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Open Regulators And Open Markets, Speech By Ashley Alder, UK Financial Conduct Authority Chair, Delivered At The UK Mission To The European Union

Date 21/02/2024

Highlights:

• Global cooperation amongst regulators is vital for cross-border risks.
• The FCA’s three primary statutory objectives are fully aligned with an open markets philosophy.
• The FCA is committed to finding consistent international responses to challenges that increasingly give rise to cross-border risks, including ESG, Fintech and NBFI.
• The 2023 UK-EU MOU on regulatory cooperation on financial services will enable us to deepen relationships with our EU counterparts as we pursue similar reforms.

Bank Of England: Court Minutes From 2021 That Were Previously Redacted

Date 21/02/2024

The Bank's Court of Directors acts as a unitary board, setting the organisation's strategy and budget and taking key decisions on resourcing and appointments. Required to meet a minimum seven times per year, it has five executive members from the Bank and up to nine non-executive members.

Cboe Global Markets And MSCI Collaborate To Offer New Index Options And Volatility Indices

Date 21/02/2024

• Latest initiative represents Cboe and MSCI's growing relationship and will expand Cboe's current product suite
• Cboe plans to offer three new options tied to MSCI's international, developed, emerging and U.S. markets benchmark indices, set to launch on March 18, pending regulatory approval
• Cboe also introduces two new volatility indices based on existing MSCI Index options and the proprietary VIX Index Methodology

Nasdaq Private Market Adds Michael Buono And Phil Germann To Capital Markets Division - Company Hires Private Market Sales Leaders To Strengthen Services For Investors, Shareholders, And Global Banks

Date 21/02/2024

Nasdaq Private Market (NPM), a leading marketplace for the efficient trading of private company stock, announced today that it has hired Michael Buono and Phil Germann as Directors within its Capital Markets division. Mr. Buono and Mr. Germann will be tasked with driving shareholder, investor, and global bank adoption of the NPM SecondMarket^TM trading marketplace. They will both report into Sharif Khaleel, Managing Director and Head of Execution at Nasdaq Private Market.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Meeting Of The Court Of Directors Held On 14 December 2023

Date 21/02/2024

The Bank's Court of Directors acts as a unitary board, setting the organisation's strategy and budget and taking key decisions on resourcing and appointments. Required to meet a minimum seven times per year, it has five executive members from the Bank and up to nine non-executive members.

Traxys Enhances Commodity Market Risk & Counterparty Risk Management With Quantifi

Date 21/02/2024

Quantifi, a provider of risk, analytics and trading solutions, today announced that it has successfully completed its implementation at Traxys. This implementation enhances the monitoring and management of commodity market and counterparty credit risk across Traxys’ global operations. With a presence in 20 key locations worldwide, Traxys specialises in marketing and sourcing of base metals and concentrates, minor and alloying metals, industrial minerals and chemicals, and materials for steel mills and foundries.

Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) – Speech By Swati Dhingra, Member Of The Bank Of England Monetary Policy Committee, Given At Market News International Connect Event

Date 21/02/2024

In her speech, Swati Dhingra discusses why she voted to lower interest rates at the Monetary Policy Committee's most recent meeting. She emphasises the developments in prices and the striking weakness in consumption, which has not recovered to its pre-pandemic level.

360T Launches Crypto NDF Offering, With Wintermute Asia And Crypto Finance Pioneering The First Trade On The Platform.

Date 21/02/2024

360T facilitated the first Crypto Non-deliverable Forward (NDF) trade between Wintermute Asia and Crypto Finance as the two counterparties.

Adaptive Announces Results Of Joint Performance Testing Of Aeron Technology On Google Cloud

Date 21/02/2024

• Testing shows Adaptive’s Aeron technology coupled with Google Cloud can enable high performance and scale for capital markets.
• Collaborative testing affirms that the cloud's latency and fault tolerance can rival on-premises solutions.
• Aeron achieves sub-20 microsecond performance on Google Cloud with throughput of 4.7 million messages/second

Worldline Extends Partnership With BNP Paribas Fortis To Deliver Best-In-Class And Customer-Centric Issuing Solutions

Date 21/02/2024

Worldline (Euronext: WLN), a global leader in payment services, is extending its partnership with BNP Paribas Fortis, the Belgian subsidiary of the French multinational bank and financial services provider, BNP Paribas. The extension is starting from now on, for five years at least, and focuses on the delivery of best-in-class and customer-centric issuing solutions.