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ESMA-ESAs-main risks to EU financial market stability have intensified
May 5, 2015--Summary
The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published its fifth Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System. Overall, the report found that in the past six months, risks affecting the EU financial system have not changed in substance, but have further intensified.
The EU's economic performance improved slightly in early 2015, however the financial sector in general continues to be affected by a combination of factors such as low investment demand, economic uncertainty in the Eurozone and its neighbouring countries, a global economic slow-down and a low-interest rate environment.
view the Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System.
Source: ESMA
EC-Spring 2015 Economic Forecast: Tailwinds support the recovery
May 5, 2015--Economic growth in the European Union is benefitting from positive economic tailwinds. According to the European Commission's Spring 2015 Economic Forecast, these short-term factors are boosting an otherwise mild cyclical upswing in the EU.
Europe's economies are benefitting from many supporting factors at once. Oil prices remain relatively low, global growth is steady, the euro has continued to depreciate, and economic policies in the EU are supportive.
On the monetary side, quantitative easing by the European Central Bank is having a significant impact on financial markets, contributing to lower interest rates and expectations of improving credit conditions. With the overall fiscal stance in the EU broadly neutral-neither tightening nor loosening-fiscal policy is also accommodating growth. Over time, the pursuit of structural reforms and the Investment Plan for Europe should also bear fruit.
As a result, real GDP in 2015 is now expected to rise by 1.8 % in the EU and by 1.5 % in the euro area, respectively 0.1 and 0.2 percentage points higher than projected three months ago. For 2016, the Commission forecasts growth of 2.1 % in the EU and of 1.9 % in the euro area.
view the European Economic Forecast 2015
Source: European Commission
BlackRock leads funds in EU lobbying
May 4, 2015--BlackRock spent between €1.2m and €1.5m ($1.3m-$1.7m) on lobbying Brussels last year, shelling out more than US investment bank Goldman Sachs and surpassing the spend of any other asset manager.
Figures from the EU Transparency Register show that BlackRock's estimated lobbying expenditure quadrupled in 2014 compared with the previous year...
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Source: FT.com
Overseas buying of U.K. debt sets record
May 4, 2015--Foreign purchases of U.K. government debt surged to a £28.2 billion in March, the largest inbound flow of funds since records were first kept in 1982
Appetite for this debt comes despite a warning from the Bank of England that the current-account deficit might "trigger a deterioration in market sentiment towards the United Kingdom" if the economy goes into a slump.
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Soure: SmartBrief
ECB publishes its Euro Money Market Study 2014
April 30, 2015--Euro money markets are in a healing phase following the deterioration identified in the 2012 study. Total turnover across money market segments has been rising since 2012.
This improvement in market functioning over the past two years is underpinned by the stabilisation in risk budgets that market participants could exploit for trading activity in 2013, and by further improvement in the course of 2014.
view the Euro Money Market Study 2014
Source: ECB
New ETF Listing on Euronext
April 30, 2015--Euronext is pleased to announce that AMUNDI will list 1 new ETF on 05/05/2015:
ISIN: FR0012647451
ETF Trading name: AMUNDI FRN USD
ETF Symbol: AFLT
Venue: Euronext Paris
Underlying index: Markit iBoxx USD Liquid FRN IG
TER (%): 0,18
Euronext now offers 634 ETFs listed on the European markets.
Source: Euronext
Monetary developments in the euro area
April 29, 2015--The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 4.6% in March 2015, from 4.0% in February 2015.1
The three-month average of the annual growth rates of M3 in the
period from January 2015 to March 2015 increased to 4.1%, from 3.8% in the period from December 2014 to February 2015.
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Source: ECB
Draghi's ECB Seen Needing Yellen Support as Investors Hoard Debt
April 29, 2015--Mario Draghi might need Janet Yellen to bail him out in the bond market.
Ever since the European Central Bank president's 1.1 trillion-euro ($1.2 trillion) asset-purchase program kicked off last month, he and his colleagues have been beating back suggestions there won’t be enough sovereign debt to buy.
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Source: Bloomberg
Christian Kronseder joins STOXX as COO
April 29, 2015--STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that Christian Kronseder will join the company as chief operating officer (COO), as of May 1st, 2015.
"Christian has extensive experience when it comes to platforms and optimized operations in index processing environments, which will be of great value to STOXX", said Holger Wohlenberg, chairman of the STOXX supervisory board.
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Source: STOXX
Coinbase opens bitcoin exchange in UK
April 28, 2015--Bitcoin payment processor Coinbase opened an exchange and online wallet service in the UK on Tuesday, allowing people to convert sterling into bitcoin.
Expanding to the UK will make it easier to access bitcoin in one of the financial capitals of the world, San Francisco-based Coinbase said in a blog on its website.
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