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BlockFills Appoints Amy Shelly As CFO, Promotes Neil Van Huis To Chief Strategy Officer - New Roles Lay Groundwork For Continued Growth Geographically And Diversification Of Product Offering

Date 23/10/2024

BlockFills, a leading digital assets technology and trading firm for institutions and professional traders, today announced the appointment of Amy Shelly as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and promotion of Neil Van Huis to Chief Strategy Officer. The executives assume significant leadership roles as the firm prepares to launch international offices, expands the BlockFills product offering and positions itself for major growth in the institutional digital assets space.

CME Group Inc. Reports All-Time Record Revenue, Adjusted Operating Income, Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings Per Share for Q3 2024

Date 23/10/2024

• Record revenue of $1.6 billion
• Record quarterly ADV of 28.3 million contracts - the second consecutive quarter of volume, open interest growth across every asset class

FSB Analyses Interest Rate And Liquidity Risks And The Role Of Technology And Social Media On Depositor Behaviour

Date 23/10/2024

• FSB analysis finds life insurers, non-bank real estate investors, and a weak tail of banks to be most vulnerable to the confluence of solvency and liquidity risks.
• Technological developments and social media could accelerate future bank runs, with implications for liquidity risk management practices and supervision.
• Report calls on bank managers and financial sector authorities to address the liquidity and solvency vulnerabilities that give rise to extreme deposit outflows and to be able to react much more quickly to deposit outflows than in the past.

An Enabling Regulatory Framework For Innovation: Web3 & Fintech

Date 23/10/2024

The Z/Yen Group has today published its report, “An Enabling Regulatory Framework for Innovation: Web3 & FinTech”, commissioned by the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council. The report explores the development of regulatory approaches in the context of the introduction of Web3, which is designed to enhance the machine readability of web content and foster a more intelligent, interconnected, and decentralised internet architecture.

ETFGI: Fifty-Eight Percent Of The Top 50 Overseas Securities Purchased By Korean Retail Investors In September Were ETFs Listed In The United States And Japan

Date 23/10/2024

ETFGI, a prominent independent research and consultancy firm specializing in providing subscription research on trends in the global ETFs industry, reported today that 58% of the top 50 overseas securities purchased by Korean retail investors in September were ETFs listed in the United States and Japan. In  September, 29 of the top 50 overseas securities purchased by Korean retail investors were ETFs listed in the United States and Japan. The number of ETFs on the list were up by 1 from 28 in August 2024, it is up by 2 from 27 in July 2024, and it is up by 3 from 26 in June 2024. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted)

GlobalData Announces Top M&A financial And Legal Advisers In Consumer Sector During Q1-Q3 2024

Date 23/10/2024

GlobalData has announced the latest Financial and Legal Adviser League Tables, which rank the advisers by the total value and volume of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals they advised on in the consumer sector during Q1-Q3 2024. 

Eurex Clearing Successfully Participates In ECB Trials For Wholesale Digital Money Pilot

Date 23/10/2024

• Eurex Clearing successfully concluded testing with Banque de France’s Full DLT Interoperability Solution.
• Tests reaffirm the importance of central counterparties (CCPs) in DLT-based environments.
• Together with the clearing community, trials were conducted to test cash settlement in cleared intraday repo transactions and intraday margin calls within production environments.

Securities Commission Malaysia’s Audit Oversight Board Prohibits Auditor From Auditing For One Year

Date 23/10/2024

The Securities Commission Malaysia’s Audit Oversight Board (AOB) has prohibited Sathiea Seelean A/L Manickam (Sathiea) from accepting as clients and auditing any public interest entities (PIEs) or schedule funds for a one-year period, starting 22 October 2024. 

Dalian Commodity Exchange And Uzbek Commodity Exchange Sign Data Exchange Agreement

Date 23/10/2024

Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) and Uzbek Commodity Exchange (UZEX) have recently signed a data exchange agreement to facilitate the sharing of settlement prices of commodity contracts. By bolstering market research and information display and sharing across the two exchanges, DCE and UZEX hope to promote and encourage the wider use of their futures prices, increase the efficiency of commodity trade between China and Uzbekistan, and better align with the Belt and Road Initiative.

HKEX 2024 Third Quarter Results

Date 23/10/2024

Bonnie Y Chan, Chief Executive Officer said: “HKEX had a strong third quarter, achieving its second-best ever nine-month revenue and profit. The vibrancy and diversity of Hong Kong’s markets were on full display in late September, as investor sentiment turned more favourable following the announcement of economic stimulus measures in Mainland China, as well as the monetary easing policies adopted by major central banks. This drove strong volumes in all our markets, with multiple daily records achieved across the Cash, Derivatives, ETP and Northbound and Southbound Stock Connect markets. Furthermore, the Commodities market extended its robust performance in the third quarter, reporting a 25 per cent year-on-year gain in LME chargeable average daily volumes during the nine-month period, contributing to the strength in the Group’s results during this period."