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Monday Express: IEX shutting listings business; Citi commits to climate action

* IEX Group is exiting its listings business after its only listed company, Interactive Brokers Group, decided to switch back to Nasdaq, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

* Citigroup is among the 130 banks that adopted the new United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Banking. By signing up to the principles, the banks agreed to strategically align their business with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.

* Wilmington, Del.-based The Bancorp was fined $1.4 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a settlement related to an investigation into its financial statements.

* Citi, which slashed jobs in its U.S. high-yield debt research team in August, recently reduced the number of research analysts in its London, Moscow, Dubai, Latin America, New York and San Francisco offices, Bloomberg News reports. The decision was made in light of diminishing commissions and changes in industry rules.

* U.S. Treasury Department's Deputy Secretary, Justin Muzinich, is expected to unveil today a plan to publicly release data on Treasuries trading, Bloomberg News reports, citing an anonymous Treasury official.

* The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill requiring public companies to release particular environmental, social and governance metrics and their impact on long-term business strategy, Pensions & Investments reported. The bill will also create a Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee at the SEC, which would recommend the types of ESG disclosures needed.

* Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., increased the scope of the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act to include protections for industrial hemp businesses, American Banker reports. The bill, which forbids federal banking regulators from punishing financial institutions for providing services to state-compliant marijuana businesses, is up for a vote in the full House this week.

* The Bank for International Settlements' latest report found that the scores measuring the systemic importance of the world's biggest banks have declined due to the diminishing regulatory proxies for their interconnectedness and complexity.

* Oscar Health's antitrust lawsuit against Florida Blue over "anticompetitive exclusive agreements" with brokers has been dismissed by U.S. Middle District Judge Paul Byron, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

* North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey advised Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to appoint an interim CEO as President and CEO Patrick Conway faces charges over alleged traffic violations, ABC 11 reports.

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