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Kaizen picks North as chief product officer
26 August 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Sam North joins the team following more than 15 years at DTCC and at a time where the firm looks to scale its regulatory reporting assurance platform

Vermeg joins Securities Finance Association
26 August 2026 Netherlands
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The firm’s software solutions across capital markets and market infrastructures enable its clients to manage inventory and collateral, post-trade operations, and asset servicing

EDX Markets integrates YLDS
25 August 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The SEC-registered yield-bearing digital security can be used as a collateral asset, designed to give institutions a greater degree of flexibility to manage capital

BNP Paribas invests in OSTTRA
25 August 2026 US, UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

BNP Paribas will collaborate closely with OSTTRA as it continues to advance its global post-trade ecosystem, streamlining workflows, reducing operational risk, and enhancing market efficiency across asset classes

Clearstream settles first uncleared triparty repo on T2S
24 August 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Theodore Law

The enhancement provides Clearstream clients with direct access to central bank money, combined with the established triparty repo collateral management framework

State Street appoints Lam-Decker
24 August 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Theodore Law

Dylan Lam-Decker arrives from HSBC, where he joined the global graduate programme and worked in sales, trade finance and global banking

Marex onboards Fontes as first capital introduction hire in LatAm
24 August 2026 Brazil
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The appointment of Vitor Fontes comes at a time of increased demand for Marex’s capital introduction services, a key solution within the firm’s broader prime services offering

GLMX hires Clarke
24 August 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Helena Clarke, formerly of Tradeweb, has joined the firm as client integration manager

ICMA welcomes six new firms
21 August 2026 Global
Reporter: Theodore Law

The International Capital Market Association now has 636 members in 71 jurisdictions

Clear Street Canada migrates clearing and execution to proprietary cloud-native platform
21 August 2026 Canada
Reporter: Theodore Law

Canadian institutional trading continues to run mostly on legacy infrastructure, largely owned by incumbent bank-dealers

STS Digital launches cross-asset portfolio margining
20 August 2026 Bermuda
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The offering will be available across the firm’s OTC business in spot, options, and structured products, and will allow institutions to post tokens already held as margin against positions in other assets

Axiology to participate in ECB’s Pontes and Appia Contact Group initial launch
20 August 2026 Lithuania
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Pontes and Appia are intended to shape a European capital markets environment where tokenised securities can move more efficiently across regulated infrastructure by reducing fragmentation