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Liquidity

The ease with which an asset can be converted into cash without affecting its market price.

Liquidity News

Regulation
CASLA: Geopolitics presents heavy impact on financial legislation

Market participants at this year’s CASLA conference discuss the regulatory regimes impacting the securities lending market, and the role geopolitics plays in legislation

Industry
ICMA to lead Project Guardian Fixed Income workstream

ICMA’s leadership in this workstream will focus primarily on delivery versus payment settlement and custody arrangements for tokenised debt securities

Technology
Bloomberg expands regulatory solution to Middle East

Basel III requires financial institutions to hold an adequate amount of unencumbered HQLA that can be converted easily and immediately into cash

Industry
RBC, TMX and Clearstream collaborate in triparty pledge solution

The move is seen as an important expansion of the Canadian Collateral Management Service into facilitating triparty pledge transaction in securities lending

Industry
LSF partners with Qantara AM

This strategic research partnership aims to deliver specialised commentaries, insights, market intelligence, and analysis on African sovereign eurobonds

Regulation
ECMS gets the green light for go-live

After migration is completed over the weekend, ECMS operations are expected to start on 16 June at 07:00 CET

Industry
Vietnam’s exchange launches new trading system

The new CSD solution, based on CMA’s DEPO/X platform, is now fully operational at the Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation

Technology
Baton connects with FICC and NSCC

As firms are preparing for the US Treasury clearing mandate, Baton is now providing clients with direct connectivity to DTCC’s clearing houses