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GBG Predator With Machine Learning Simplifies And Improves Fraud Detection For Credit Card, Mobile, Digital Payments And Digital Banking Transactions

Date 27/05/2020

GBG (AIM:GBG), the global technology specialist in fraud and compliance management, identity verification and location data intelligence, today announced its expansion of AI and machine learning capabilities for its transaction and payment monitoring solution, Predator, making deep learning and predictive analytics available to their entire digital risk management customer journey. GBG first announced its machine learning capabilities for Instinct Hub, their digital onboarding fraud management system in January this year. The new AI capability additionally processes third party data -- device fingerprinting, geolocation, mobile and IP, endpoint threat intelligence, behavioral analytics -- assimilated into the GBG Digital Risk Management and Intelligence platform to enhance their model performance in fraud detection.

HKEX Signs Agreement With MSCI To Licence Indexes To Launch Asia And Emerging Markets Futures And Options Contracts

Date 26/05/2020

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is today pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited, has signed a major licensing agreement with MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of mission critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, to license a suite of MSCI indexes in Asia and Emerging Markets for the introduction of futures and options contracts in Hong Kong.

MSCI Signs License Agreement With HKEX To Launch Futures And Options On Suite Of Indexes In Asia And Emerging Markets

Date 26/05/2020

MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of mission critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”), to introduce 37 futures and options contracts in Hong Kong based on a suite of indexes in Asia and Emerging Markets.

Cboe Global Markets Plans To Reopen Chicago Trading Floor On Monday, June 8, 2020

Date 26/05/2020

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today announced it plans to reopen its Cboe Options Exchange (C1) trading floor in Chicago and resume trading operations on the floor in a modified manner on Monday, June 8, 2020.  

CME Group Chief Financial Officer And Global Head Of Financial And OTC Products To Present At Deutsche Bank Global Financial Services Virtual Conference

Date 26/05/2020

CME Group announced today that John Pietrowicz, Chief Financial Officer, and Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Financial and OTC Products, will present at the Deutsche Bank 10th Annual Global Financial Services Conference, which will be held virtually on Wednesday, May 27, at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

Nigerian Stock Exchange, International Finance Corporation Highlight Gender Implications Of COVID-19 In Inaugural Seminar Under The Nigeria2Equal Program

Date 26/05/2020

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (“NSE” or “The Exchange”) in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), have launched the Nigeria2Equal Programme with an inaugural seminar on Monday, 25 May 2020. The virtual seminar, themed, “Gender Implications of COVID-19: Supporting Women as Employees in the New Normal” highlighted the differential socioeconomic impacts the Coronavirus, COVID-19, will have on men and women, with women predicted to face more negative impacts.

SEC: Private Equity Firm Ares Management LLC Charged With Compliance Failures

Date 26/05/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Ares Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm and registered investment adviser, has agreed to pay one million dollars to settle charges that it failed to implement and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to prevent the misuse of material nonpublic information.

Deutsche Börse: Unscheduled Change In SDAX - Sixt Leasing SE To Be Deleted From Index, MLP SE To Be Added

Date 26/05/2020

On Tuesday, Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX index. 

ECB: Pandemic Increases Risks To Financial Stability

Date 26/05/2020

• Pandemic greatly amplified existing vulnerabilities of the financial sector, corporates and sovereigns
• Policy responses to pandemic essential to preserve financial stability
• Euro area banks, although now better capitalised, likely to face significant losses and further pressure on profitability

BIS Opens Mexico City Dealing Room For The Americas

Date 26/05/2020

• New trading facility is located at the BIS Representative Office for the Americas in Mexico City.
• It complements other BIS dealing rooms in Basel and Hong Kong SAR.
• BIS can now offer 24-hour services to its central bank customers.