Voluntary disclosure of sovereign exposures
Posted in: News
Nov
15
2019
Following feedback received to The regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures – discussion paper, published in December 2017, the Committee is seeking views on three Pillar 3 templates for the disclosure of banks’ sovereign exposures… https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d485.htm
Nov
15
2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published three sets of technical advice to the European Commission… https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/esma-advises-ec-supervisory-regime-third-country-ccps
Tagged width: capital markets, esma
Nov
15
2019
Custody bank Northern Trust is testing the trading of fractionalized bonds on a blockchain… https://www.coindesk.com/northern-trust-testing-fractionlized-bonds-on-blockchain
Tagged width: blockchain, capital markets
Working group on euro risk-free rates issues high level recommendations for fallback provisions in contracts referencing EURIBOR
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Nov
06
2019
Today, the private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has published a set of recommendations for fallback provisions in contracts… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2019/html/ecb.pr191106~66739f5e39.en.html
Nov
06
2019
ESMA launches this consultation paper in the context of the review it is obliged to perform under MiFID II… https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/mifid-ii-esma-consults-position-limits-in-commodity-derivatives
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Nov
06
2019
La Banca d’Italia organizza – nell’ambito delle attività di cooperazione tecnica internazionale – il workshop “Customer protection in the banking sector – the role of Banca d’Italia”… https://www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/workshop-customer-protection-in-the-banking-sector-the-role-of-banca-d-italia/?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=102
Tagged width: banking
Nov
06
2019
More than six months after the China National Development and Reform Commission proposed to categorize bitcoin mining as an industry to be phased out from the country, it appears the agency has now scrapped that plan…
Tagged width: blockchain, fintech
Nov
01
2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today further technical details for the reporting of Securities Financing Transactions… https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/esma-publishes-validation-rules-and-xml-schemas-sftr-reporting
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Nov
01
2019
On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper… https://news.bitcoin.com/how-bitcoins-peer-to-peer-cash-system-was-revealed-11-years-ago/
Tagged width: blockchain, fintech
New President of the European Central Bank
Posted in: News
Nov
01
2019
Christine Lagarde, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, has today taken up her duties as President of the European Central Bank… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2019/html/ecb.pr191101~8f1889db97.en.html
