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€1.50 THURSDAY 12 JANUARY 2023 • ISSUE 188 WWW.BUSINESSTODAY.COM.MT PAGE 3 PAGE 2 470 million euros raised in bonds on primary market Over €386,000 in FIAU fines for gaming entities PAUL COCKS MORE than €470 million were raised in bonds on the local primary market across 20 issues in 2022, a record for Malta, although bond investors did not all fair well. In fact, the Malta Corporate Bond In- dex closed 2022 with a decline of 4.7% while the Malta Government Stock market registered a decline of 19.7%. But despite several corporate bonds dropping below their par value in the last six months of the year, nearly all bond issues were quickly oversub- scribed. e bond offers in 2022 included new offerings from existing issuers as well new offerings from other companies who approached the market for the first time. STAR PERFORMER MSE FTSE 100 EUR EXCHANGE RATES Trading Date: 10 Jan 2023 Number of Trades: 69 Turnover: € 422,017.97 MSE TRX Index: 7,461.31 Change: 7,507.57 (0.744%) Name: 4% EDF PLC UNS MT0000141227 - Currency € Last Traded: 10 Jan 2023 Price 98.000 Change +2.000 US Dollar 1.0388 British Pound: 0.86477 Japanese Yen: 144.59 Australian Dollar: 1.5451 Swiss Franc: 0.98700 7,587.67 75.67 7,592.39 / 7,512.00 Value Net variation High / Low +1.01% www.franksalt.com.mt/ftb BUYING YOUR FIRST HOME? save thousands with our offer! THE Malta Gaming Authority carried out 16 compliance audits and 114 desktop re- views over the January-June 2022 period, accompanied by an additional seven an- ti-money laundering (AML) compliance examinations initiated behalf of the FIAU. Additionally, the MGA issued a warning, cancelled a licence, as well as suspended another authorised entity, following infor- mation which emerged from compliance audits, compliance reviews and formal investigations. A total of seven adminis- trative penalties as well as two regulatory settlements, with a collective total finan- cial penalty of €85,000. Enforcement measures were also issued by the FIAU to an additional four licen- sees, ranging from written reprimands to administrative penalties, with an empha- sis on remediation measures, based on the breaches identified during examinations carried out in previous years, including by the MGA. In total, these amounted to just over €386,567.