To Facilitate Industry Transition To Sustainable Investing - Investment Managers And Financial Advisors To Benefit From Refinitiv Lipper Fund ESG Scores – A Transparent And Objective Measure Of ESG Performance – Available On Refinitiv Workspace, Eikon Or API Feed.

Date 07/07/2020

Building on its commitment to connect and advance the global financial community through data and analytics, Refinitiv today announced Lipper Fund ESG Scores to serve as a pivotal data-metric in the transition to sustainable investing – providing comparisons at the fund level for fund managers, advisors and investors.

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security RU000A0JW6P7

Date 07/07/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 07.07.2020, 16-26 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 138.58) and initial margins (up to 21.25 %) for the security RU000A0JW6P7 were changed. New values are available here

Oslo Børs: ayfie Group Admitted To Trading

Date 07/07/2020

The IT company ayfie Group has today been admitted to trading on Merkur Market. This July is likely to become the busiest July ever in terms of companies being admitted to listing or trading.

Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer: Farmer Sentiment Rebounds Amidst Ongoing COVID-19 Concerns

Date 07/07/2020

Farmer sentiment improved in June for the second month in a row, rebounding from sharp declines that took place in both March and April, according to the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. The index was up 14 points from May to a reading of 117. The Ag Economy Barometer is based on responses from 400 U.S. agricultural producers with this month's survey conducted from June 22-26, 2020.

TNS Adds CBOE Europe To Extensive Market Data Roster

Date 07/07/2020

Transaction Network Services (TNS) has signed a new agreement with Cboe Europe, one of the largest pan-European equities stock exchange operators by value-traded, to become a registered vendor for its European equities market data.

LiquidityBook Hires Chris Junge To Lead Client Support Team

Date 07/07/2020

LiquidityBook, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, today announced the hire of Chris Junge as Vice President of Customer Success.

Financial Services Firms Accelerating Technology Transformation To Navigate The Pandemic, New Broadridge Study Finds - 38% Of Financial Services Executives Expect The Business Recovery From COVID-19 To Take One- To -Two Years

Date 07/07/2020

More than half of financial services companies plan to accelerate implementation of their next generation technology strategies, according to a new global survey of 500 financial services C-Suite executives and their direct reports released today by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global fintech leader.

Trading Technologies Contracts With BGC Partners For Global Implementation Of TT® OMS

Date 07/07/2020

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, today announced they have signed up BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) (BGC), a leading global brokerage and financial technology company, to utilize TT’s new Order Management System (OMS) solution when it is launched in September 2020. The arrangement will extend BGC’s usage of the TT execution management system (EMS) and for the first time make TT’s full-featured, full-service OMS product available to all BGC brokers worldwide. As a result, BGC’s brokers will use all the TT OMS advanced order handling and post-trade allocation features to optimize their order executions and reporting.

HKEX Monthly Market Highlights

Date 07/07/2020

Highlights

- Securities Market

• Market capitalisation was $37.9 trillion at the end of June 2020, an increase of 11 per cent from $34.0 trillion at the end of May 2020, and an increase of 16 per cent from $32.7 trillion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover in June 2020 was $125.6 billion, an increase of 10 per cent when compared with $114.7 billion in May 2020, and an increase of 52 per cent from $82.4 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover for the first six months of 2020 was $117.5 billion, an increase of 20 per cent when compared with $97.9 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first six months of 2020 was $9.6 billion, an increase of 4 per cent when compared with $9.2 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first six months of 2020 was $5.3 billion, an increase of 8 per cent when compared with $4.9 billion for the same period last year.
• Funds raised through IPOs for the first six months of 2020 was $87.5 billion, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with $71.8 billion for the same period last year.
• Total funds raised for the first six months of 2020 was $225.8 billion, an increase of 51 per cent when compared with $149.2 billion for the same period last year.