FreightWaves and MerQube have announced the launch of the MerQube FreightWaves Supply Chain Tech Index, designed to provide exposure to publicly traded global companies operating in the supply chain technology sector.

After managing a multi-cap, multi-factor, faith-based, separate account composite for over 10 years, Wallick Institutional of Wallick Investments, LLC has launched the WI Fidelis Multi-Cap Multi-Factor Index.

Global index provider FTSE Russell has announced the launch of a new set of sustainable investment fixed income indexes.

MerQube has announced the successful closure of a funding round led by Laurion Capital Management.  This round follows the USD5 million Series A led by J.P. Morgan in October 2021.  MerQube had previously raised USD2 million in its seed round in August 2019 and October 2020.

Bailey McCann writes that the SEC is looking at new regulations for index providers. Could the EU’s benchmark regulation act as a template?

Morningstar, Inc, a provider of independent investment research, has announced the launch of Morningstar Indexes’ Eurozone Gender Diversity Index Select 50 powered by Equileap’s leading data and insights on gender equality. The index is licensed to Citi to underlie structured products.

Performance in June across Nasdaq’s suite of indexes was generally negative with an average loss of 8.7 per cent across the 99 indexes.

Index provider MerQube, has announced that it is working with UBS as the calculation agent and administrator of their CMCI Family which will be known as the UBS Constant Maturity Commodity Indices going forward.

Hargreaves Lansdown’s Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, writes that the Pound headed back towards USD1.20 as speculation intensified over the timing of the PM’s resignation.

Trakx, the thematic crypto index trading platform, has announced that it has partnered with Vinter, the crypto index provider, for its suite of crypto products.