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European Commission: Press Statement By Michel Barnier Following The General Affairs Council (Article 50)

Date 19/11/2018

Opening statement by Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all well after a very busy few days and also busy nights.

Thank you very much, Gernot, for your appreciation. Thank you also to the team of the Austrian Presidency. If I may, at a very key moment where we are in this negotiation, I want to thank the Council, the team of the Council, the Parliament also, and obviously Jean-Claude Juncker and all the services of the Commission for their trust and their cooperation.

IOSCO Members Found Mostly Compliant With Principles For Commodity Derivatives Markets

Date 19/11/2018

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published the findings of an updated survey that show respondent IOSCO members to be broadly compliant with the IOSCO Principles for the Regulation and Supervision of Commodity Derivatives Markets (the Principles).

Al Mawared Brokerage's AAmman Stock Exchange Weekly Report, 19 November 2018

Date 19/11/2018

Click here to download Al Mawared Brokerage's weekly report on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The Report is designed to give an overview of developments in the Jordan Capital Markets as well as ASE performance indicators.

EGX Signed A Protocol Of Cooperation With "Cairo Investment And Real Estate Development" To Educate Students On Investment

Date 19/11/2018

Chairman, Cairo for Investment and Real Estate Development (CIRA) as step forwards within the efforts to raise the financial awareness as a sustainable base in the financial literacy.

Cyborg Supervision – The Application Of Advanced Analytics In Prudential Supervision - Speech Given By James Proudman Executive Director, UK Deposit Takers Supervision Workshop On Research On Bank Supervision, Bank Of England, 19 November 2018

Date 19/11/2018

Recognising faces comes instinctively to humans. Until fairly recently, however, it proved beyond the ability of computers. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) - the use of a machine to simulate human behaviour – and its subset, machine learning (ML) – in which a machine teaches itself to perform tasks – are now making facial recognition software much more widely available. You might even use it to access your bank account.

SARON Futures: Transitioning The Swiss-Denominated Market Smoothly To The New Risk-Free Rate

Date 19/11/2018

Following the introduction of the Three-Month SARON® Futures to help the Swiss market transition to a new risk-free rate, Eurex spoke with Martin Bardenhewer, Head of Financial Institutions & Multinationals, Zürcher Kantonalbank and Co-chair of the Swiss National Working Group on Reference Rates (NWG), Pascal Anderegg, Interest Rate Derivatives Trader, Zürcher Kantonalbank, and Michel Erni, Head of Market Rates & Director at Basler Kantonalbank.

JPX Welcomed Mark Carney, Governor Of The Bank Of England And Chair Of The Financial Stability Board, For A Discussion On Promoting The FSB's Task Force On Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Date 19/11/2018

On November 5, Japan Exchange Group Inc. welcomed Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), for a discussion on promoting the FSB's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). 

FSA: Japan And France Sign Cooperation Frameworks Regarding Innovation In The Financial Sector

Date 19/11/2018

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has signed two cooperation frameworks, respectively with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) of France to promote innovation in their respective markets. This will lead to increased exchanges regarding innovative trends, regulatory issues and any other relevant information pertaining to innovation in the financial sector. These cooperation frameworks also include referral mechanisms for financial innovators which will therefore facilitate their entry into French or Japanese markets.

Nandita Parshad To Lead EBRD’s New Sustainable Infrastructure Team

Date 19/11/2018

Capitalising on synergies between both businesses, the EBRD is bringing together its energy and infrastructure teams in a consolidated Sustainable Infrastructure group headed by Nandita Parshad as Managing Director.

FSB Publishes Reports On Implementation Of OTC Derivatives Reforms And Removal Of Legal Barriers

Date 19/11/2018

The FSB today published the following two reports:

• setting out progress on reforms to over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets and

• reporting on FSB member jurisdictions’ actions to remove legal barriers relating to OTC derivatives trade reporting.