Global ETF News Older than One Year
Banks and exchanges turn to blockchain
Wall St lured by efficiency promise of the technology behind bitcoin
June 30, 2015--The blockchain-the technology that underpins bitcoin-has been called "the future for financial services infrastructure".
Now banks, clearing houses and exchanges are becoming increasingly excited at the prospect of blockchain fundamentally transforming their business models.
Source: FT.com
IMF Survey-Strong and Equitable Growth: Fiscal Policy Can Make a Difference
June 30, 2015--Fiscal policies can help boost countries' long-term growth prospects
Complementary structural reforms magnify growth dividends
Social dialogue and attention to equity key to building public support for reform
Amid a recovery from the financial crisis that continues to disappoint and growing fear that the global economy is entering a prolonged period of mediocre growth, a new IMF study says that fiscal policy can actually lift potential growth.
view the policy paper-Fiscal policy and long-term growth
Source: IMF
IMF Working paper-Systemic Risk: New Trade-off for Monetary Policy?
June 30, 2015--Summary: We introduce time-varying systemic risk in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model to study whether a simple leaning-against-the-wind policy can reduce systemic risk and improve welfare. We find that an unexpected increase in policy rates reduces output, inflation, and asset prices without fundamentally mitigating financial risks.
We also find that while a systematic monetary policy reaction can improve welfare, it is too simplistic: (1) it is highly sensitive to parameters of the model and (2) is detrimental in the presence of falling asset prices. Macroprudential policy, similar to a countercyclical capital requirement, is more robust and leads to higher welfare gains.
view the IMF Working paper-Systemic Risk: New Trade-off for Monetary Policy?
Source: IMF
IMF Working paper-How Does Post-Crisis Bank Capital Adequacy Affect Firm Investment?
June 30, 2015--Summary: We examine the effect of bank capital levels on firm investment drawing on a sample of 11,106 non-financial firms from 2007 to 2013 in 16 advanced economies. We examine two measures of bank capital adequacy, the Tier 1 ratio and a simple leverage ratio, and find that firms with larger external financial needs invest relatively more when domestic financial systems have relatively high leverage ratios.
This pattern is more pronounced for those firms that have sound fundamentals, suggesting that bank balance sheets and their willingness to extend credit can be an important factor in determining aggregate investment and growth outcomes. The empirical findings are robust to a range of specifications. Bank Tier 1 capital ratio does not appear to have a significant effect on corporate investment, possibly because a higher Tier 1 ratio also captures a high share of assets with low risk weights.
view the IMF Working paper-How Does Post-Crisis Bank Capital Adequacy Affect Firm Investment?
Source: IMF
Flow Traders seeks 1.7bn euro valuation from upcoming IPO
June 30, 2015--Flow Traders, the Netherlands-based proprietary trading company, has set a target of up to €1.7bn from its Amsterdam flotation as investors show signs of warming to high-frequency trading.
Source: FT.com
WEF-Finance Sector Heading for Uber-Moment
June 30, 2015--Some of the world's largest finance-sector companies are reviewing their business models following the rapid growth of financial technology ("fintech") entrants in the sector.
This is the main finding of a World Economic Forum report entitled The Future of Financial Services: How Disruptive Innovations Are Reshaping the Way Financial Services Are Structured, Provisioned and Consumed, which is being released today.
The Forum's report draws on more than 100 interviews with industry experts and a series of workshops where executives from global financial institutions such as UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Visa and MasterCard met with leading global fintech innovators like Zopa, Funding Circle, Transferwise and Ripple to discuss the future of their industry.
Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
China Construction Bank and Euroclear sign MoU to foster offshore RMB growth
June 30, 2015--Euroclear Bank, the Brussels-based international central securities depository (ICSD), and China Construction Bank (CCB), whom has a market capitalization of US$ 251.4
billion, ranking it third among listed banks in the world have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further develop the offshore Renminbi (RMB) capital market.
Source: Leaprate.com
Greece Misses $1.7 Billion IMF Payment, Joining Zimbabwe's Ranks
June 30, 2015--Greece became the first advanced economy to miss a payment on IMF debt, joining the historical ranks of delinquents from Cuba to Zimbabwe after the Mediterranean nation's bailout talks with creditors collapsed.
The International Monetary Fund's board has been informed that Greece is now in arrears, spokesman Gerry Rice said in a statement, after a 6 p.m. Washington deadline Tuesday for Greece's $1.7 billion payment, coinciding with the expiration of the nation’s European bailout.
Source: Bloomberg
New DTCC Data Products Service To Provide Dynamic Data Provisioning and Easier Access to DTCC Data
June 30, 2015--Provisioned data aims to help firms reduce risks, increase efficiencies, lower costs, provide market insight and bring greater transparency to their business operations
The Depository Trust&Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the launch of a new centralized data provisioning service, DTCC Data Products.
EU-China summit
June 29, 2015--The 17th bilateral summit between the European Union and the People's Republic of China took place in Brussels on Monday 29 June 2015.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council of the People's Republic of China celebrated the 40th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic relations, acknowledging the significant strides in the political, economic, social, environmental and cultural relations between the EU and China.
Source: Europa
