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RIA Portfolio Management And Reporting Systems - As Platform Functionality Becomes Commoditized, Vendors Will Build Out New Service Offerings To Grow Client Value, Finds The Latest Aite Group Report.

Date 04/08/2020

The landscape of RIA technology has become increasingly crowded, but the recent shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted advisors into a new understanding of the importance of efficient technology and digital client engagement. The technology is now evolving to address market dynamics, new challenges, and the needs of advisors’ end clients. Vendor platforms have a primary focus on portfolio management and reporting, but data consolidation, business intelligence, and new RIA service models have also emerged as keys to an evolving value proposition. A new Aite Group report, Aite Matrix: RIA Portfolio Management and Reporting Systems, examines the market for RIA portfolio management and reporting systems.

Shares Of “Bank Center Credit” Are Listed And Admitted To Trading On AIX

Date 04/08/2020

Astana International Exchange (“AIX”, “Exchange”) is pleased to announce that the shares of the “Bank Center Credit” JSC (“BCC”), one of the largest private banks in Kazakhstan, have been listed and admitted to trading on AIX. The Bank became the first Issuer listed on AIX based on the recently introduced Regional Equity Market Segment (REMS), which is aimed at enabling access of mid-cap companies to a broader investor base and to the equity capital market. 

DCspine Network PoP Now Available In Flagship Data Center Greenhouse Datacenters In The Netherlands

Date 04/08/2020

Greenhouse Datacenters, a colocation data center developer/operator from the Rotterdam/The Hague region in the Netherlands, has expanded its collaboration with DCspine by announcing that DCspine’s network Point-of-Presence (PoP) is now also available in Greenhouse Datacenters flagship facility. The network PoP enables colocation customers in Greenhouse DC 2 to make on-demand connections with more than 70 data centers in the Netherlands and Belgium, 30 of which are in the Amsterdam region.
 

COVID-19: African Union And APO Group In Partnership To Reach More African News Media, As The Union Works To Prevent Deaths, Save Lives And Prevent Unnecessary Harm To African Economies - This Support By The APO Group Will Complement The Weekly Press Briefings That The Africa CDC Has Been Holding Every Thursday Since March 2020

Date 04/08/2020

The African Union's Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (www.AfricaCDC.org) is joining forces with the APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading pan-African communications and business consultancy, to organise regular online press conferences once every month, to provide Africans with vital information on the continental preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as per the mandate given to the Africa CDC by all 55 African Heads of State and Government. This support by the APO Group will complement the weekly press briefings that the Africa CDC has been holding every Thursday since March 2020.

EEX And EPEX SPOT Response To The European Commission’s REMIT Fee Design & Implementation Consultation

Date 04/08/2020

EEX and EPEX SPOT jointly responded to the public consultation of the European Commission on fees due to ACER for tasks under REMIT. ACER should be given the proper resources to carry out its REMIT activities to ensure a high level of integrity and transparency of wholesale energy markets in Europe. A fee paid by the market itself should however be carefully designed. For this purpose, in our response, we highlight the most important principles to consider in the final fee design in order not to endanger market integrity, liquidity or transparency.

UK Financial Conduct Authority: Data Provision Under The Civil Liability Act 2018

Date 04/08/2020

Euronext Completes The Acquisition Of VP Securities

Date 04/08/2020

Euronext, the leading pan-European market infrastructure, announces today that it has completed the settlement of shares under its offer launched on 23 April 2020 to acquire 100% of VP Securities, the Danish Central Securities Depository. Euronext will now fully consolidate VP Securities’ accounts in its financial statements. 

EEX Response To European Commission’s Public Consultation On A Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy

Date 04/08/2020

EEX responded to the public consultation of the European Commission on it’s Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy. EEX strongly supports the European Commission’s sustainable finance agenda. As the European Union moves towards climate neutrality, both the financial sector and real economy will undergo significant transformations. To scale up private investments in support of a sustainable recovery and the European Green Deal, long term visibility and predictability are essential.

Shanghai International Energy Exchange Has Released Its Circular On The Approval Of Huatai (Hong Kong) Futures Limited As Overseas Special Brokerage Participant

Date 04/08/2020

Shanghai International Energy Exchange has released its Circular on the Approval of Huatai (Hong Kong) Futures Limited as Overseas Special Brokerage Participant as follows:

Upon deliberation of the Board of Directors, and in accordance with the Overseas Special Participants Management Rules of the Shanghai International Energy Exchange and relevant provisions, Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) hereby approves Huatai (Hong Kong) Futures Limited to be the Overseas Special Brokerage Participant of INE.

Investor Activity On GPW Group Markets – July 2020

Date 04/08/2020

• GPW Main Market Electronic Order Book equities turnover value increased by 40.6% YoY to PLN 23.4 billion
• NewConnect Electronic Order Book turnover value increased by 2,471.6% YoY to PLN 2,277.9 million
• Derivatives turnover volume increased by 20.4% YoY to 618,600 contracts
• Structured products turnover value increased by 98.7% YoY to PLN 234.5 million
• ETF turnover value increased by 249.2% YoY to PLN 40.4 million
  • Catalyst Electronic Order Book non-Treasury bond turnover value increased by 14.8% to PLN 272.3 million
  • Electricity turnover volume increased by 9.9% to 19.0 TWh
  • Natural gas turnover volume decreased by 1.0% YoY to 12.7 TWh