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SGX To Report FY2019 Results On 31 July

Date 28/06/2019

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is reporting its results for Financial Year 2019 (FY2019) after the market closes on 31 July 2019.

Monetary Authority Of Singapore To Issue Up To Five Digital Bank Licences

Date 28/06/2019

New Chairs Of The UK Financial Conduct Authoritys Practitioner Panel And Markets Practitioner Panel Announced Today

Date 28/06/2019

The Financial Conduct Authority Chair, Charles Randell, has today announced the appointments of new Chairs for the FCAs independent Practitioner Panel and Markets Practitioner Panel.

Egbert Laege To Leave EEX Group At The End Of 2019

Date 28/06/2019

Dr Egbert Laege has asked the Supervisory Board of the European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) not to extend the existing employment relationship for personal reasons by amicable and mutual agreement by the end of the current term of office.

Capital Markets Malaysia: Sabah-Based Corporations And MSMEs To Benefit From The Malaysian Capital Market’s Wide Investment And Financing Opportunities

Date 28/06/2019

Capital Markets Malaysia, an affiliate of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), hosted the inaugural Invest Borneo Forum in Kota Kinabalu today to generate greater awareness of capital raising and investment opportunities in the Malaysian capital market within the Sabahan business community.

CCP12 Welcomes The BCBS Publication Entitled “Leverage Ratio Treatment Of Client Cleared Derivatives”

Date 28/06/2019

On 26 June 2019, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) released a publication entitled "Leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives" (BCBS  publication). In the publication the BCBS agrees to revise the leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives with the standardised approach to measuring counterparty credit risk exposures (SA-CCR) used for risk-based capital requirements. In effect, this will allow banks initial margin and variation margin received from a client to offset the replacement costs and potential future exposures for client cleared derivatives provided such initial and variation margin is appropriately segregated. This revision will take effect 1 January 2022.

Hong Kong Monetary Authority And Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission: Regulators Conclude Consultation On Annual Update To The List Of Financial Services Providers Under The Clearing Obligation For OTC Derivative Transactions

Date 28/06/2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today issued joint consultation conclusions on the annual update to the list of Financial Services Providers (FSP List) under the clearing obligation for OTC derivative transactions.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Holds A Seminar On Pre-IPO Restructuring For Key Persons

Date 28/06/2019

On June 27 in Shenzhen, SZSE held a seminar on pre-IPO restructuring targeting the key persons of enterprises. 32 de facto controllers, chairmen and general managers from 27 pre-IPO enterprises attended the seminar. The seminar is a new way of listing cultivation carried out by SZSE and a concrete move to provide better targeted services. It aims to help the core decision-making level of enterprises learn the latest development trends of the capital market and enhance their awareness of complying with standards of the capital market, so as to lay a solid foundation for them before entering the capital market.

Capital Markets Face Significant Challenges In Analysing Data Stored Within Enterprise Blockchains, Says TABB Group - Firms Using Blockchain Proof-Of-Concepts Often Conduct Analytics Off, Not On-Chain, After Extracting Data From Its Enterprise Blockchain

Date 28/06/2019

With blockchain use cases growing and evidence of live implementations, TABB Group believed it was time to ask: Are capital markets firms prepared for a blockchain world, where data, the lifeblood of capital markets, is literally locked up in a new data paradigm?  

European Flexible Packaging Specialist Chooses SIX For IPO

Date 28/06/2019

Today, SIX recorded its fourth listing for 2019. The shares of Aluflexpack AG (ticker "AFP") were traded on the Swiss stock exchange for the first time. At an opening price of CHF 22.10, the market capitalization was CHF 382 million.