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Opening Remarks By His Excellency Taro Aso, Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Of Finance And Minister In Charge Of Finance BG2C 2020 August 24, 2020

Date 26/08/2020

Good morning, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. I am Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan and Finance Minister. Thank you very much for attending the Blockchain Global Governance Conference and FIN/SUM Blockchain & Business, today.

Australian Investors Adapt To Challenging Market Conditions

Date 26/08/2020

Over 9 million Australians hold investments outside their home and super, with 6.6 million directly holding exchange-listed investments, according to the ASX Australian Investor Study 2020 released today.

Is Satoshi’s Dream Still Relevant Today? - Closing Remarks By Himino Ryozo, Commissioner Of The Japan Financial Services Agency, At The Blockchain Global Governance Conference (BG2C) In Tokyo On August 24- 25, 2020

Date 26/08/2020

Good evening, everyone. Thank you for your active participation over the last two days.

ASIC Grants Industry-Wide Relief To Help Members Of Frozen Funds Make Hardship Withdrawals

Date 26/08/2020

ASIC today announced new relief measures for operators of managed funds to facilitate withdrawals by members facing financial hardship (hardship relief) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange To Suspend Trading In Six Cash-Settled Petroleum Product Futures Contracts

Date 26/08/2020

Trading in the following six contracts will be suspended from the night session commencing August 31, 2020.

・Platts Cash-settled Barge Gas Oil futures contract
・Platts Cash-settled Lorry Gas Oil futures contract
・Platts Cash-settled Barge Kerosene futures contract
・Platts Cash-settled Lorry Kerosene futures contract
・Cash-settled Barge Gasoline futures contract
・Cash-settled Lorry Gasoline futures contract

SGX Partners With Cassini Systems To Help Market Participants Prepare For Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR)- Exchange And Analytics Firm Offer Service For SGX Users To Manage And Comply With UMR

Date 26/08/2020

Singapore Exchange<https://www.sgx.com/> (SGX), the world's largest and fastest-growing Asian foreign exchange (FX) futures marketplace, and Cassini Systems<https://cassinisystems.com/>, the leading provider of pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives markets, have partnered to provide a free service for SGX market participants, to help them prepare to meet the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) requirements. Under the agreement, SGX will leverage Cassini's domain expertise to provide market users with complimentary analyses to determine their average aggregated notional amount (AANA), representing the gross value of open, non-centrally cleared derivatives positions.

Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks As Of Settlement Date August 14, 2020

Date 25/08/2020

At the end of the settlement date of August 14, 2020, short interest in 2,463 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 7,892,967,928 shares compared with 7,932,329,822 shares in 2,455 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 31, 2020. The mid-August short interest represents 3.04 days compared with 2.75 days for the prior reporting period.

NYSE Group Consolidated Short Interest Report

Date 25/08/2020

NYSE today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of August 14, 2020.

NZX: Connectivity Issue

Date 25/08/2020

Yesterday afternoon NZX experienced a volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack from offshore via its network service provider, which impacted NZX network connectivity. The systems impacted included NZX websites and the Markets Announcement Platform. As such, NZX decided to halt trading in its cash markets at approximately 15.57. A DDoS attack aims to disrupt service by saturating a network with significant volumes of internet traffic. The attack was able to be mitigated and connectivity has now been restored for NZX.

SEC Charges Super Micro And Former CFO In Connection With Widespread Accounting Violations

Date 25/08/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Super Micro Computer, Inc., a producer of computer servers, and its former CFO, Howard Hideshima, with prematurely recognizing revenue and understating expenses over a period of at least three years.