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ESG Book Appoints John Wise As New Chair As Company Accelerates Global Growth - Wise To Support ESG Book As It Scales To Become The Market Leader In Sustainability Data And Technology.

Date 05/10/2023

• Global sustainability-led assets are expected to swell to $50 trillion by 2025, but markets are demanding better data to meet increasingly complex ESG requirements.
• ESG Book is shaking-up the industry as the only independent, cloud-based provider of transparent ESG data, with clients including Bloomberg, Citi, Dow Jones, and JP Morgan.
• With the world's largest sustainability disclosure platform, ESG Book's real-time, cloud-native technology directly connects corporates with financial institutions.
• John Wise is a serial entrepreneur and co-founded fintech unicorn InvestCloud, which he grew into a business with more than $6 trillion of assets on platform in just over a decade.
• He brings world-class expertise in scaling fast-growth fintech companies in Europe and the United States, and joins ESG Book as the company rapidly expands in a $5 billion market.

Raiffeisen Bank International Lists Structured Securities In Easy Euwax Trading Segment - High Trading Quality And Transparency Without Exchange Transaction Fees For Around 4,000 Products

Date 05/10/2023

Raiffeisen Bank International is listing structured securities as an issuer in the Easy Euwax trading segment of Boerse Stuttgart Group. For the approximately 4,000 leverage and investment products of Raiffeisen Bank International listed on Easy Euwax, no exchange transaction fees are charged.

SET Market Report For September 2023

Date 05/10/2023

Investor appetite for stock market in September 2023 was whittled down following a market correction, particularly in growth and technology stocks. The stock market fall could be attributed to US bond yield spikes after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept the policy rate on hold at September’s meeting as expected and ruled out US recession this year. The US central bank’s tightening cycle is seemed to last longer than expected and this propels US dollar rally. For oil, its global price increased after major producers still maintained their output.

Bursa Malaysia Launches The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) Handbook At Its Inaugural Carbon Market Forum - Continuing The Momentum In Developing The VCM Ecosystem In Malaysia

Date 05/10/2023

The Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change (NRECC), YB Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad today launched Malaysia’s Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) Handbook at the Bursa Malaysia Carbon Market Forum 2023, held in conjunction with the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition and Conference Malaysia (IGEM) 2023.

TMX Datalinx Announces Launch Of TMX ESG Data Hub

Date 05/10/2023

TMX DatalinxⓇ, TMX Group’s information services division, today announced the launch of the TMX ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Data Hub. 

Margin Finance Rises Pile Pressure On Hedge Funds – Acuiti Report

Date 05/10/2023

The sell-side is increasing margin finance rates for hedge funds at a faster pace than rate rises, putting pressure on strategies and performance, the latest Acuiti Hedge Fund Management Insight report has found.

Hedge Fund Launches Surge Through Mid-Year, Dominated By Multi Strategy Inflation Trading - Industry Growth Accelerates As Launches Exceed Liquidations - Fees Steady, Increase On Capacity, Demand As Volatility, Inflation Drive Expansion

Date 05/10/2023

New hedge fund launches surged through mid-2023 as managers shifted the strategic growth focus to aggressive expansion of inflation trading teams in multi-strategy funds designed for and positioned to trade volatility driven by rising rates and generational inflation.  The estimated number of new hedge fund launches surged to 133 in 2Q23, bringing the 1H23 launch total to 226, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.

NZX Issue Of Ordinary Shares

Date 05/10/2023

The attached capital change notice is given under NZX Listing Rule 3.13.1 and relates to the issue of ordinary shares in NZX Limited (NZX) under the NZX Dividend Reinvestment Plan.

BIS And Central Bank Partners To Explore Protocols For Embedding Policy And Regulatory Compliance In Cross-Border Transactions

Date 05/10/2023

• Project Mandala looks to automate compliance procedures, provide real-time transaction monitoring and increase transparency and visibility around country-specific policies. 
• The project explores the feasibility of encoding policy and regulatory requirements into a common protocol. 
• It is a joint collaboration between BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) Singapore Centre, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Bank of Korea (BOK), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), with financial institutions.

New Zealand Financial Markets Authority Report: Lessons Learned From Barry Kloogh Ponzi

Date 05/10/2023

The FMA today published a report on the findings of its inquiries following the Barry Kloogh fraud. These inquiries focused on the services provided to Kloogh by third party market participants.