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Canadian pension plans suffer biggest returns decline for more than a decade in Q1
30 April 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Canadian defined benefit pension plans in the RBC Investor & Treasury Services All Plan Universe has experienced the steepest decline since 2008

LCH RepoClear gains two new members
30 March 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

RBC has become the first Canadian bank to become a clearing member at LCH SA’s RepoClear service

Bank of Japan takes further action on repo market
26 March 2020 Japan
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Bank of Japan is expanding its securities lending programme aimed at stabilising money markets

Central banks to offer US dollar funding via daily swap lines
20 March 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

As of 23 March, banks will be able to access daily US dollar funding via seven-day maturity operations offered by the ECB, US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, among other central banks

Central banks join forces to provide fresh dollar and euro liquidity
20 March 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Central bank across the world, including the US Federal Reserve, the ECB, BoJ and BoE, have begun a coordinated action to ensure euro and US dollar liquidity is boosted to combat widespread market disruption

ULTUMUS opens San Francisco office
04 March 2020 San Francisco
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The new office will be headed by Fe Zamora, formerly of IHS Markit, who will be responsible for building out the team and managing US operations

Eurex enables global ESG investing
03 March 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Eurex broadens its ESG segment to markets beyond Europe with new MSCI index-based derivatives

RBC appoints new securities finance director
14 January 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Christopher Barrand has been promoted to director of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services

RBC launches collateral management solution
12 December 2019 Toronto
Reporter: Natalie Turner

RBC I&TS has launched a collateral management solution leveraging technology from CloudMargin via IHS Markit to tackle UMR challenges

Canadian commodities lobby group takes aim at “predatory” short sellers
02 December 2019 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Canada’s market regulator is facing pressure to bring back an uptick rule to limit short selling of ‘junior markets’ stocks as part of a campaign to curb “predatory” trading activities

IHS Markit brings in ex ABN AMRO VP for sec lending
06 November 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

IHS Markit has added to its securities finance team and has also announced changes to its board

Ivno completes first global token trial on R3’s Corda
18 October 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The size, scale and success of the Ivno Global Trial validated Ivno's technology and financial design and confirmed the desire and demand for live deployment" says Daniel Halstead, Ivno's co-founder