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AZB & Partners Tops M&A Legal Adviser In APAC Region For 2022, Finds GlobalData

Date 27/01/2023

AZB & Partners was the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) legal adviser in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in 2022 by both value as well as volume, according to the latest legal advisers league table by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC Transaction In Own Shares

Date 27/01/2023

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (Morgan Stanley) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022:

Citi, Avendus Capital Top M&A Financial Advisers By Value And Volume In APAC Region For 2022, Finds GlobalData

Date 27/01/2023

Citi and Avendus Capital were the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financial advisers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in 2022 by value and volume, respectively, according to the latest financial advisers league table by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

ISDA - Navigating Bankruptcy In Digital Asset Markets: Netting And Collateral Enforceability

Date 26/01/2023

The collapse in November 2022 of FTX, one of the largest and highest profile crypto exchange platforms, sent shockwaves through financial markets. Coming only months after the failure of TerraUSD and the subsequent bankruptcy of Three Arrows Capital and Celsius, the insolvency of FTX and associated companies (including Alameda Research) prompted a cascade of liquidity and solvency concerns across the crypto ecosystem, with crypto lender BlockFi filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and several other firms suspending redemptions.

Keynote Address Of CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson At Digital Assets @ Duke Conference, Duke’s Pratt School Of Engineering And Duke Financial Economics Center - Mitigating Crypto-Crises: Applying Lessons Learned In Governance, Risk Management, And Compliance

Date 26/01/2023

Thank you so much for the kind invitation to join you for Digital Assets @ Duke. An anticipated disclaimer—the remarks that I will share today are my own and not the views of my fellow Commissioners or the Commission staff.

ISDA Launches Standard Definitions For Digital Asset Derivatives

Date 26/01/2023

ISDA has published new standard documentation for the trading of digital asset derivatives, alongside a whitepaper that addresses some of the legal issues raised by the recent bankruptcies of major crypto exchanges and market participants.

Euronext Corporate Services Expands Its Webcast Studio Network To Milan

Date 26/01/2023

Euronext Corporate Services, part of the Euronext Group, today announced the official opening of its webcast studio in Milan, Italy. This is the newest European studio of Company Webcast, the webinar company of Euronext Corporate Services and one of the market leaders in professional webcast and webinar solutions. Company Webcast runs the biggest network of broadcast-quality studios in Europe with eight studios in five countries.

SEC: Market Structure Updated Metrics

Date 26/01/2023

SEC Staff is pleased to provide you with the following updates:

• Updated Metrics. Data series containing daily cancel-to-trade ratios, trade-order volumes, hidden rates, and odd-lot rate metrics for Q4 2022 are now available. This data extends to 132 total months the data series you can view in the data visualization tool as well as download in CSV format. The visualization for quote-life data now defaults to Q4 2022.

BIS: Does Money Growth Help Explain The Recent Inflation Surge?

Date 26/01/2023

Key takeaways

• The strength of the link between money growth and inflation depends on the inflation regime: it is one-to-one when inflation is high and virtually non-existent when it is low.
• A link can also be seen in the recent possible transition from a low- to a high-inflation regime. An upsurge in money growth preceded the inflation flare-up, and countries with stronger money growth saw markedly higher inflation.
• Looking at money growth would have helped to improve post-pandemic inflation forecasts, suggesting that its information value may have been neglected.

Pico Announces Important Upgrade to VoIP Analytics Product

Date 26/01/2023

• Unparalleled Scale – new Corvil 10000 can monitor 100G networks and analyze 20,000 simultaneous calls.  
• New waveform analysis capability using machine intelligence to analyze voice quality on thousands of simultaneous calls – coming in 2023. 
• Cloud VoIP Analytics – currently in beta, Corvil VoIP Analytics will be available for AWS deployment in Q1 2023.