LevelTen Energy, a renewable energy marketplace, has released the first LevelTen European PPA Price Index, which analyses the power purchase agreement (PPA) price offers for renewable projects under development in Europe. 

Investors are eyeing China’s growing equity markets as signs of an economic recovery start to emerge. The IMF is forecasting that China will grow in 2020 and see a strong rebound in 2021, while projections for other large economies show them lagging behind.

Businesses in Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Macau are expecting a noticeable easing of contractionary pressure in the third quarter, after facing a challenging second quarter due to Covid-19.

Refinitiv have launched the prototype Term SONIA (Sterling Overnight Index Average) Reference Rate. The Refinitiv Term SONIA will leverage the firm’s experience in administering benchmarks to create a British Pound Sterling (GBP) forward-looking term risk-free rate that is published daily prior to noon.

MV Index Solutions (MVIS) in partnership with CryptoCompare, a specialist in digital asset data, has licensed the MVIS CryptoCompare Bitcoin Index (MVBTC) to Arrano Capital, the blockchain arm of Venture Smart Asia Limited, for its recently launched bitcoin fund. 

Direct indexing firm C8 Technologies has made the LGBTQ100 ESG Index tradable for investors around the world, by collaborating with LGBTQ Loyalty Holdings through its wholly-owned business unit, Advancing Equality Preference. 

Global investor confidence has risen to 94.3 in June, jumping 21.3 points from April’s revised reading of 73, according to the latest figures from State Street Global Markets’ Global Investor Confidence Index. 

As demand for ESG investments rises, German index provider Solactive has expanded its ISS ESG Screened Corporate Bond Index series, now pooling High Yield and Investment Grade Bonds denominated in EUR and USD in respective market value-weighted indices.

Standard Chartered and Hong Kong Trade Development Council has launched the Standard Chartered GBA Business Confidence Index, the first forward-looking quarterly survey in the market that looks at the business sentiment and synergistic effects across cities and industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Intercontinental Exchange's ICE Data Services has launched real-time publication of several of its most popular fixed income indices. These indices will continue to be administered by ICE Data Indices (IDI).