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CME July Rates Recap Features Eris Growth

Date 09/07/2019

Nasdaq And LBMA Expand Access To Precious Metals Data - Daily Data Empowers Market Participants To Gauge The Precious Metals Market

Date 09/07/2019

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and LBMA today announced an expansion of data available to the precious metals market, providing greater transparency to this important industry. The LBMA-i Service has been expanded to include daily market information on platinum and palladium, joining existing daily data sets for gold and silver. All market participants now have access to data that provide comprehensive views of the precious metals market on a daily basis.

EBA Publishes Report On Progress Made On Its Roadmap To Repair IRB Models

Date 09/07/2019

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a progress report on the roadmap set out in 2016 to repair internal models used to calculate own funds requirements for credit risk under the Internal Ratings Based (IRB) approach. The roadmap aims to address the concerns about undue variability of own funds requirements and to restore trust in IRB models by ensuring comparability of the estimates of risk parameters, while retaining their risk sensitivity. This report marks the finalisation of the IRB regulatory review and provides clarity on the next steps.

Allison Herren Lee Sworn In As SEC Commissioner

Date 09/07/2019

Allison Herren Lee was sworn into office on July 8 as an SEC Commissioner.

UBS MTF Market Notice Double Volume Cap Update

Date 09/07/2019

Following the ESMA update published on 5 July, UBS MTF would like to inform you of upcoming double volume cap suspension changes this week.

ESAs Publish Recommendations On The Supervision Of Retail Financial Services Provided Across Borders

Date 09/07/2019

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) published today a Report on the cross-border supervision of retail financial services. In this report, the ESAs identified the main issues that national competent authorities (NCAs) face when supervising financial institutions that provide cross-border retail financial services within the EU and make recommendations to both NCAs and EU institutions on how to address them. In particular, the Report calls for more clarity on when activities carried out through digital means fall under passporting rules, and for considering the identified high-level principles on cooperation as the basis for any new legislation or possible amendment to current legislation.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Statement On Retirement Of Chief Justice Strine

Date 09/07/2019

Yesterday, Chief Justice Leo Strine announced his retirement after more than twenty years on the Delaware Court of Chancery and Supreme Court of Delaware, two of the most important courts for our markets and our investors.

Nigerian Stock Exchange Admits Airtel Africa Plc To Its Main Board

Date 09/07/2019

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (The Exchange or NSE) is pleased to announce the Cross Border Secondary Listing of 3,758,151,504 ordinary shares of Airtel Africa Plc on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. The shares were listed at an offer price of N363 per ordinary share on the Main Board of The Exchange and at 80 pence per ordinary share on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, the primary listing exchange.

Tradeweb: New Record Highs For ADV In June 2019

Date 09/07/2019

Average daily volume (ADV) across rates, credit, equities and money markets for Tradeweb Markets set a new record of $859.2 billion (bn) in June 2019, representing an increase of 45.8 percent (%) year over year (YoY). Average daily trades for the month totaled 53,998.

tZERO Partners With Atari Movie To Tokenize First Major Motion Picture - Leading Blockchain Innovator Announces It Will Work With The Atari Movie Producers To Tokenize The First Major Motion Picture

Date 09/07/2019

tZERO announced today that it has entered a partnership with the producers of the upcoming movie, “Atari: Fistful of Quarters,” to tokenize the first major theatrical motion picture. This will be the first time the film industry leverages the power of blockchain technology, marking yet another milestone towards tZERO’s goal to revolutionizing capital markets. tZERO will develop the Bushnell token, sold by the film production and financing company, Vision Tree.