Beeland Interests, the owner and administrator of Jim Rogers’ Rogers International Commodity Index and RICI Enhanced indices, and index company Moorgate Benchmarks, are partnering to further enhance RICI's European presence and to ensure its indices can continue to be used without interruption within Europe following the introduction of the EU and UK Benchmarks Regulation (BMR).

Skytra, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus, has obtained approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to be the regulated Benchmark Administrator (BA) for its Air Travel Price Indices. 

CoinDesk, a specialist in crypto and blockchain news, events, data and research, has acquired TradeBlock, a provider of digital asset reference rates.

Digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin has launched two new indices on the multi-currency spot and futures trading platform BTSE – the Maker Vault Index and the Blockchain Interoperability Index. Both institutional-grade products are available on BTSE starting 23 December, 2020 and will be made available on additional BNC partner exchanges in the near future. 

Intercontinental Exchange has launched futures on an additional 10 MSCI Indices.

LCH, a leading global clearing house, has successfully extended its credit index options clearing offering to include the CDX Investment Grade 5Y and CDX High Yield 5Y indices. 

Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices is partnering with Lukka, a New York City-based crypto asset software and data company to launch global cryptocurrency asset indexes.

Investors piled back into value stocks as November’s twin breakthroughs in the search for an effective vaccine against Covid-19, by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, renewed optimism and prompted a huge rally in global markets.

Alpha Vee Investment Solutions Indexes has launched seven direct index strategies on the C8 Technologies platform. 

Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited has launched the HSTECH Short Index and HSTECH 2x Leveraged Index.