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Qontigo Launches First EU-Compliant Climate Benchmark Indices
July 2, 2020--July 2, 2020--STOXX PAB and STOXX CTB Index families align with EU Regulatory objectives to reduce global warming and decarbonize
Qontigo announced today the launch of two new families of Climate Indices: the STOXX Paris-Aligned Benchmark (PAB) Indices and the STOXX Climate Transition Benchmark (CTB) Indices.
These indices help reduce exposure to climate-related financial risks and include companies that are well-positioned to provide solutions needed to transition to a low-carbon economy.
The new PAB Benchmarks and CTB Benchmarks track the performance of liquid securities from a selection of underlying STOXX Benchmark indices. Both comply with, and exceed, the CTB and PAB requirements as laid out by the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group (TEG) Final Report. The Climate Benchmark Regulation is part of the European Commission’s Action Plan on financing sustainable growth. The indices were constructed in collaboration with ISS ESG and Sustainalytics, two of the leading providers of sustainability data.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
FESE-Equity: the key to unlocking a sustainable economic recovery
July 2, 2020--The Covid-19 pandemic has had tremendous effects on our societies. The loss of lives and the health crisis in general has been devastating.
Secondary to this, as societies closed down to limit the spread of the disease, economic activity ground to a halt. As a result, we may be facing the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. This crisis also creates an opportunity to revisit and improve economic policy and create a better and greener future for Europe.
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A revamped CMU which balances between private and public markets is a must.
The proposed fund for EU IPOs should be pan- European and support both IPOs and secondary issuances, while contributing to relaunching IPOs.
To re-equitise the economy, a concrete proposal for the fund through public/private partnerships should be drafted.
The various stimulus packages should include specific bridge financing for viable SMEs/growth companies that were planning IPOs when the Covid crisis hit.
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Source: FESE (Federation of European Securities Exchanges)
One Of Bitcoin Most Renowned ETP Launches On Deutsche Boerse
July 1, 2020--Further enhances investor protection being centrally cleared (CCP)
The world-leading issuer of crypto ETPs, 21Shares AG, is officially listing its 21Shares Bitcoin ETP on the official market of Deutsche Börse's Xetra electronic venue on Thursday July 2nd 2020. 21Shares AG has been present in the German market since the dual listing of seven of its ETPs on Börse Stuttgart since January 2020.
ABTC -with a track record of over 1.5 years and charging a low 1.49% management fee-leaped institutional acceptance of the digital asset industry forward by being the first ETP listed on a regulated stock exchange (the largest Swiss stock exchange). Inspired by the pioneering work from the 21Shares team, other issuers followed suit with similar structures replicating the original Bitcoin ETP issued by 21Shares.
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Source: 21Shares
How index investing can drive sustainable finance transition
July 1, 2020-A well-informed decarbonisation trajectory calls for a quantitative investment approach via indices.
The Covid-19 crisis is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of human societies and our dependence on the balance of natural systems. It is true for health issues but also for biodiversity and climate issues.
Some observers even argue that climate change could foster the emergence of future pandemics, as global warming could facilitate the spread of viruses held in check by colder temperatures.
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Source: FT.com
How index investing can drive sustainable finance transition
July 1, 2020-A well-informed decarbonisation trajectory calls for a quantitative investment approach via indices.
The Covid-19 crisis is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of human societies and our dependence on the balance of natural systems. It is true for health issues but also for biodiversity and climate issues.
Some observers even argue that climate change could foster the emergence of future pandemics, as global warming could facilitate the spread of viruses held in check by colder temperatures.
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Source: FT.com
Deutsche Boerse Resolves Second Major Trading Outage of 2020
July 1, 2020--Stock exchanges from Frankfurt to Zagreb were down for hours
Bug-prone third-party software, now fixed, caused the halt
Deutsche Boerse AG's electronic trading system was unavailable due to a technical glitch throughout Wednesday morning, the exchange’s second major outage this year, disrupting derivatives and stock markets in several central and eastern European countries and hampering bond sales in the region.
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Source: bloomberg.com
Contagion can spread via cross-asset links, ECB study shows
July 1, 2020-- Research throws more light on the hidden risks of central clearing
Financial stress can move between central counterparties, clearing members and their clients more widely than previously thought, recent research suggests.
A study by two European Central Bank (ECB) market infrastructure specialists uses network theory to build a picture of the complex latticework of links between derivatives clearing participants in the eurozone. The research echoes the findings of earlier work in showing a concentration of risk among a few members.
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Source: risk.net
New Amundi ETF on Xetra: Sustainable investments in emerging markets
June 30, 2020--Since Tuesday a new Exchange Traded Fund issued by Amundi is tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
With the Amundi MSCI Emerging ESG Leaders UCITS ETF DR (C), investors invest in large and medium-sized companies from 26 emerging markets in accordance with sustainability criteria.
Companies with significant business activities in the fields of nuclear energy, tobacco, steam coal, alcohol, gambling, weapons and genetically modified organisms are excluded from the index. The weighting of a stock is limited to a maximum of five per cent. Dividends are reinvested. The annual costs amount to 0.18 per cent.
Name: Amundi MSCI Emerging ESG Leaders UCITS ETF DR(C)
Asset class: Equity ETF
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ECB-Euro money market statistics: third maintenance period 2020 Daily average borrowing turnover in the secured segment increased from €333 to €341 billion, with a weighted average overnight rate of -0.52% view more The Wirecard debacle calls for a rethink of EU, not just German, financial reporting supervision view more If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us
Source: Deutsche Börse
June 30, 2020--Daily average borrowing turnover in the unsecured segment decreased from €152 billion in the second maintenance period of 2020 to €145 billion in the third maintenance period of 2020.
Weighted average overnight rate on borrowing transactions in the unsecured segment decreased from-0.50% to-0.51% for the wholesale sector, and decreased from -0.53% to -0.54% for the interbank sector
Source: ECB
June 30, 2020--The spectacular collapse of Wirecard AG should serve as a wake-up call for the European Union on the need to pool the relevant supervisory mandates at EU level.
Wirecard AG, the Munich-based payments and financial services company that was a member of the DAX index of Germany's 30 leading blue chip stocks, collapsed spectacularly and filed for insolvency on June 25, 2020.
Among many lessons, this disaster has revealed major gaps in audit regulation and accounting enforcement in Germany and by extension in the European Union (EU). Like in other areas of financial supervision, having oversight over financial reporting in an integrated EU market only at the national level generates perverse incentives that impair supervisory effectiveness. The policy response to this challenge should be to pool the relevant supervisory mandates at the EU level.
Source: bruegel.org
