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OCC welcomes Lewis to board of directors
24 February 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Joseph Lewis, managing director and co-head of corporate hedging and FX solutions at Jefferies, joins the board as the OCC progresses in its transformation efforts

DZ BANK adopts Metaco’s Harmonize
23 February 2023 Germany
Reporter: Lucy Carter

German banking group DZ BANK has selected technology provider Metaco’s Harmonize platform to develop its digital asset management offering

HSBC hires Bunn to run securities finance for Americas
23 February 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Greg Bunn, former global head of counterparty strategy and central funding at Citadel, joins HSBC as the bank continues to expand its prime finance business

Derivatives Service Bureau to release its UPI testing framework from April 2023
23 February 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

DSB will be making its UPI user acceptance testing framework available to users from April 2023, providing a nine-month window to ensure readiness prior to this UPI requirement being enforced in trade reporting from January 2024

Lotito leaves Mizuho
23 February 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Joseph Lotito, executive director of equity finance trading, departs from Mizuho after almost four years

Clear Street appoints Singh
23 February 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Raj Karan Singh, former global head of securities finance at BCS Global Markets, joins Clear Street as senior managing director of securities finance

BNY Mellon expands collateral platform to Malaysia
23 February 2023 Malaysia
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

BNY Mellon has expanded its International Collateral Management platform to Malaysia to unlock Malaysian equities and fixed income instruments for use as eligible collateral

Citi appoints Ken Sansom as head of securities services technology
22 February 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Sansom joins Citi from Amazon Web Services, where he was responsible for helping companies use cloud technologies

Taryn Siglain swaps Morgan Stanley for State Street
22 February 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

State Street has appointed Taryn Siglain as global head of its principal securities lending programme, Enhanced Custody

Margin pressures in commodity markets present contagion fears, says FSB
21 February 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Financial Stability Board finds that the commodities ecosystem was mainly able to absorb liquidity pressures with minimal disruption. But the system did creak on occasions, such as the LME decision to suspend nickel market trading

Duco releases EMIR Refit solution
21 February 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The solution will offer a no-code functionality to remap existing processes or build new ones without technical knowledge, says Duco

Deutsche Bank trials digital fund investment servicing platform with Memento
21 February 2023 Germany, Singaore
Reporter: Bob Currie

Proof of concept aims to offer a “one-stop” digital fund investment servicing solution, targeted at asset managers and their service intermediaries, that will streamline the process of issuing and servicing digital funds