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AFME appoints new head of capital markets

The TRADE

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has appointed April Day head of capital markets. As part of the role, she oversaw equity capital markets (ECM), trading and post-trade activities. She also brings extensive experience in investment banking and capital markets to the new role.

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The scale-up gap: Financial market constraints holding back innovative firms in the European Union

European Investment Bank

The report also documents the link between financial constraints and firms’ outcomes, including relocations and likelihood to exit via initial public offering or acquisition.

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Trade associations emphasise need for credit ratings to bolster EU corporate bond transparency regime

The TRADE

Particularly, as overly prompt dissemination of trade information could lead to a negative impact on market liquidity. The associations noted that distinguishing between investment grade (IG) and high-yield (HY) corporate bonds is a key component to tap into greater transparency in more liquid bonds, while ensuring protection for those bonds.

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Mosaic Smart Data and Euroclear launch data intelligence offering for capital markets

The TRADE

As a financial market infrastructure with a track record of providing high quality settlement services to the world’s leading financial institutions, we are well positioned to drive innovation in the industry and to improve efficiency in the market as a whole.”

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Qatar’s Edaa postpones T+2 switch until March

The TRADE

The Qatari CSD Edaa has postponed the reduction of the settlement period from T+3 to T+2 until March 2024, in coordination with the Qatar Financial Market Authority (QFMA). Sheikh Saif bin Abdullah Al-Thani, CEO of Edaa, indicated that the deadline was granted so that market participants, financial intermediaries and custodians could update their (..)

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Major investment banks and asset managers partake in landmark blockchain pilot

The TRADE

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.

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Could digital assets help expand capital raising?

Accenture Capital Markets

At Accenture’s capital markets team, we’ve completed a research project into the future of capital raising. The results should be of interest for anyone in the industry—for both public and private markets. We were keen to develop some insights into the evolving landscape of financial market infrastructure.