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Indxx Integrates ESG Data from Minerva Analytics into Index Solutions
March 18, 2022--Indxxis pleased to announce their partnership with Minerva Analytics, Europe's independent proxy voting, ESG and stewardship solution. The collaboration allows Indxx to utilize Minerva's environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and research todevelop custom ESG index solutions to meet the growing and global demand for responsible passive investing.
Minerva's offerings draw on the leading regulatory ESG indicators including TCFD, UNGlobal Compact, OECD MNE Guidelines the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Their framework measures both positive and negative impacts of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on portfolios and seamlessly integrates with stewardship, voting and stock-lending strategies.
EU financial regulators warn consumers on the risks of crypto-assets
March 17, 2022--The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA and EIOPA-the ESAs) today warn consumers that many crypto-assets are highly risky and speculative. The ESAs set out key steps consumers can take to ensure they make informed decisions.
This warning comes in the context of growing consumer activity and interest in crypto-assets and the aggressive promotion of those assets and related products to the public, including through social media.
In their warning, the ESAs highlight that these assets are not suited for most retail consumers as an investment or as a means of payment or exchange, as consumers:
face the very real possibility of losing all their invested money if they buy these assets;
should be alert to the risks of misleading advertisements, including via social media and influencers; and
should be particularly wary of promised fast or high returns, especially those that look too good to be true.
LMAX Group partners with SIX to launch 24/7 traded crypto-asset futures
March 17, 2022--The launch will initially include centrally cleared USD settled Bitcoin and Ethereum futures, with a launch date expected in Q3, subject to regulatory approval.
FX and cryptocurrency exchange operator LMAX Group has partnered with SIX to launch centrally cleared crypto-asset futures.
Expected in Q3 2022, subject to regulatory approval, the launch will initially include centrally cleared USD settled Bitcoin and Ethereum futures.
Trading will occur 23 hours, five days a week, with plans for the full product roll out to be extended to 24/7 trading.
BlackRock to move 1.4bn Euro corporate bond ETF to ESG index
March 16, 2022--The iShares € Corp Bond ex-Financials Ucits ETF will switch in May, subject to shareholder approval
BlackRock plans to switch a €1.4bn iShares corporate bond exchange traded fund to an environmental, social and governance index in response to investor demand.
The world's largest asset manager has asked shareholders of its Dublin-domiciled iShares € Corp Bond ex-Financials Ucits ETF to approve an index change to the Bloomberg MSCI Euro Corporate ex Financials Sustainable SRI at an extraordinary general meeting on March 25.
ESMA published its assessment and recommendations on the EC's MiFIR review proposal
March 15, 2022--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, has published its assessment of the main elements on the European Commission's (EC) MiFIR review proposal.
The letter focuses on the establishment of the consolidated tape provider (CTP) but also includes elements such as equity and non-equity transparency, reporting and payment for order flow.
ESMA provides its technical comments on a number of topics included in the proposal and recommends to co-legislators to:
allow for more time for running the selection process of the CTP;
split the selection procedure from the authorisation process;
New crypto ETN from CoinShares on XetraAccess to the cryptocurrency Cardano with staking rewards
March 11, 2022--Since Friday, another crypto ETN issued by CoinShares is tradable on Xetra and via Börse Frankfurt.
The new exchange-traded note (ETN) from CoinShares gives investors access to the cryptocurrency Cardano. The ETN is physically backed by the cryptocurrency and is centrally cleared in trading by Deutsche Börse Group's central counterparty, Eurex Clearing AG.
In addition, the ETN offers investors the opportunity to participate in further returns. For this purpose, the cryptocurrency Cardano is deposited on the blockchain for the validation of transactions to receive a reward in the corresponding cryptocurrency in return. For the CoinShares Physical Staked Cardano, this reward is 3 per cent per annum. In addition, CoinShares has reduced the management fee to 0.0 per cent per annum.
Name: CoinShares Physical Staked Cardano
Asset class: ETN
ISIN: GB00BNRRF659
ECB-Euro area securities issues statistics: January 2022
March 10, 2022-The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents was 4.9% in January 2022, compared with 5.0% in December 2021.
For the outstanding amount of listed shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 1.7% in January 2022, compared with 1.9% in December 2021.
Debt securities
New issuances of debt securities by euro area residents totalled EUR 796.4 billion in January 2022. Redemptions amounted to EUR 667.4 billion and hence net issues to EUR 129.0 billion. The annual growth rate of outstanding debt securities issued by euro area residents was 4.9% in January 2022, compared with 5.0% in December 2021.
Global X crypto ETNs tradable on Xetra for the first time
March 9, 2022--Physically backed ETNs track performance of Bitcoin and Ethereum
Since Wednesday, two crypto ETNs issued by Global X Digital Assets Issuer Limited have been tradable on Xetra for the first time.
With the two exchange-traded notes (ETNs) from Global X, investors participate in the performance of the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The products are physically collateralised by the respective cryptocurrency and are centrally cleared in trading by Deutsche Börse Group's central counterparty, Eurex Clearing AG. Trading in the two crypto ETNs on Xetra takes place in the trading currency US dollar.
Name: Global XBitcoin ETN
Asset class: ETN
ISIN: GB00BLBDZV05
Management fee: 0.65 per cent
New Active ETFs from J.P. Morgan on Xetra: access to Chinese Bonds with short maturities
March 8, 2022--Two new exchange-traded funds issued by J.P. Morgan Asset Management have been tradable on Xetra and via Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday.
The JPM RMB Ultra-Short Income UCITS ETF invests in CNY and CNH denominated debt instruments with low volatility and short maturity.
The Chinese bonds are short-term fixed and floating rate corporate and government bonds with an investment grade rating. As a rule, the actively managed ETF invests up to 20 per cent in debt instruments issued by companies from the banking sector.
Investors can choose between a distributing and an accumulating share class.
Name: JPM RMB Ultra-Short Income UCITS ETF
Asset class: Bond ETF
The week inflation became entrenched
March 8, 2022--The events that have unfolded since 24 February have solved one dispute: inflation is no longer temporary.
There are four reasons to expect sustained inflationary pressures and one mitigating factor.
The obvious one is energy prices, with both crude oil and gas prices jumping to very high levels at the start of the war in Ukraine.
With sanctions now imposed, the European Union will need to reduce gas imports from Russia. Some of it will have to be dealt with by reducing demand for gas altogether and some by diverting demand elsewhere.
To the extent that this cannot happen in the next 12 months or so the EU remains dependent on Russia, in which case it is inevitable that gas becomes a tool for retaliation. For as long as these sanctions are in place, the EU will be vulnerable and face a correspondingly heavy energy bill.
