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FSB Chair Updates Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors On The FSB’s Key Priorities For 2021

Date 25/02/2021

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a letter from its Chair Randal K. Quarles to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of their virtual meeting on 26 February.
ESMA Consults On Methodology To Calculate A Benchmark In Exceptional Circumstances

Date 25/02/2021

The European Securities and Markets Authority, the EU’s securities markets regulator, has launched a consultation on draft guidelines detailing the obligations applicable to administrators that use a methodology to calculate a benchmark in exceptional circumstances under the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR).
Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security RU000A1006G4

Date 25/02/2021

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 25.02.2021, 15-14 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 121.27) and initial margins (up to 20 %) for the security RU000A1006G4 were changed. New values are available here
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Makes Senior Appointments To Drive Its Transformation

Date 25/02/2021

As part of its transformation programme to build a data-led regulator able to make fast and effective decisions, the FCA announced a restructure in December. This brought together two supervision divisions with the FCA’s policy and competition functions. Following rigorous and wide-ranging recruitment processes, Nikhil Rathi, Chief Executive of the FCA since October, has now made four further appointments to the FCA’s executive team:

- Stephanie Cohen will be the FCA’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).
- Jessica Rusu will join the FCA’s as its first Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer (CDIIO).
- Sarah Pritchard will become Executive Director, Markets.
- Emily Shepperd will take up the newly created role of Executive Director, Authorisations.
International Success Of KDPW IT Developers

Date 25/02/2021

Buy-in reporting messages developed by KDPW have been successfully approved by ISO20022. As the first messages ever to be registered, they set the buy-in reporting standard, developed from scratch on the initiative of KDPW in ISO20022. The standard defined by KDPW and approved by ISO20022 will apply internationally.

Single Rulebook Launches New Functionality To Switch Between UK And EU Regulation

Date 25/02/2021

Single Rulebook, a leading and integrated software platform for the management of regulatory rules, today announced that it has launched new functionality and tools to enable clients to compare and work effectively across existing EU regulations such as EMIR and MiFID II and the new UK Handbook, published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
LGX Expands To Welcome Climate-Aligned Issuers

Date 25/02/2021

In the presence of Climate Bonds Initiative’s CEO Sean Kidney, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) today announced the latest development of the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX): a brand-new section of LGX dedicated to Climate-Aligned Issuers (CAI), built on Climate Bonds Initiative’s issuer screening and research. As the world’s leading platform for sustainable finance, LGX is now adding to its labelled bonds section a new section dedicated to issuers of debt securities that are active in climate-aligned sectors such as clean energy, low-carbon transport and sustainable land use, but that may not have issued bonds in the labelled format.
UK Financial Conduct Authority Censures Premier FX For Payment Rule Breaches

Date 25/02/2021

The FCA has publicly censured Premier FX Limited (Premier FX) for failing to safeguard its customers’ money and for misuse of its payment accounts under the Payments Services Regulations. In doing so, Premier FX seriously misled its customers about the services it was authorised to provide and how it held customers’ money.
Horizon Wins Best Sell-Side EMS At TradingTech Insight Europe Awards 2021

Date 25/02/2021

Horizon Software (Horizon), the world’s leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, announced today that it has won Best Sell-Side EMS at the TradingTech Insight Europe Awards 2021.
DIFC Announced Proposed Amendments To The Employment Law, Data Protection Law And Insolvency Law For Public Consultation

Date 25/02/2021

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading international financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, has proposed the enactment of legislation to enhance the regulatory framework in the DIFC, bringing it in line with international best practice. In doing so, DIFC Authority has taken into account specific factors relating to the DIFC and the need to provide an appropriate regulatory environment for businesses to operate in or from the Centre.