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  • Record Clearing Volumes At LCH With Growth Across Services And Regions; Expansion Of Offering For The Uncleared Derivatives Market

    Date 19/01/2023

    • Record volumes registered across LCH clearing services including SwapClear, ForexClear, RepoClear, EquityClear and CDSClear, as well as at SwapAgent
    • Expansion of offering for the uncleared derivatives market through acquisitions of Quantile and Acadia

  • BIS: The Bank Of Amsterdam And The Limits Of Fiat Money

    Date 19/01/2023

    Summary

    Focus 

    Fiat money is issued by decree, or "by fiat". Trust in fiat money is ensured through sound institutions, in particular central banks. Central banks work to maintain the value of the currency, often through measures on their own balance sheets. But what happens in the case of large losses? It is well known that central banks can operate with negative equity for a time, and many have done so in recent history. Yet there are limits, beyond which trust in fiat money falls away.

  • SEC Awards Approximately $18 Million To Three Whistleblowers

    Date 19/01/2023

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced three awards totaling approximately $18 million to three whistleblowers whose information and assistance led to a successful enforcement action.

  • TechNet Appoints New Executive Council Leadership - Nasdaq Executive Vice Chairman Ed Knight Named Chairman And Zoom COO Aparna Bawa Named Vice Chair

    Date 19/01/2023

    TechNet, the national, bipartisan network of technology CEOs and senior executives, today announced Ed Knight, Executive Vice Chairman of Nasdaq, has been named Chairman of TechNet and Aparna Bawa, Zoom’s Chief Operating Officer, has been named Vice Chair. Both will serve for two years.

  • BIS: The Technology Of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

    Date 19/01/2023

    Summary

    Focus 

    Decentralised finance (DeFi) builds on distributed ledger technologies (DLT) to offer services such as trading, lending and investing without using a traditional centralised intermediary. The fact that DeFi components can be programmed may open up new possibilities for more competitive financial markets, and could bring efficiency gains. However, DeFi introduces enormous technological and economic complexity that makes it increasingly difficult to assess the risks and potential of DeFi financial products. But financial institutions and regulators dealing with DeFi need just such a systematic evaluation of these factors.