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A Successful Partnership Worth Celebrating: Korea Exchange And Eurex Management Meet In Seoul

Date 06/09/2022

There is no substitute for a face-to-face meeting, especially when it comes to celebrating a success. And the partnership between Eurex Exchange and the Korea Exchange (KRX), now in its 12th year, is undoubtedly that. Meeting for the first time in Seoul, the CEO of KRX, Byungdoo Sohn, Michael Peters, CEO of Eurex, and Randolf Roth, Executive Board Member of Eurex, were pleased to celebrate the collaboration and joint success in person. 

Sustainable Finance: The Italian Sustainability Week Of Borsa Italiana Kicks Off Today

Date 06/09/2022

• From 5 to 9 September, Italian companies and international investors discuss sustainability topics

• 56 listed companies, 3 unlisted companies and the Ministry of Economy and Finance hold over 800 individual and group virtual meetings with 177 investors representing 95 domestic and international investment houses, to discuss their sustainable growth strategies  

CME Group Proposes April 14, 2023 For Fallbacks Conversion Of Eurodollar Futures And Options Contracts

Date 06/09/2022

• Proposal does not apply to Eurodollar futures and options that expire before June 30, 2023 
• Conversion date aligns with OTC market plans
• Market participants invited to provide feedback until September 30
• SOFR options to be added to portfolio margining solution

Alpian Partners With Visa To Offer Innovative, Digital, And Smart Payment Solutions For Switzerland

Date 06/09/2022

Alpian SA ("Alpian"), Switzerland's first digital private bank, today announces its partnership with Visa, a world leader in digital payments. With this step Alpian has become a Principal Member of Visa, allowing the company to issue its exclusive metal debit card in Switzerland.   

Bybit Partners With SignalPlus In An Industry-First Partnership

Date 06/09/2022

Bybit, one of the world's fastest growing cryptocurrency exchanges, has entered partnership with SignalPlus, a leading enterprise technology company offering options trading for digital and crypto assets, to provide a next level trading experience for Bybit users.

HKEX Monthly Market Highlights

Date 06/09/2022

Highlights

- Securities Market

• Market capitalisation was $35.6 trillion at the end of August 2022, a decrease of 1 per cent from $35.9 trillion at the end of July 2022.
• The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first eight months of 2022 was $9.4 billion, an increase of 45 per cent when compared with $6.5 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of L&I Products for the first eight months of 2022 was $2.0 billion, an increase of 82 per cent when compared with $1.1 billion for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of Debt Securities for the first eight months of 2022 was $0.57 billion, an increase of 39 per cent when compared with $0.41 billion for the same period last year.

Maps.Me Partners With Monavate To Provide Up To 60 Million Active Users With Prepaid Cards Linked To Digital Wallets, Powered By Mastercard - Users Will Benefit From The Convenience Of Mastercard's Leading Payment Acceptance Network To Spend Globally And Earn Loyalty Rewards From The Maps.Me Ecosystem.

Date 06/09/2022

Maps.me, alongside Monavate, today announce a new prepaid card offering, powered by Mastercard. Today's consumers are digital, borderless, and proving to be increasingly open to using financial products that are integrated with apps that they use daily and trust. With a waiting list of more than 1 million users for the Maps.me digital wallet, this means all 60 million users of Maps.me could be able to make payments wherever Mastercard is accepted.

KPMG To launch Singapore’s First Embedded Finance Hub

Date 06/09/2022

• First ever Embedded Finance Hub to accelerate adoption of embedded finance in Singapore by providing incubation support to enterprises and financial institutions
• The Hub matches participants across the industry to guide and provide knowledge in the required specific areas of embedded finance

Elastisys And Avassa Team Up To Offer Flexible Application Management In Central And Edge Clouds

Date 06/09/2022

While many companies and organizations today have come a long way on their cloud journey, there are many applications that neither can nor should be migrated to a public cloud. For many companies, there are several business-critical use cases where applications need to run at the edge as well as in the central cloud, at the same time. Today, Elastisys, provider of a Kubernetes platform, and Avassa, provider of an edge-native application orchestration platform, announce that they enter a partnership to offer an easy-to-use, secure and efficient way to manage applications across distributed and centralized environments.

Major Market Participants Trade First Triparty Repo On ESG Bonds In China

Date 06/09/2022

The China Foreign Exchange Trading System (CFETS) and global post-trade provider Clearstream have entered an infrastructure cooperation to enable Chinese market participants to trade ESG (environmental, social, governance)-eligible triparty repo bonds. The repo transactions are facilitated by CFETS’s exclusive bond and FX trading platform in mainland China, while Clearstream acts as triparty repo agent, streamlining collateral management, settlement and custody.