Real GDP growth remained unexpectedly sluggish in the fourth quarter of 2018, and recent indicators point to substantially weaker than previously expected activity also in the first half of 2019.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/projections/html/ecb.projections201903_ecbstaff~14271a62b5.en.html
The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules in its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting, highlighting those which have been deactivated either for incorrectness or for triggering IT problems. Competent Authorities throughout the EU are informed that data submitted in accordance with these ITS should not be formally validated against the set of deactivated rules.
EBA Validation Rules – 2019 03 08.xlsx
Konstantin Ignatov, one of the heads of the infamous OneCoin pyramid scheme, has been arrested on wire fraud charges.
U.S. prosecutors in New York have arrested a “top leader” of the OneCoin project, saying it stole “billions” from investors through an alleged pyramid scheme.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has indicted Ruja Ignatova and Konstantin Ignatov on charges of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering, claiming the two defrauded investors out of “billions of dollars” using a fraudulent cryptocurrency. Konstantin Ignatov was arrested on wire fraud charges at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this week as part of the investigation.
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) submitted to the European Commission, draft regulatory technical standards to amend the Delegated Regulation covering the rules for the Key Information Document (KID) for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs).
Il tempo del FINTECH è adesso : la Digital Transformation ha rivoluzionando in modo radicale tutti i livelli degli attuali modelli di business nel settore finanziario; per poter rispondere in modo proattivo alla Fintech Revolution , il MIP Politecnico di Milano ha sviluppato il nuovo Master internazionale in FINTECH – Finance and Digital Innovation .
In occasione del lancio del nuovo master, siamo lieti di invitarvi alla Roundtable che si terrà giovedì 14 marzo alle ore 18.00presso il Campus MIP.
Durante l’evento, il Direttore del Master,Prof. Emilio Barucci, le aziende sponsor e un Head Hunter di Aegis Human Consulting Group, presenteranno le nuove frontiere del Fintech e le opportunità di carriera, le opportunità e lesfide per giovani professionisti e per le imprese di questo settore.
Agenda
• 18.00: Roundtable
Modera Prof. Emilio Barucci, Direttore Master FINTECH con la partecipazione di Andrea Marchesini, Partner & Director, Aegis UK
– Roberto Villa, Manager of Research ecosystem, IBM Italy
– Savino Damico, Head of Fintech Ecosystem Management and Monitoring Innovation Dept., Intesa Sanpaolo
– Paolo Gianturco, Head of Fintech&FS Tech-EMEA Blockchain Lab co-leader, Deloitte
– Vittorio Giusti, Chief Operating Officer, Aviva Italia
– Andrea Prampolini, Head of Financial markets technology, Banca IMI
– Marco Scappa, Head of Fabrick Corporate Fintech, Fabrick S.p.A
• 19.15: Q&A
• 20.00: Aperitivo
La partecipazione all’evento è gratuita previa registrazione. Al termine dell’evento è previsto un aperitivo di networking.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision met in Basel on 27-28 February to discuss a range of policy and supervisory issues, and to take stock of its members’ implementation of post-crisis reforms.
The Committee also discussed its work programme for evaluating the impact of its post-crisis reforms. The programme includes planned evaluations related to cross-cutting policy issues, the countercyclical capital buffer framework and the global systemically important banks framework. Committee members also discussed issues related to sovereign risk.
The next meeting of the Basel Committee is tentatively scheduled for 19-20 June 2019.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today made available the results of the annual transparency calculations for equity and equity-like instruments.
The transparency requirements based on the results of the annual transparency calculations published from 1 March for equity and equity-like instruments will apply from 1 April 2019 until 31 March 2020. From 1 April 2020, the next annual transparency calculations for equity and equity-like instruments to be published by 1 March 2020, will become applicable.
L’indagine di Banca d’Italia sul costo dei conti correnti del 2018 (dati del 2017) offre alcuni dati interessanti:
