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Dubai Financial Market Welcomes Switzerland’s Leading Online Bank “Swissquote” In A Drive To Expand Market Access

Date 25/10/2022

• Swissquote places DFM’s listed securities on the radar of its clients from October 25th, 2022
• Hamed Ali: “Wide-ranging plan to take market accessibility to new pinnacles by increasing the number of technology-driven members”
• Jacques Barakat: “Giving our clients direct access to DFM’s growing investment opportunities is of strategic importance for our group”

UK Financial Conduct Authority Launches Discussion On Competition Impacts Of Big Tech On Financial Services Industry

Date 25/10/2022

The FCA is seeking views on the potential competition benefits and harms from Big Tech firms’ entry into a range of retail financial services sectors.

Broadridge Fully Automates Corporate Action And Dividend Events, Managed Through Euroclear CREST

Date 25/10/2022

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, announced today that it will enable clients to better automate the processing of Corporate Action and Dividends events managed through the Euroclear CREST platform. The new solution capabilities further enable financial institutions to simplify and automate their corporate actions processing while reducing the risk and complexity across their business. This service includes event creation, instruction management and payments processing and settlement, thereby reducing risk associated with human error and providing significant cost savings for clients.

HKEX: Exchange Publishes New Guidance Note On Cooperation And Updated Sanctions Statement

Date 25/10/2022

• The new Guidance Note on Cooperation clarifies expectations regarding cooperation, including the importance of timely engagement with the Exchange
• The updated Sanctions Statement provides additional detailed guidance on a listed issuer’s internal controls

Trading Challenges As The Equities Market Becomes Desensitized To Heightened Volatility: Jeff O’Connor, Head Of Market Structure, Americas, Liquidnet

Date 25/10/2022

Commenting on the difficult trading conditions and challenges traders are facing as the equities market becomes desensitized to heightened volatility, Jeff O’Connor, Head of Market Structure, Americas, for Liquidnet, said: “As earning season gets underway, trading desks are facing once in a generation headwinds as economic conditions tighten. Traders are not only having to contend with heightened risk but also difficult markets that are not behaving as they have done in the past.   The VIX for example, sitting at high levels, but not triggering the type of historical reaction to 3%+ moves in the major equity indexes.  The market has become accustomed to the real price volatility, almost desensitized to it.  And the wild moves are making trading conditions that much more difficult.

TS Imagine Bolsters APAC Team With Senior Hire

Date 25/10/2022

TS Imagine, a global leader in trading, portfolio and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announced the appointment of Frederic Villain as Head of Sales for Asia Pacific.

Temenos Launches Carbon Emissions Calculator On Temenos Banking Cloud

Date 25/10/2022

• Temenos calculates carbon emissions of its own cloud operations to help banks in their race for net zero
• Banks running on Temenos Banking Cloud benefit from more than 90% lower carbon emissions over traditional on premise infrastructures and applications

UK Financial Conduct Authority Proposes New Rules To Tackle Greenwashing

Date 25/10/2022

In a bid to clamp down on greenwashing, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing a package of new measures including investment product sustainability labels and restrictions on how terms like ‘ESG’, ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ can be used.

PrimaryBid Launches Pan-European Connect Platform - PrimaryBid's Open-Access B2B Technology Gives Partners And Their Customers Enhanced Access To Ipos, Placings And Bonds

Date 25/10/2022

PrimaryBid, the capital markets fintech bringing individual investors into public company fundraisings, today announced the launch of its pan-European B2B "Connect" platform. This open-access technology enables investment platforms, wealth managers, retail brokers, IFAs and fintechs across the UK and in the European Union to offer IPOs, placings and bonds directly to their retail investor customers.

BMLL Secures USD 26 Million Series B Funding - Fundraise Led By Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet And IQ Capital’s Growth Fund To Fuel BMLL Product And Geographic Expansion

Date 25/10/2022

BMLL, the leading, independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets, today announced it has secured a USD 26 million Series B investment in its latest funding round. The round was led by Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet and IQ Capital’s Growth Fund, supported by ACF Investors and other new and existing investors.