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Cloud Innovation Gains 5 Award Shortlists This Year For Velocimetrics

Date 05/03/2020

Velocimetrics’ new product, stream2Cloud, has had an unprecedented level of success since its launch in early January, now securing a further four shortlists. Having been shortlisted by FStech awards in January, stream2Cloud has now been shortlisted in the National Technology Awards and the European IT and Software Excellence Awards for ‘Cloud Innovation’ and ‘Enterprise (Cloud) Solution’ of the year, respectively. stream2Cloud also received a further two nominations from the Network Computing Awards for ‘Cloud-Based Solution of the Year’ and ‘New Cloud Solution of the Year’.

Vienna Stock Exchange: Changes In The Indices CECE, EETX And NTX, RDX Remains Unchanged

Date 05/03/2020

The composition of the indices calculated by the Vienna Stock Exchange for Central and Eastern Europe and Russia was reviewed as planned. In accordance with the rules and regulations the following changes will be made to the indices CECE, EETX, NTX. The composition of the RDX remains unchanged. The new index composition will take effect on Monday, 23 March 2020.

HKEX Monthly Market Highlights

Date 05/03/2020

Highlights

- Securities Market

• Market capitalisation was $36.2 trillion at the end of February 2020, an increase of 10 per cent from $33.0 trillion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover in February 2020 was $115.1 billion an increase of 9 per cent from $105.7 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover for the first two months of 2020 was $109.5 billion, an increase of 14 per cent when compared with $95.9 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first two months of 2020 was $6.3 billion, an increase of 70 per cent when compared with $3.7 billion for the same period last year.
• There were 24* newly listed companies for the first two months of 2020, no change when compared with 24* for the same period last year.
• Total funds raised for the first two months of 2020 was $61.9 billion, an increase of 170 per cent when compared with $22.9 billion for the same period last year.

RegTech – Evidology Shortlisted For National Technology Award

Date 05/03/2020

Regulatory technology innovator, Evidology Systems, has been shortlisted for RegTech Project of the Year by National Technology News. The shortlisting recognises Evidology’s new QED platform for uniquely combining real-time specialist legal opinion with principles-based regulations within advanced compliance software. Seen as a true second-generation solution, QED (Quality and Evidence Driven) is the only platform simplifying and optimising the process of demonstrating compliance to a regulation or conformance to a standard. This unique, visual system utilises current legal opinion to allow organisations of any size to demonstrate compliance at all times with complex regulations, including GDPR, FRTB, SMCR, ISO 27001 and PSD2.

Bank Of England: Inflation And Beliefs About Inflation - Speech By Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor Monetary Policy, Given At The London Business School

Date 05/03/2020

Ben Broadbent looks at the history of inflation. In particular, he considers what it might teach us about how inflation is determined, and the risks of underplaying the role of monetary policy in that process.

FIS Enables Secure Seamless Online Payments With New Worldpay 3DS Flex Solution

Date 05/03/2020

MOEX Rings The Bell For Gender Equality

Date 05/03/2020

On 5 March 2020, Moscow Exchange opened the trading day by holding a Ring the Bell for Gender Equality ceremony in support of gender equality and the empowerment of women in business, politics and the economy.

SGX Welcomes Memiontec Holdings Ltd. To Catalist

Date 05/03/2020

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Memiontec Holdings Ltd. to its Catalist under the stock code “SYM”.

HPS Introduces QR-Based National Payment System To Saudi Arabia - This Initiative Is Part Of The Company’s Joint Partnership With Saudi Payments To Enhance The Electronic Payment Proliferation The Kingdom

Date 05/03/2020

To enhance the electronic payment sector throughout Saudi Arabia and reduce the dependence on cash, HPS has been appointed by Saudi Payments, a fully owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority (SAMA), to provide a unified QR code platform to enable banks, wallet providers and FINTECHs to interact seamlessly within an interoperable platform. This initiative is based on the joint partnership between the two parties, and it aims to support the continuous development of the electronic payments environment in the Kingdom.

Reply To Singapore Parliamentary Question On Green Bond Grant Scheme

Date 05/03/2020

Date: For Parliament Sitting on 5 March 2020

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang, MP, Nee Soon GRC

Question:

To ask the Prime Minister whether there are plans to expand the Green Bond Grant Scheme with stricter regulations to ensure the adherence to the Scheme's definition of eligible expenses 

Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of MAS:

The MAS’ Green Bond Grant Scheme was launched three years ago to catalyse the green bond market in Singapore. To-date, more than SGD6.5 billion of green bonds have been issued in Singapore.