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<p><span>Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, today announced that it reached record open interest in its Total Energy futures and options markets of 46.7 million contracts on April 25, and is up 11% since the start of the year.</span></p>

<p><span>State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for April 2022.</span></p>

<p><span>In April, the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum fell by 16.3% and 14.4% respectively (data up to 27th  April), a reversal following two months of positive returns for the two largest cryptocurrencies.</span></p>

<p><span>JP Morgan </span><span>and </span><span>Avendus Capital </span><span>were the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financial advisers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region for Q1 2022 by value and volume, respectively</span><span>. </span><span>JP Morgan advised on four deals worth US$9.3bn, the highest among all the advisers. Meanwhile, Avendus Capital led in volume terms havin...

<p><span>A total of 505 venture capital (VC) funding deals were announced in India during Q1 2022 while the disclosed funding value of these deals stood at US$9.2bn, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.</span></p>

<p>The total value of transactions during the month in review reached €5,23 million, with an average of €0,25 million per trading session. The Financials sector contributed 57,75% to the total value traded which was the highest among all other sectors. Investors primarily focused their interest on the shares of “Bank of Cyprus Holdings Plc” and also on shares of “Mallouppas & Papacostas Public Co Ltd” with 41,07% and 2...

<p><strong>HKEX Releases 2022 First Quarter Results</strong></p>
<p>Liquidity conditions across China’s interbank markets eased in April, boosted by the central bank cutting banks’ reserve requirement ratio in order to boost a slowing economy, the latest MNI Liquidity Condition Index shows.</p>

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<li>Automation – 44 percent of equity trading volume is automated. 66 percent of professionals expect in 1-3 years to focus more time on automating processes than on any other task. </li>
<li>Digital Communication Capabilities – 58 percent of FX respondents see digitally communicating with customers/partners as one of their top priorities. </li>
<li>Reference Data - 61 percent of respondents buy accurate FX m...

<p><span>The pension systems for Texas cities’ firefighters, police and municipal employees beat actuarial investment return targets for the last 20-year period and outperformed global 60/40 returns in the 10- and 15-year periods.</span></p>

<p><span>It was a positive month for the cryptocurrency markets in March as Bitcoin and Ethereum closed the month at $45,523 and $3,283 (up 5.40% and 12.4% since February), respectively. Cryptocurrency exchanges saw an increase of 6.72% in volumes across both derivative and spot markets.</span></p>