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CryptoCompare Launches Real-time Market Data Streaming Product

March 11, 2020--Leading cryptoasset data provider CryptoCompare has launched a real-time market data streaming product that can be accessed via a WebSocket connection.

The new product, according to a press release, offers real-time trade, ticker, volume, and level 2 orderbook data, along with OHLC candles and a subscription to the CryptoCompare Aggregate Index (CCAGGG).

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Source: cryptoglobe.com


How's Life? reveals improvements in well-being but persistent inequalities

March 9, 2020--Life has generally improved for many people in OECD countries over the past 10 years but inequalities persist and insecurity, despair and disconnection affect significant parts of the population, according to a new report.

OECD's latest How's Life? report says household disposable income per capita has risen in more than half of OECD countries since 2010. Employment rates are up by nearly 5 percentage points on average for people aged 25-64 (today, almost eight in ten adults are in paid employment), and fewer people are working very long hours.

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view the OECD How's Life? 2020 Measuring Well-being

Source: OECD


As the ETF turns 30, it is time for active managers to embrace it

March 4, 2020--Exchange traded funds can provide greater flexibility, lower costs and ready access. The dominant narrative surrounding exchange traded funds over their 30-year history has been a kind of active-versus-indexing derby, in which investors must choose one or the other.

But that is the wrong way of looking at it. These days, there is a quiet revolution under way, in which index-tracking ETFs are used within actively managed portfolios. In an ironic twist, it is active fund managers who are now among the fastest-growing segments among users of ETFs.

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Source: FT.com


Shaping the future of payments: BIS Quarterly Review

March 1, 2020--March 1, 2020--The BIS Quarterly Review takes an in-depth look at the fast-changing world of payments, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of existing systems, describing the rapid pace of technological change and its impact, and assessing new solutions.
Thanks to the speed of changes and the potential for disruption, payment systems have shot to the top of policymakers' agendas.

The BIS and central banks have a leading role in shaping policymakers' response to these changes.

The BIS and central banks have a leading role in shaping policymakers' response to these changes.

"Central banks have a core role in payment systems, and the changes under way require them to step up and play a more significant part in improving the safety and efficiency of these systems," Agustín Carstens, BIS General Manager, wrote in the introduction to this special edition of the Quarterly. "Money and payment systems are founded on trust in the currency-whether cash or digital-and this trust is something that only the central bank can ensure", he added.

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Source: BIS


IMF Working Paper-Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil

February 28, 2020--Summary:
This paper documents the determinants of real oil price in the global market based on SVAR model embedding transitory and permanent shocks on oil demand and supply as well as speculative disturbances. We find evidence of significant differences in the propagation mechanisms of transitory versus permanent shocks, pointing to the importance of disentangling their distinct effects.

Permanent supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements during the most recent decades, while speculative shocks became less influential.

view the IMF Working Paper-Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil

Source: IMF


IMF Working Paper: Household Debt and House Prices-at-risk: A Tale of Two Countries

February 28, 2020--Summary:
To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly data from 1983 to 2018. This paper finds that downside risks to housing markets in the United States have seemingly fallen over the past decade, while having increased in Canada.

Supply-side drivers, valuation, household debt, and financial conditions jointly play a key role in forecasting house price risks. In addition, capital flows are found to be significantly associated with future downside risks to major housing markets, but the net effect depends on the type of flows and varies across cities and forecast horizons. Using micro-level data, we identify households vulnerable to potential housing shocks and assess the riskiness of household debt.

view the IMF Working Paper: Household Debt and House Prices-at-risk: A Tale of Two Countries

Source: IMF


Private investors in trading surge as coronavirus sparks market correction

February 28, 2020--As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback

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Source: FT.com


OECD GDP growth slows to 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2019

February 20, 2020--Growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area slowed to 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2019, compared with 0.4% in the previous quarter, according to provisional estimates. Among the Major Seven economies with data available for the fourth quarter of 2019, only the United States saw GDP increase (up 0.5%, unchanged from the previous quarter).

GDP contracted sharply in Japan (by minus 1.6%, following October’s increase in consumption tax) and also contracted in Italy (by minus 0.3%) and France (by minus 0.1%).

GDP growth slowed to zero in the United Kingdom and Germany (following growth of 0.5% and 0.2% respectively in the previous quarter‎) and also slowed in the euro area and in the European Union (to 0.1%, from 0.3% in the previous quarter).

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Source: OECD


OECD-Corporate bond debt continues to pile up

February 18, 2020--The volume of corporate debt reached an all time high in real terms of USD 13.5 trillion at the end of 2019, driven by the return of more expansionary monetary policies early in the year. At the same time, the overall quality of corporate debt has declined, according to a new OECD report

Corporate Bond Market Trends, Emerging Risks and Monetary Policy says that non-financial companies borrowed USD 2.1 trillion in the form of corporate bonds in 2019. However, the data show that, in comparison to previous credit cycles, today's stock of outstanding corporate bonds has lower overall credit quality, higher payback requirements, longer maturities and inferior investor protection. This may amplify the negative effects that an economic downturn would have on the non-financial corporate sector and the overall economy.

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Source: OECD


Finding Solid Footing for the Global Economy

February 19, 2020--As the Group of Twenty industrialized and emerging market economies (G-20) finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Riyadh this week, they face an uncertain economic landscape.
After disappointing growth in 2019, we began to see signs of stabilization and risk reduction, including the Phase 1 U.S.-China trade deal. In January, the IMF projected growth to strengthen from 2.9 percent in 2019 to 3.3 percent in 2020 and 3.4 percent in 2021.

This projected uptick in growth is dependent on improved performance in some emerging market and developing economies.

Monetary and fiscal policy have been doing their part. In fact, monetary easing added approximately 0.5 percentage points to global growth last year. Forty-nine central banks cut rates 71 times as part of the most synchronized monetary action since the global financial crisis.

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Source: IMF


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Europe ETF News


June 16, 2025 ESMA's activities in 2024 focused on strengthening the EU capital markets and putting citizens and businesses at the heart of it
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June 12, 2025 ifo Institute Raises Growth Forecast for Germany
June 10, 2025 ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter
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Asia ETF News


June 25, 2025 QFIIs Gain Access to Onshore ETF Options As A-share Market Opening Deepens
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June 13, 2025 Unlocking Consumption to Sustain Growth in China -World Bank Economic Update
June 13, 2025 US trading firm Virtu weighs foray into China market-making business

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Middle East ETP News


June 19, 2025 GCC: Growth on the Rise, but Smart Spending Will Shape a Thriving Future
June 16, 2025 Saudi Exchange leads market losses across the GCC

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Africa ETF News


June 24, 2025 East Africa's regional 20 share index
June 16, 2025 African Credit Rating Agency to Launch September 2025
May 27, 2025 African Economic Outlook 2025-Africa's short-term outlook resilient despite global economic and political headwinds

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ESG and Of Interest News


June 18, 2025 Global Energy Transition Gains Ground, but Security and Capital Challenges Persist
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White Papers


May 30, 2025 IMF Working Paper-Interest Rate Sensitivity Scenarios to Guide Monetary Policy

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