News
Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
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Dic
17
2021
On 15 November 2021 the Governing Council decided to increase the limit for asset purchase programme (APP) and pandemic emergency programme (PEPP) securities lending against cash collateral to €150 billion… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/govcdec/otherdec/2021/html/ecb.gc211217~e4ba94a36d.en.html
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17
2021
Accredited investors can now invest in some of the world’s most valuable nonfungible tokens and art collections through the Bitwise Blue-Chip NFT Index Fund… https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitwise-launches-nft-index-fund-for-accredited-investors
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17
2021
The “real” pit of the bear market for Bitcoin has since delivered over 2,000% gains for patient BTC hodlers… https://cointelegraph.com/news/happy-bearday-bitcoin-it-s-been-3-years-since-btc-bottomed-at-3-1k
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12
2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets regulator, has today published the 2021 ESEF XBRL taxonomy files and an update to the ESEF Conformance Suite to facilitate implementation of the ESEF Regulation… https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/esma-publishes-2021-esef-xbrl-taxonomy-files-and-esef-conformance-suite
EIOPA consults on the application guidance on climate change risk scenarios in the ORSA
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Dic
12
2021
Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA) launched a consultation on the application guidance on running climate change materiality assessment and using climate change scenarios in the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA)… https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/media/news/eiopa-consults-application-guidance-climate-change-risk-scenarios-orsa_en
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12
2021
The term metaverse has been reintroduced online due to Facebook’s announcement that they would build a VR (Virtual Reality) social network for its users… https://www.newsbtc.com/news/company/metaverse-versus-gamefi-a-new-blockchain-war/
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12
2021
Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm… https://cointelegraph.com/news/inside-the-blockchain-developer-s-mind-proof-of-stake-blockchain-consensus
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EIOPA publishes monthly technical information for Solvency II Relevant Risk Free Interest Rate Term Structures and parallel technical information
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Dic
03
2021
Today, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published technical information on the relevant risk free interest rate term structures (RFR) with reference to the end of November 2021… https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/media/news/eiopa-publishes-monthly-technical-information-solvency-ii-relevant-risk-free-interest-3_en
ESMA PUBLISHES DRAFT COMMODITY DERIVATIVE TECHNICAL STANDARDS UNDER MIFID II RECOVERY PACKAGE
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Dic
03
2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today published its Final Report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for commodity derivatives under the MiFID II Recovery Package… https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/esma-publishes-draft-commodity-derivative-technical-standards-under-mifid-ii
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2021
The report highlights the merits of EIP-1559 as a tool for making ETH a deflationary cryptocurrency and potentially a better store of value than Bitcoin… https://cointelegraph.com/news/academic-research-claims-eth-is-a-superior-store-of-value-to-bitcoin
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