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Regulating Innovation: A Global Enterprise - Speech By Christopher Woolard, Executive Director Of Strategy And Competition At The FCA, Delivered At Innovate Finance 2018

Date 19/03/2018

Highlights:

• Collaboration with international colleagues has been a core part of the FCA’s FinTech story since we launched Project Innovate in 2014.
• Our regulatory sandbox is supporting firms in reducing the time and cost of getting innovative ideas to market.
• We’re increasingly hearing a demand from firms to operate internationally, so we’re working with partners from around the world to consider options for a global sandbox.
• The potential of such a project is huge – from solving global problems like money laundering to reducing the regulatory burden of compliance.

ASEAN Capital Market Regulators Welcome The Progress Of The ASEAN Green Bond Standards And Agree To Implement Professional Mobility Framework To Drive Regional Connectivity

Date 19/03/2018

The ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) welcomed the progress achieved by the ASEAN Green Bond Standards at its meeting today. Since its launch in November 2017, the ASEAN Green Bond Standards have gained encouraging traction and there have been three issuances from Malaysia and Singapore carrying the ASEAN Green Bond label. The first sovereign sukuk in ASEAN issued by Indonesia is aligned with the ASEAN Green Bond Standards.

Financial Services Agency Of Japan Blockchain Round-Table - Multilateral Joint Research Project

Date 19/03/2018

The Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) held the “Blockchain Round-Table” on March 8 and 9 with the participation of foreign and Japanese regulatory and supervisory authorities and central banks (UK Financial Conduct Authority, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Australian Securities Investments Commission, Abu Dhabi Global Market Financial Services Regulatory Authority, France Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Bank of Japan and Bank of Canada) as well as foreign and Japanese academic institutions. (MIT Media Lab, The University of Tokyo and Keio University)

Intercontinental Exchange Announces Transition Of Credit Default Swap Open Interest From CME Group To ICE Clear Credit - Launches CDX Clearing At ICE Clear Europe

Date 19/03/2018

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, announced the transition of index credit default swap (CDS) open interest from CME Group to ICE Clear Credit, ICE’s U.S.-based CDS clearing house. This has been the first transition of its kind and it follows CME Group’s announcement in September 2017 that it was exiting the CDS business and would work with customers to transition open positions to an alternate clearing house.

Nordea Bank AB Facilitates Access To MOEX"s FX Market

Date 19/03/2018

Nordea Bank AB, a leading bank in Northern Europe, has started automated trading on Moscow Exchange’s FX Market via Sponsored Market Access (SMA).

Deutsche Boerse Group Annual Report 2017

Date 19/03/2018

Deutsche Boerse Group has published its Corporate report 2017. The report can be accessed via the following link:

http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en/investor-relations/financial-reports/annual-report 

Euronext Announces Supervisory Board CXhanges

Date 19/03/2018

Euronext today announces that Rijnhard van Tets, Chairman of the   Supervisory Board of Euronext N.V. has decided to step down following the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) to be held on 15 May 2018. Rijnhard van Tets has notified the Supervisory Board that he will not be available for a new term. The Supervisory Board has elected the current Vice-Chairman Dick Sluimers as its next Chairman, subject to regulatory approval.

HKEX: Adjustment Of Power Assets Structured Products, Futures And Options

Date 19/03/2018

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has announced the arrangements for the adjustment to Power Assets Holdings Ltd (Power Assets) structured products, futures and options to account for Power Assets’ special interim dividend.

Transforming Culture In Financial Services - Speech By Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive Of The FCA, At The Transforming Culture In Financial Services Conference

Date 19/03/2018

Highlights

• Work on firm culture is embedded in the work of our supervisors and is an important priority for the FCA.
• Essays in our Discussion Paper on transforming culture in financial services indicate that culture is about encouraging and incentivising good things, not just stopping bad things from happening.
• The Senior Managers Regime and measures to govern the payment of remuneration are important developments in creating incentives for good culture.

Risk Focus APIX Powers Xignite’s CloudAddin

Date 19/03/2018

Risk Focus, Inc., the specialist provider of trading, regulatory, and risk services, announced today that its APIX For Excel product is the engine that powers Xignite Inc.’s  CloudAddin, a Microsoft® Excel Add-In, specifically designed for Excel power users, application developers and data scientists. APIX powered Xignite CloudAddIn lets analysts, portfolio managers and quants access and integrate streaming real-time, fundamentals and historical financial market data directly into Excel spreadsheets. APIX is unique in its ability to dynamically expose enterprise service APIs to Excel® in the form of easy-to-use native functions. APIX, combined with zero footprint data APIs from Xignite, completely eliminates the need to store or manipulate market data on customer site.