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Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Meeting Of The Court Of Directors Held On 26 May 2022

Date 26/07/2022

The Bank's Court of Directors acts as a unitary board, setting the organisation's strategy and budget and taking key decisions on resourcing and appointments. Required to meet a minimum seven times per year, it has five executive members from the Bank and up to nine non-executive members.

MARF Admits A New 200 Million Euro Commercial Paper Programme From Securitisation Fund Factor One

Date 26/07/2022

BME's Fixed Income Market, MARF, today admitted the Basic Information Document about Factor One’s Commercial Paper (CP) Securitisation Programme, a Securitisation Fund that will allow it to issue CPs up to 200 million euros. The Fund is managed by Intermoney Titulización, SGFT.

CoinShares Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report

Date 26/07/2022

CoinShares, Europe's largest and longest standing digital asset investment firm, issued its latest research looking at investment inflows and outflows in popular ETPs, mutual funds, and OTC trusts referencing bitcoin, ether and other digital assets.

Clearstream And LCH SA Add Austria And Spain To Joint Connection

Date 26/07/2022

As from today, all Austrian and Spanish government debt securities cleared by LCH SA’s RepoClear service are available for settlement through Clearstream Banking AG.

BaFin Imposes Administrative Fine

Date 26/07/2022

On 14 July 2022, BaFin imposed an administrative fine amounting to 2,500euros on a natural person due to a breach of Article 15 in conjunction with Article 12 (1) (a) (i) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

GFT Among Europe's Leaders For Data Analytics And Machine Learning In The Google Cloud

Date 26/07/2022

Artificial intelligence could contribute close to USD 16 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Successfully implementing AI solutions has become key for the continued competitiveness of companies in all industries.

LCH SA’s RepoClear Expands Settlement Connections

Date 26/07/2022

• From Tuesday 26 July, 2022, RepoClear has extended its settlement connections to investor CSDs so that members are now able to settle:
  • Dutch Government bonds at Euroclear Netherlands
  • Austrian and Spanish Government bonds at Clearstream Banking Frankfurt

GPW Benchmark - Statement

Date 26/07/2022

GPW Benchmark, as the Administrator of the GPW Indices Family, informs that - in order to maintain the transparency of the index method and its representativeness - the removal of Grupa Lotos S.A. from the WIG20 portfolios and other GPW Indices will be carried out as an extraordinary adjustment after two days from the date of publishing the information on the entry of the merger with PKN Orlen in the relevant court register.

Sell-Side Systems In Need Of Upgrade For New Risk Reality: Acuiti And Sterling Trading Tech

Date 26/07/2022

Sell-side risk management is in need of an overhaul that consolidates systems and incorporates the increased importance of margin into risk calculations.

Monetary Authority Of Singapore And Google Cloud Launch Point Carbon Zero Programme To Catalyse Climate FinTech Solutions

Date 26/07/2022

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Google Cloud have jointly launched the Point Carbon Zero Programme to drive the innovation, incubation and scaling of climate FinTech solutions in Asia. The Programme is a collaboration under MAS’ Project Greenprint [1] and seeks to use climate FinTech solutions to bolster financial sector access to accurate and granular climate-related data, for more efficient deployment of capital towards green and sustainable projects. To support the Programme, Google Cloud will launch a world’s first open-source cloud platform dedicated to climate finance, which will facilitate the deployment of these climate FinTech solutions and their adoption by the financial sector.