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BoE working paper dissects gilts market crisis
03 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank of England staff working paper draws on transaction-level data from government bond, repo and IRS markets to evaluate movements in market liquidity, price trends and investor behaviour during the autumn 2022 gilts market upheaval

VDX selects Streatfield as global head of institutional sales
31 March 2023 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

David Streatfield, former head of Asia sales at Global Investment Strategy Hong Kong, joins the digital asset platform with more than 20 years’ experience in financial services

ICJ, TSE and Broadridge launch digital vote execution service
31 March 2023 Japan
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The joint venture aims to accelerate end-to-end automation of proxy voting to Japanese issuers and enable the Japanese market to improve corporate governance practices

Pirum hires Young as key account director for EMEA
30 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Sarah Young joins Pirum’s newly launched global key account management team led by Robert Zekraus, chief operating officer and head of Americas

Genesis offers triparty to institutional clients through BitGo collaboration
30 March 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

BitGo will deliver qualified custody services and cold storage for assets held in safekeeping for Genesis’ institutional clients, combining the asset safety offered by BitGo’s triparty solution with Genesis’ trading capability

RISKGRID launches new cloud-based risk assessment platform
30 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The new platform is designed to enable financial services firms to automate and standardise fragmented, cross-enterprise risk assessment practices, says RISKGRID

FSB appoints new standing committee chairs
30 March 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: SFT

Nellie Liang becomes the new chair of the FSB Standing Committee on Assessment of Vulnerabilities, with Ryozo Himino heading the Standing Committee on Standards Implementation

DTCC makes trio of leadership appointments
29 March 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Susan Cosgrove (pictured) has been named as president of clearing and securities services, replacing DTCC veteran Murray Pozmanter

Citi goes live with Nordnet on its Securities Lending Access platform
29 March 2023 UK, Nordics
Reporter: Bob Currie

This solution brings together Citi’s lending platform with Sharegain technology to digitise the securities lending transaction lifecycle, aiming to democratise lending by extending access to a wider community of investors

Pirum enhances CoacsConnect to automate corporate actions process
28 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The next phase of CoacsConnect will fully automate the voluntary corporate action process for the securities finance industry

KfW joins LCH SwapAgent
28 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

KfW has joined uncleared derivatives market service LCH SwapAgent and has processed the first Transport Currency trade with its counterparties

DSB to release OTC ISIN report in June
28 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Timings of the consultation are being communicated in advance to ensure that the industry has sufficient notice to plan and align resources for participation, says the Derivatives Service Bureau