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European Commission launches the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum
February 1, 2018--The Commission launched today the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum with the support of the European Parliament, represented by Jakob von Weizsäcker responsible for the recent report on virtual currencies.
The Blockchain Observatory and Forum will highlight key developments of the blockchain technology, promote European actors and reinforce European engagement with multiple stakeholders involved in blockchain activities.
Blockchain technologies, which store blocks of information that are distributed across the network, are seen as a major breakthrough, as they bring about high levels of traceability and security in economic transactions online. They are expected to impact digital services and transform business models in a wide range of areas, such as healthcare, insurance, finance, energy, logistics, intellectual property rights management or government services.
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Source: Europa
The Spanish stock exchange traded 50.8 billion euro in January
February 1, 2018--Up 6.6% from December 2017 and the best month since October
The number of trades in January were up 28.7% from the preceding month
The Spanish Stock Exchange traded €50.8 billion in January, up 6.6% from December 2017and the best month since October. The number of trades came in at 4.2 million in January, up 28.7% from the preceding month.
Trading of Financial Derivatives increased 3.5% year-on year in January. There was growth in IBEX 35 futures, Mini IBEX 35 Futures, IBEX 35 Options and Futures on Stocks. The open interest in these contracts increased 16%, 23%, 38% and 34% respectively.
As regards Fixed Income it is worth mentioning the new issues admitted to MARF in January, which reached €2.5 billion, up 14.8% year-on-year.
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Source: BME (Bolsas y Mercados Españoles
New partnership of industry and academia explores potential of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
February 1, 2018--Post-trade services provider Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has entered a collaborative research partnership with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg.
Over the next four years, a joint research project will explore the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in process automation in order to simplify and standardize requirements analysis.
The project aims to eventually render processes more cost-and time-efficient. Requirements state the necessary capabilities and characteristics of a system in order for it to have value for its users. This strategic initiative, run in collaboration with escent, a consulting firm specialized in business analysis and requirements engineering, looks to automate the laborious analysis tasks present in Clearstream's IT system requirements engineering practices.
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Source: Deutsche Börse Group
State Street Global Advisors announces the launch of the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF
February 1, 2018--State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today announced the launch of the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF.
Effective today, the fund is available unhedged on the Xetra exchange. It will launch on the London Stock Exchange on January 30 and on Borsa Italiana later this year. Share classes hedged to USD, Euro, GB sterling and the Swiss franc will be available in the coming weeks.
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Source: State Street Corporation
EBA launches 2018 EU-wide stress test exercise
January 31, 2018--The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today its 2018 EU-wide stress test and released the macroeconomic scenarios. The adverse scenario implies a deviation of EU GDP from its baseline level by 8.3% in 2020, resulting in the most severe scenario to date.
The EBA expects to publish the results of the exercise by 2 November 2018.
Key features of the exercise
The stress test is designed to provide supervisors, banks and other market participants with a common analytical framework to consistently compare and assess the resilience of EU banks to economic shocks. For the first time, it incorporates IFRS 9 accounting standards. No pass-fail threshold has been included as the results of the exercise are designed to serve as an input to the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP).
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Source: EBA
UK parliament committee calls for immediate publication of leaked Brexit report
January 31, 2018--Britain's government should immediately publish a leaked report about the economic costs of leaving the European Union, the lower house of parliament's Treasury Committee said Wednesday.
Earlier Wednesday the government said it would allow lawmakers to see the report "on a strictly confidential basis" if parliament voted in favor.
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Source: The Express Tribune
FESE-European Capital Markets Fact Sheet
January 30, 3028-The European Capital Markets Fact Sheet, based on FESE's monthly statistics, highlights the main developments in the European capital markets in a simple to read format.
This first edition focuses on a comparison between years 2016 and 2017 and Q3-Q4 of year 2017.
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Source: FESE (The Federation of European Securities Exchanges)
Irish Stock Exchange sale offers 'pivot towards Europe'
January 30, 2018--The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) is pivoting to Europe after its sale to Euronext, as the bourse looks to ride out-and even benefit from-the UK's exit from the EU.
The €137m deal, excluding cash and regulatory capital, will establish Dublin as the capital markets group's hub for the listing of debt securities,...view more
Source: FT.com
Amundi ETF Trend Report
January 30, 2018--The European ETF market set a new record in 2017 with subscriptions reaching 94 bn€. Two very different trends can be observed, however, depending on the asset class: on the one hand equities, which account for nearly 70% of flows, with a fairly broad distribution of the inflows; and on the other, the bonds for which investors have focused on a few categories.
On the equity side Europe is the winner, with more than a third of the net new assets. The confirmation of the return of GDP growth and the easing of uncertainty on the future of the Eurozone were the main drivers of this movement. Global equities, the United States and emerging markets also benefited from 2017’s record flows, as they all garnered more than 10 bn€ in subscriptions.
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Source: Amundi
Task force urges eurozone rule change for common securities
January 29, 2018--Task force urges eurozone rule change for common securities. A central bank task force has said the eurozone's financial rules need to change if a mooted and politically charged "safe asset" to strengthen the single currency area's banking system is to work.
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Source: FT.com