News
Mag
10
2019
Binance, the biggest crypto exchange by volume, was hacked on Tuesday. The hacker took $40 million or 7000 BTC… https://www.coindesk.com/all-of-it-dark-all-of-it-p2p-after-the-binance-hack-bitcoin-doesnt-cut-it
Tagged width: blockchain, fintech
Mag
10
2019
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued the Sixteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework… https://www.bis.org/press/p190507.htm
Mag
10
2019
Today’s updates include DVC data and calculations for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, the period of 1 March 2018 to 28 February 2019… https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/mifid-ii-esma-issues-latest-double-volume-cap-data-10
Tagged width: capital markets, esma
Institutional presence in secondary bank bond markets: how does it affect liquidity and volatility?
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Mag
03
2019
Using newly available information on euro area sectoral holdings of securities, we investigates to what extent the presence of institutional investors affects volatility and liquidity in secondary bank bond markets… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2276~09300538fd.en.pdf
Tagged width: capital markets, ecb
Mag
03
2019
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its advice to the European Commission on sustainability in the areas of risk management, investment strategy, stewardship and product oversight… https://eiopa.europa.eu/Pages/News/EIOPA-submits-advice-on-Sustainable-Finance-to-the-European-Commission-.aspx
Ed Sibley: Monetary and financial stability – the implications for prudential supervision
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Mag
03
2019
The theme of the conference ‘European Economic and Monetary Union: the first and the next 20 years’ gives us wide scope to share some of our thoughts. We have much to learn from the last twenty years… https://www.bis.org/review/r190503b.pdf
Tagged width: banking, BIS, capital markets
Bitcoin Mining’s New Bidding War
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Mag
03
2019
The cost of secondhand cryptocurrency mining equipment in China has nearly doubled in recent weeks as a result of bitcoin’s price jump over the same period… https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-minings-new-bidding-war
Tagged width: blockchain, fintech
Apr
26
2019
The crypto markets endured a loss of as much as $10 billion around 21:00 UTC on Thursday, following the NYAG’s allegations on Bitfinex and Tether… https://www.coindesk.com/how-crypto-markets-are-reacting-to-the-tether-bitfinex-allegations
Tagged width: blockchain, fintech
Apr
26
2019
They study the effects of monetary shocks in a model of state-dependent price and wage adjustment based on “control costs”… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2272~38362298bc.en.pdf
Tagged width: capital markets, ecb
Apr
26
2019
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated its online Interactive Single Rulebook and Q&A tool with the inclusion of the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD)… https://eba.europa.eu/regulation-and-policy/single-rulebook/interactive-single-rulebook
