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LSEG appoints Gest as operations lead for DMI
04 January 2024 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

David Gest brings 25 years of financial services experience to the role, formerly acting as head of product at Montis Digital

OCC average daily loan value up 9.39% for 2023
04 January 2024 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The end of year performance was supported by a 31.4% YoY increase in average daily loan value for securities lending trades in December, which generated US$161.6 billion

Global securities finance revenue climbs 8.6% for 2023, reports DataLend
03 January 2024 US
Reporter: Sophie Downes

The global securities finance industry generated US$10.7 billion in revenue for lenders in 2023, according to market data provider DataLend

S&P Global promotes Lloyd to head Cappitech
03 January 2024 Singapore
Reporter: Sophie Downes

Struan Lloyd joined S&P Global (formerly IHS Markit) in 2019 from CME Group where he acted as head of the APAC trade repository in Singapore

Citi hires Robinson as global head
03 January 2024 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Former J.P. Morgan global head Pitts Robinson has joined Citi as global head of securities financing product

Fechter steps down from Deutsche Börse Group
02 January 2024 Switzerland
Reporter: Sophie Downes

Tilman Fechter was head of strategy fund services at Deutsche Börse and was a member of the management board at Clearstream

Edaa delays shortening settlement cycle
02 January 2024 Qatar
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The move, which was originally scheduled for 2 January 2024, has been pushed back to March

ESAs propose extending the EMIR equity option exemption
21 December 2023 Europe
Reporter: Sophie Downes

The draft proposes a two-year extension to the equity option exemption from bilateral margining as well as issue a no-action opinion

EIB Group and BNP Paribas sign new securitisation transaction
21 December 2022 Europe
Reporter: Sophie Downes

The EIB Group has signed a synthetic securitisation transaction with BNP Paribas for a total amount of €106 million

ICMA survey shows outstanding value of €10,794 billion for June 2023
20 December 2023 Europe
Reporter: Sophie Downes

The survey analyses the value of outstanding repo plus reverse repo on the books of 62 participants before 14 June 2023

Baton partners with J.P. Morgan for collateral management optimisation solution
20 December 2023 US
Reporter: Klea Neza

The firms have partnered to enable tri-party clients to automate the optimisation of collateral to meet margin calls at a range of CCPs globally

ICMA welcomes four new members
19 December 2023 Europe, Korea
Reporter: Sophie Downes

Joining ICMA are Banque Nomura France, Wells Fargo Securities Europe, Wells Fargo Securities International and the Korea Exchange