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OECD: Significant Progress Made In Fighting Tax Evasion And Illicit Financial Flows In Africa, But Further Efforts Needed To Support Domestic Revenue Mobilisation

Date 25/06/2020

Tax Transparency in Africa 2020, launched today as part of the Africa Initiative, depicts the state of play for 32 African Union Member States, members of the Initiative and three non-members. It shows the progress achieved on the two cornerstones of the Initiative: (i) raising political awareness and commitment, and (ii) developing capacities in tax transparency and exchange of information (EOI). Tax transparency and EOI have a crucial role to play in helping African governments stem illicit financial flows (IFFs) and increase domestic revenue mobilisation.

The Principality Of Monaco Selects Tokeny Solutions As Its Tokenization Platform

Date 25/06/2020

The government of Monaco has formalized a Memorandum of Understanding with Tokeny Solutions as its technology provider to support the issuance of tokenized financial instruments.

State Street Global Markets: Investor Confidence Increased In June By 21.3 Points To 94.3

Date 25/06/2020

State Street Global Markets today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for June 2020.

Monetary Authority Of Singapore Consults On Environmental Risk Management Guidelines For Financial Institutions

Date 25/06/2020

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued a set of three consultation papers on its proposed Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management (Guidelines) for banks, insurers and asset managers. The Guidelines aim to enhance financial institutions’ (FI) resilience to environmental risk, and strengthen the financial sector’s role in supporting the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy, in Singapore and in the region. This is part of MAS’ Green Finance Action Plan to become a leading global centre for green finance.  

ETFGI Reports Assets Invested In Environmental, Social, And Governance (ESG) ETFs And ETPs Listed Globally Reached A New Record Of US$82 Billion At The End Of May 2020

Date 25/06/2020

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$4.33 billion during May, bringing year-to-date net inflows to US$28.53 billion which is significantly more than the US$7.19 billion gathered at this point last year. Total assets invested in ESG ETFs and ETPs increased by 10.4% from US$74.03 billion at the end of April 2020 to  reach a new record of US$82 billion at the end of May, according to ETFGI’s May 2020 ETF and ETP ESG industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service.  (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.) 

KDPW Reduces LEI Issuance And Renewal Fees

Date 25/06/2020

The fees for the issuance and renewal of LEIs charged by KDPW will be reduced as of 1 July 2020. The fee reductions are up to 26%. KDPW is the only institution in Poland authorised to issue LEIs in the Global LEI System.

GPW Awards 2019 Capital Market Leaders

Date 25/06/2020

• The Stock Market Review Gala 2019 took place at the head office of the Warsaw Stock Exchange
• GPW presented awards for performance and support for the development of the Polish capital market in 2019

Swiss Household Appliances Giant V-ZUG Becomes Second Company Listing In 2020 For SIX

Date 25/06/2020

Today, V-ZUG Holding AG (Ticker "VZUG") listed its shares on the Swiss stock exchange. The opening price was CHF 72.00 per share, resulting in a market capitalization of CHF 463 million.

Quant Insight Launches Quant Analytics Platform On OpenFin

Date 25/06/2020

Quant Insight (Qi), the macro data analytics firm that applies innovative quantitative techniques to financial markets, today announced the firm has launched their desktop application on OpenFin, the operating system of finance. 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security SU26231RMFS9

Date 25/06/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 25.06.2020, 10-08 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 55.966) and initial margins (up to 50 %) for the security SU26231RMFS9 were changed. New values are available here