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Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) An Active Contributor To New ISSA Paper On Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Crypto Assets - ADX Assessed To Play An Instrumental Role In Shaping The Future Of This New Asset Class For The Region

Date 18/11/2019

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has issued a paper ‘Crypto Assets: Moving from theory to practice’.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Issues Guidelines On Listed Companies’ Announcement Formats To Improve Information Disclosure Quality

Date 18/11/2019

Today, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) issued four sets of guidelines for the formats of interim announcements, which are respectively applicable to four matters drawing much attention in the market, including the entrusted wealth management, the abnormal fluctuations in stock trading, the shareholding lessening by major shareholders and directors, supervisors and executives, the profit distribution of the listed companies, and the capitalization from capital public reserve. Specifically, the three sets of guidelines for entrusted wealth management, the abnormal fluctuations in stock trading, and the shareholding lessening by major shareholders and directors, supervisors and executives are revised on the basis of the original guidelines implemented for years by considering the new rules for asset management, the fact that some companies are keen on wealth management, the new circumstances of abnormal fluctuations, the developments in shareholding lessening, etc. and summarizing the experience in the earlier routine regulation. At the same time, in order to more effectively guide the listed companies in accurately disclosing the plans for profit distribution and capitalization from capital public reserve, a new set of format guidelines have been developed.

Audit Quality Improves But Inconsistencies Persist - New Zealand Financial Markets Authority Report

Date 17/11/2019

Audit quality has broadly improved again but auditors continue to apply standards inconsistently, the FMA’s annual Audit Quality Report 2019 has found.

FSB MENA Group Discusses Regional Financial Stability, Stablecoins, Cyber Incidents And Implementation Of Financial Reforms

Date 17/11/2019

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group (RCG) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) met today in Riyadh at a meeting hosted by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority.

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary

Date 17/11/2019

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), celebrated its 19th anniversary. The past year has seen  many achievements, which has strengthened ADX’s position among the leading financial markets in the region and the world, moving up international best practices of disclosure and transparency.

Dubai Financial Market Achieves 97% Compliance In Listed Companies’ Disclosure Of Q3-2019 Results

Date 17/11/2019

Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today announced that its listed companies have recorded a 97% compliance regarding the disclosure of Q3-2019 results within the deadline of 45 days from the end of the period.

ISDA Publishes Results Of Consultation On Final Parameters For Benchmark Fallback Adjustments

Date 15/11/2019

ISDA has today published a report that summarizes responses to a consultation on the final parameters of adjustments that will apply to derivatives fallbacks for certain interbank offered rates (IBORs).

Greg Wojciechowski, President And CEO Of The Bermuda Stock Exchange Joined A Panel To Discuss The Connection Between ILS And ESG

Date 15/11/2019

Greg Wojciechowski, President and CEO of the Bermuda Stock Exchange, recently joined a panel to discuss the connection between insurance-linked securities (ILS) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations.

Statement Of SEC Commissioners Jackson And Lee On Non-Transparent Exchange Traded Funds

Date 15/11/2019

Yesterday the Commission took action on four applications for a relatively new type of exchange-traded fund. Unlike other ETFs, these funds won’t provide full daily transparency of exactly what’s in their portfolios. We are grateful to the tremendous Staff in the Division of Investment Management, especially Director Dalia Blass and her colleagues Daniele Marchesani, Andrea Ottomanelli Magovern, Deepak T. Pai, Kay-Mario Vobis, and Bradley Gude for the thoughtful approach they have taken to the hard questions raised by these applications. Because the Staff’s work produced important guardrails that will help protect investors from the risks of non-transparent funds, we voted to support these actions.

Remarks Of DSIO Director Joshua B. Sterling Before The K&L Gates Chicago Investment Management Conference, November 14, 2019, Trillions

Date 15/11/2019

Introduction.

Good morning.  I wish to begin by thanking K&L Gates for hosting this important conversation, and for the hospitality that they have extended to all gathered here today.

It is impossible to overstate the value of the bar in an open society that is sustained by a common respect for natural rights, fealty to the law, and the coruscating power of free markets.  Those markets afford a broad and grand wealth unparalleled in human history, and they operate under laws enacted with the consent of the governed.  General prosperity is only possible in such a system.  The alternative prescription of resource distribution by fiat would visit upon everyone a moribund and general destitution, delivered by a government of thuggery, cloaked in the color of law and malevolent towards the very idea that individual freedom is the birthright of all.