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The economic effects of COVID-19 around the world

April 3, 2020--Latest developments:
More than 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week.
The Asian Development Bank warns the global cost of the outbreak might reach $4.1 trillion.
More than 900,000 people have lost their jobs in Spain amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Half of jobs in Africa are at risk due to the pandemic

With more than 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, businesses are coping with lost revenue and disrupted supply chains as factory shutdowns and quarantine measures spread across the globe, restricting movement and business activity.

Here are a few ways the outbreak is sending ripples around the world.

Global financial shocks
As the world grapples with the coronavirus, the economic impact is mounting-with the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors having a conference call on 23 March to discuss how to address the emergency.

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Source: World Economic Forum (WEF)


March 2020 Report Into Cryptocurrency Exchanges (From CryptoCompare)

April 3, 2020--13 March Market Crash Saw Highest Daily Volumes Ever
The massive market crash on March 12-13 saw daily volumes hit $75.9bn in a single day (13 March)-the single greatest daily volume recorded in cryptoasset history.
Most of this figure came from lower-tier exchanges ($54.3bn), with volume from Top Tier exchanges totalling $21.6bn (28.5%)-one of the highest Top-Tier volumes recorded.

Spot Volumes Have Surged in Q1 2020

Since December 2019, volumes from Top-Tier exchanges have continued to increase month on month. In March, volume from many of the largest Top Tier exchanges increased 35% on average (vs February).

Derivatives Volumes Hit All-Time-High in March 2020

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Source: blog.bitmex.com


Cboe Global Markets Reports March 2020 Trading Volume

April 3, 2020--All business lines post year-over-year increases: Options ADV up 69%, Futures up 35%, U.S. Equities up 129%, European Equities up 29% and Global FX up 43%
Cboe's four options exchanges combined set a new monthly ADV record with nearly 12 million contracts traded
S&P 500 Index (SPX) options set a new monthly total volume record with more than 43.4 million contracts traded.

Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) options and futures ADV up 112% and 36% year-over-year, respectively
Cboe FX set a new monthly ADNV record with nearly $55 billion in notional value

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Source: Cboe Global Markets, Inc


RI Survey: Pandemic could be tipping point for ESG

Poll reveals a fascinating array of reactions to the Covid-19 crisis
The coronavirus pandemic could prove a tipping point for ESG, according to roughly two-thirds of the respondents to Responsible Investor's recent survey on the outbreak and ESG.

And more than three-quarters say it helps the case for long-termism-although a narrow majority said no lessons have been learnt from the global financial crisis.

They are some of the top line findings of the snap survey, which ran last week as the sustainability investment field started to absorb the full implications of the crisis.

The survey was in a simple yes/no format, so there's limited scope for detailed interpretation-but it gives a sense of ESG market sentiment.

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Source: responsible-investor.com


First-of-a-kind ocean debt swap proves huge success

March 30, 2020--Innovative deal structure can now hit the capital markets with benchmark blue bonds

A pioneering $21.6m (€19.3m) sovereign debt restructuring deal to finance marine conservation in the Seychelles has met its impact targets with a third of the Seychelles' ocean now designated as 'protected'.

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Source: responsible-investor.com


The World Federation of Exchanges warns against short-selling bans

March 30, 2020--The World Federation of Exchanges ("WFE"), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has today issued a statement, criticising recent bans on short-selling as damaging to markets and failing to achieve their desired effect. WFE CEO Nandini Sukumar said:
"Banning short-selling interferes with price formation, thereby increasing uncertainty.

That can only artificially amplify volatility and probability of default, the opposite effect to that claimed, and hampers the ability of markets to serve the real economy. It is not-and never has been -true that bans have any other, positive effect on market activity or price levels."

Unlike circuit breakers and other safeguards put in place by exchanges to slow markets down in times of stress, short-selling bans inhibit orderly markets rather than promote them.

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Source: world-exchanges.org


OECD updates G20 summit on outlook for global economy

March 27, 2020--Efforts to contain virus and save lives should be intensified, and governments should plan stronger, more coordinated measures to absorb growing economic blow
Increasingly stringent containment measures needed to slow the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) will necessarily lead to significant short-term declines in GDP for many major economies, according to new OECD projections.

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, in preparation to the G20 Virtual Summit that took place yesterday, unveiled the latest OECD estimates showing that the lockdown will directly affect sectors amounting to up to one third of GDP in the major economies. For each month of containment, there will be a loss of 2 percentage points in annual GDP growth. The tourism sector alone faces an output decrease as high as 70%. Many economies will fall into recession. This is unavoidable, as we need to continue fighting the pandemic, while at the same time putting all the efforts to be able to restore economic normality as fast as possible.

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Source: OECD


ETFGI's report shows currency hedged ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$3.10 billion during February 2020

March 24, 2020--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that currency hedged ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$3.10billion during February bringing year to date net inflows to US$7.17 billion.

Total assets invested in currency hedged ETFs and ETPs decreased by 2.2% from US$181 billion to US$177 billion, with a 5-year CAGR of 21.3%, according to ETFGI's February 2020 Currency hedged ETFs and ETPs industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service.  (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

Highlights
Currency hedged ETFs/ETPs gathered net inflows of $3.01 billion during February.view more

Source: etfgi.com


The Global Green Finance Index 5

March 24, 2020--March 24, 2020-The fifth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI 5) was published on 24 March 2020. GGFI 5 provides evaluations of the depth and quality of the green finance offerings of 67 major financial centres around the world. The GGFI serves as a valuable reference into the development of green finance for policy and investment decision-makers.
The Results Of GGFI 5 Include:
There is growing confidence in the development of green finance across all regions. Ratings of green finance rose in almost all centres for both depth and quality.

All centres received a higher rating for depth than in GGFI 4; and all but five centres received a higher rating in quality.

Western Europe continues to lead the world's centres in green finance depth and quality, taking nine of the top ten places in depth and the top 12 places in quality. This reflects the continuing work being undertaken by European financial institutions, central banks, regulators, and the European Union to embed sustainability in their regulatory work.

The Asia/Pacific region has again fallen back slightly in this edition.

Amsterdam retained its leading position in the depth index, with Luxembourg still in second place.

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view the The Global Green Finance Index 5 report

Source: zyen.com


IOSCO report examines how existing regulatory principles could apply to stablecoins

March 23, 2020--The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions today published a report identifying the possible implications of global stablecoin initiatives for securities markets regulators.
The report entitled Global Stablecoin Initiatives (hereinafter "the Report") examines the regulatory issues arising from the use of global stablecoins and explores how existing IOSCO Principles and Standards could apply to these arrangements.

IOSCO,s Fintech Network prepared the Report as part of an effort to evaluate global stablecoin proposals from a securities market regulator's The Report finds that, depending on its structure, a global stablecoin may fall within securities market regulatory frameworks. Whether IOSCO Principles and Standards are relevant to stablecoins depends on the specific design of each initiative and its legal and regulatory characteristics and features.

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Source: IOSCO


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