you are currently viewing::Geopolitical and macroeconomic developments driving market uncertaintyFebruary 13, 2025--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, today publishes its first risk monitoring report of 2025, setting out the key risk drivers currently facing EU financial markets. ESMA finds that overall risks in EU securities markets are high, and market participants should be wary of potential market corrections. Structural developments Market-based finance: The financing of European corporates lost momentum in 2024. The market environment remains challenging, and equity issuance stayed weak overall. Corporate bond issuance fell slightly in 2H24 but remained close to historically high levels. Given the upcoming corporate bond maturity wall from 2025 to 2028, with 47% of debt maturing in this period, debt sustainability remains a risk. Source: esma.europa.eu |
March 12, 2025--Today, Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announces that HANetf has listed their first Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) on Nasdaq Stockholm.
The ETNs have leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs as underlying assets and will be traded in Swedish Krona (SEK).
March 12, 2025--A new crypto ETN issued by 21Shares has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Wednesday.
The 21Shares Bitcoin Ethereum Core ETP offers investors easy and efficient access to the performance of a crypto basket consisting of the two cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
March 10, 2025--Quick Summary:
Luxembourg has only approved semi-transparency for actively managed funds, with passive, index-tracking funds not deemed in need of such protection, but she believed some passive funds would also benefit from shielding their portfolio from the market.
March 5, 2025-Outflows are in contrast to the US where flows to US equity ETFs represented nearly half of the total accrued
European investors pulled money from US equity exchange traded funds in February for the first time since May 2023 in a sign of an abrupt change in sentiment on the continent towards US equities and in contrast to their US peers.
March 4, 2025-Industry figures have welcomed ambitious plans by Euronext, the stock exchange group, to consolidate the thousands of exchange traded product listings scattered across its seven bourses on to one venue.
February 27, 2025-- Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 3.6% in January 2025 from 3.4% in December (revised from 3.5%)
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, increased to 2.7% in January from 1.8% in December
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households increased to 1.3% in January from 1.1% in December
February 27, 2025-- Held in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday and Thursday, 29-30 January 2025
1. Review of financial, economic and monetary developments and policy options
Financial market developments
Ms Schnabel noted that the financial market developments observed in the euro area after October 2024 had reversed since the Governing Council's previous monetary policy meeting on 11-12 December 2024.
February 19, 2025-Tabula Capital Limited, an independent quantitative macro credit manager founded in 2020 by David Peacock and John Weiss, is delighted to announce that it is now trading under a new name: TabCap Investment Management ("TabCap").
February 19, 2025--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its latest edition of the Spotlight on Markets Newsletter.
February 17, 2025-As of today, another share class of the Fair Oaks AA CLO UCITS ETF from Fair Oaks Invest is tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.
The Fair Oaks AAA CLO UCITS ETF is now also available in the accumulating share class. The fund is actively managed and offers investors access to a portfolio of AAA-rated collateralised loan obligations (CLOs).