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Finansinspektionen: Increased Capital Requirements On Bank Loans For Commercial Real Estate

Date 28/01/2020

Finansinspektionen (FI) considers there to be elevated risks in the banks’ lending for commercial real estate. The banks should hold more capital for these exposures, which is why FI is raising the capital requirements.

SEC Names Ray McInerney As Freedom Of Information Act Officer

Date 28/01/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Ray McInerney has been named Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer in the agency’s Office of FOIA Services. This office promotes transparency in government by making SEC records available to the public and providing a timely and efficient response to each of the nearly 14,000 requests for SEC documents and records the agency receives each year.

Oslo Børs - Derivatives Clearing Migration - Technical User Group

Date 28/01/2020

Welcome to Oslo Børs Technical User Group – Derivatives Clearing Migration, in preparation for migrating clearing of derivatives to LCH SA. The derivatives clearing migration will happen when Oslo Børs' derivatives trading migrates to the Optiq® trading platform. This Technical User Group session will be particularly relevant for derivatives participants in the Oslo market which are currently not connected to LCH SA.

ACER Adopts Decisions Towards A Single EU Electricity Balancing Market

Date 28/01/2020

The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) published today three decisions on the framework for implementation of EU-wide trading platforms for electricity balancing, which will effectively integrate all national balancing markets into one single EU electricity balancing market.

Cloud9 and GreenKey Partner to Enable Next-Gen Voice Trading

Date 28/01/2020

Cloud9 Technologies (“Cloud9”), a leader in cloud-based communications, and GreenKey Technologies (“GK”), a leader in AI-powered conversational analytics, have teamed up to provide the institutional marketplace with an innovative solution that will enable a more efficient and secure extraction of voice trading data. The collaboration will leverage Cloud9’s C9 Trader voice collaboration platform and GreenKey’s speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) engine within IPC’s Connexus™ Cloud financial ecosystem.

Tehran Stock Exchange Weekly Market Review - 25 January 2020 To 28 January 2020

Date 28/01/2020

Click here to download Tehran Stock Exchange's weekly market review.

J.P. Morgan Successfully Joins Eurex GC Pooling As Pilot Client For Balance Sheet Netting

Date 28/01/2020

J.P. Morgan – one of the Eurex Partnership Program design partners and member of the new Repo Board Advisory Committee – has successfully completed onboarding for Eurex GC Pooling as a pilot client for balance sheet netting, a joint offering from Eurex Repo and Clearstream. This was a major step in rolling out additional balance sheet netting opportunities between the GC Pooling and Repo (GC & Special) market for Eurex Repo clients.

Refinitiv Pledges FX Brokerage To Support Australian Bushfire Relief Efforts - Refinitiv Brings Together The Global FX Community By Donating 100% Of Brokerage Fees From Global AUD Turnover For Three Full Trading Days To Bushfire Impacted Communities

Date 28/01/2020

Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, announced today they will donate 100% of brokerage fees from global AUD turnover for three full trading days from 9am Tuesday 4 February to 9am Friday 7 February (AEST) to a range of accredited Australian charities to support the volunteer firefighters and communities impacted by the recent bushfires.

VALK (Ex-Value On Chain) Partners With Archax To Facilitate End-To-End Digital Issuance And Listing Powered By Corda

Date 28/01/2020

This partnership sees two Corda clients join forces to enable financial institutions to issue and list digital assets on a UK-based exchange. The partnership will not only bring a liquidity venue and gateway to institutions working with VALK, but also provide Archax with a number of digital security offerings from the VALK ecosystem of established and regulated financial institutions.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Succeeds In Application To Upper Tribunal To Strike Out P.F. International’s Challenge To Regulatory Decision

Date 28/01/2020