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CME Group To Launch Solana (SOL) Futures On March 17

Date 28/02/2025

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced plans to launch Solana (SOL) futures on March 17, pending regulatory review. Market participants will have the choice to trade both a micro-sized contract (25 SOL) and a larger-sized contract (500 SOL).

Statement By SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw: Crypto 2.0: Regulatory Whiplash

Date 28/02/2025

[1]Today the Commission moved the Court to dismiss its enforcement action against Coinbase, a crypto trading platform. This reverse-course midstream – coupled with recent high-profile stays of other litigations – is not only unprecedented, it ignores 80 years of well-established law.  We say we are dismissing the action because of future recommendations that may be made by the “crypto task force dedicated to helping the Commission develop the regulatory framework for crypto assets.”[2] But, whatever the law may be tomorrow, market participants should not be able to avoid the law as it stands today. 

McKay Brothers Launches Fastest Connectivity Between Tokyo And Europe

Date 28/02/2025

• New ultra-low latency service connects crypto exchange clouds in Tokyo with those in London and Dublin

Finansinspektionen: Capital Requirements For Swedish Banks As Of Q4 2024

Date 28/02/2025

Finansinspektionen publishes the capital requirements of the largest Swedish banks and credit institutions that belong to supervisory categories 1 and 2 as of the end of Q4 2024.

Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Summary Report 28 February 2025

Date 28/02/2025

Click here to download Malawi Stock Exchange's weekly summary report.

Trump’s NIH Funding Cuts And Freezes Raise Concerns Over US Biotech Drug Development And Innovation, Reveals GlobalData

Date 28/02/2025

The US President Donald Trump began his second term with a series of directives targeting the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), creating uncertainty around NIH grant funding for biopharmaceutical drug development. With over $1.4 billion in NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants involving innovator drugs awarded between 2020 and 2024, the funding cuts and freezes could hamper biopharmaceutical innovation and limit patient access to drugs, reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

NSE Indices Index Dashboard For The Month Ended February 2025

Date 28/02/2025

Click here to download the 'Index Dashboard' for the month ended February 2025.

HKEX: Report On Initial Public Offering Applications, Delisting And Suspensions (February 2025)

Date 28/02/2025

This monthly report provides key statistics relating to the various stages in discharging our regulatory oversight duties during the reporting period. The information for the reporting period covers, among others, the number of applications processed and their current status, the number of comment letters and guidance issued to new/ potential new listing applicants and their advisers with the corresponding processing time, the number of rejection and return of listing applications, as well as the number of delisted and suspended companies.

FESE - 2024 In Review: Market Trends And Developments

Date 28/02/2025

FESE is pleased to share three key publications providing an overview of European capital markets in 2024. The FESE Annual Statistical Report 2024 presents a detailed summary of trading activity throughout the year while the Capital Markets Fact Sheet Q4 2024 highlights market trends and developments from the final quarter. Additionally, the Listed Equity Database 2024 offers comprehensive data on listings, replacing previous databases for a more complete market perspective.

Surveys, Forecasts And Scenarios: Setting UK Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty − Speech By Dave Ramsden, Bank Of England Deputy Governor, Markets And Banking, Given At The Bureau For Economic Research, Stellenbosch University

Date 28/02/2025

Dave Ramsden sets out how his views on monetary policy in the UK have evolved in recent months, in light of increased uncertainty, and the role surveys, forecasts and scenarios can play in supporting monetary policy setting when faced with that uncertainty.