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  • BIS: Testing The Cognitive Limits Of Large Language Models

    Date 04/01/2024

    Key takeaways

    • When posed with a logical puzzle that demands reasoning about the knowledge of others and about counterfactuals, large language models (LLMs) display a distinctive and revealing pattern of failure.
    • The LLM performs flawlessly when presented with the original wording of the puzzle available on the internet but performs poorly when incidental details are changed, suggestive of a lack of true understanding of the underlying logic.
    • Our findings do not detract from the considerable progress in central bank applications of machine learning to data management, macro analysis and regulation/supervision. They do, however, suggest that caution should be exercised in deploying LLMs in contexts that demand rigorous reasoning in economic analysis.

  • ZhongDe Waste Technology AG: BaFin Imposes Administrative Fines

    Date 04/01/2024

    On 18 October 2023, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) imposed administrative fines totalling 331,500 euros on ZhongDe Waste Technology AG. The fines were imposed because the company had contravened obligations under the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – WpHG). ZhongDe Waste Technology AG failed to publish an announcement stating the date from which and the website on which the annual financial report for the financial year 2021 was made publicly available. In addition, the company failed to publish its half-yearly financial report for the financial year 2022. The company also failed to publish an announcement stating the date from which and the website on which the half-yearly financial report for the financial year 2022 was made publicly available.

  • Receipts Depositary Corporation (RDC) Announces First Bitcoin Depositary Receipts For Qualified Institutional Buyers - Franklin Templeton, BTIG And Broadhaven Ventures Lead Backing For RDC

    Date 04/01/2024

    Receipts Depositary Corporation (RDC) today announced the launch of the first ever Bitcoin depositary receipt (BTC DR). RDC expects to issue the first BTC DRs in transactions exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 to Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) in the coming weeks. BTC DRs are now available on an ongoing basis for issuance to QIBs.

  • Intercontinental Exchange Reports December, Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2023 Statistics

    Date 04/01/2024

    • Total Futures & Options ADV +39% y/y in December; +10% y/y in 2023
    • Record annual volume across Brent, WTI and TTF gas

  • Bank Of England: Minutes Of The CBDC Technology Forum - October 2023

    Date 04/01/2024

    Tom Mutton (Chair) welcomed Members to the eighth meeting of the CBDC Technology Forum.

    The Chair noted that a summary of responses to the Bank of England (the Bank) and HM Treasury’s Consultation Paper on the digital pound, as well as feedback on the Bank’s Technology Working Paper on the digital pound, would be published in due course.