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How Countries Can Expand Access to Digital Financial Services
April 22, 2020--Digital financial services, powered by fintech, have the potential to lower costs by maximizing economies of scale, to increase the speed, security and transparency of transactions and to allow for more tailored financial services that serve the poor.
This report-Digital Financial Services-describes the tools of digital finance, the successful business models and policies for encouraging their growth. It explores risks and challenges of new types of services and the legal and regulatory frameworks needed for confronting them. Finally, it includes country experiences with promoting the expansion of digital financial services and the obstacles along the way.
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Source: World Bank
Investors pull record 250bnEUR from European funds
April 22, 2020--Pimco battered in March as bond funds suffer wave of redemptions
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Source: FT.com
European regulators ramp up scrutiny of investment fund liquidity
April 20, 2020--Heavy redemptions during coronavirus-induced sell-off spark concerns
Regulators across Europe are asking asset managers for reams of new information about their ability to meet investor redemptions as they seek to stave off a liquidity crunch sparked by the coronavirus market sell-off.
The French and German financial watchdogs have started demanding daily updates of investor withdrawals from open-ended funds, while the regulators of Europe's two largest fund hubs, Luxembourg and Ireland, have also stepped up their monitoring of the sector.
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Source: FT.com
ESMA Newsletter-No. 13
April 20, 2020--Welcome to the thirteenth edition of ESMA's Newsletter.
This month ESMA has launched its new page on COVID-19 as it continues to closely monitor the situation in view of the impact the virus is having on EU financial markets.
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Source: ESMA
ECB-Euro area monthly balance of payments: February 2020
April 20, 2020--In February 2020 the current account of the euro area recorded a surplus of €40 billion, compared with a surplus of €32 billion in January 2020.
In the 12-month period to February 2020, the current account recorded a surplus of €339 billion (2.8% of euro area GDP), compared with a surplus of €361 billion (3.1% of euro area GDP) in the 12 months to February 2019.
In the financial account, euro area residents made net acquisitions of foreign portfolio investment securities totalling €482 billion in the 12-month period to February 2020 (up from €87 billion in the 12 months to February 2019). Over the same period, non-residents made net acquisitions of euro area portfolio investment securities amounting to €508 billion (up from €23 billion).
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Source: ECB
ESMA exposes the shortcomings of Europe's non-financial reporting regulation
April 20, 2020--It appears that merely acknowledging concrete risks is enough to clear NFRD requirements, argues Filip Gregor
The European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) has published its report "“Enforcement and regulatory activities of European enforcers in 2019", which includes the results of its assessment and actions taken to ensure the correct implementation of the reporting requirements introduced by the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive.
The report's findings relate to a sample of 145 European issuers.
The report frequently mentioned shortcomings such as the lack of quantitative disclosure, objective targets and accompanying assessment of whether the issuer was meeting those targets. Similarly, they referred to insufficient or missing descriptions of due diligence processes-particularly in relation to human rights and social matters-and mentioned insufficient description of risks and disclosures on environmental and climate change-related matters.
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Source: responsible-investor.com
ESMA issues new Q&A on alternative performance measures in the context of COVID-19
April 17, 2020--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has issued a Q&A to provide guidance to issuers on the application of the ESMA Guidelines on Alternative Performance Measures (APM Guidelines) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Q&A published today
highlights the main principles of the APM Guidelines;
encourages issuers to use caution when adjusting Alternative
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Source: ESMA
Eurozone faces economic strains as government debt piles up
April 16, 2020--The European Central Bank's decision to buy almost €900bn of extra bonds this year has kept sovereign yields under control and helped stave off a rerun of the 2010-2012 eurozone debt crisis.
But as new IMF forecasts on Wednesday showed, the coronavirus crisis is propelling government debt in the...
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Source: FT.com
Unscheduled free-float adjustment of Isra Vision AG in SDAX and TecDAX
April 15, 2020--Changes will become effective on 20 April
On Wednesday, Qontigo's global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX and TecDAX indices.
Due to the takeover of Isra Vision AG (DE0005488100) by Atlas Copco AB the free float of Isra Vision AG changed by more than 10 percentage points.
According to the Guide to the DAX Equity Indices, section 5.1.4., the company's free float will be adjusted in the indices from the current 56.01 percent to 23.69 percent.
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Source: Xetra
New iShares ETF on Xetra: emerging market corporate bonds
March 11, 2020--Since Wednesday, a new Exchange Traded Fund of iShares has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
With the iShares J.P. Morgan $ EM Corp Bond UCITS ETF EUR Hedged (Acc), investors can participate in the performance of US dollar-denominated corporate bonds and quasi-government bonds from emerging markets such as China, Brazil and India.
The investment universe includes both bonds with investment grade status and high yield bonds. The allocation of income is reinvested. In addition, investors are hedged against potential exchange rate risks against the euro.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Markets
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