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Scotiabank welcomes Triadu as head of collateral management and funding
08 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Amandine Triadu, former EMEA head of repo trading at Mizuho, joins the Canadian bank as director, head of collateral management and funding for Europe and Asia

BNY Mellon appoints Meaden
07 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Ben Meaden, former head of securities finance at Aviva Investors, has joined BNY Mellon as director of securities finance

State Street hires Allen
07 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Nancy Allen has moved to State Street’s London office, where she takes on the role of assistant vice president for the EMEA financing solutions business development team

BNY Mellon employs Baton Core-Collateral in its collateral optimisation platform
07 December 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Collaboration will provide access to Baton System’s global CCP network alongside BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Continuous Portfolio Optimisation service to improve collateral velocity and reduce funding costs

Global securities finance revenues rise 13% YoY for November
06 December 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

S&P Global Market Intelligence reports that global securities finance revenues have increased 13 per cent year-on-year to US$1.005 billion

Acadia launches data analytics platform
06 December 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Data Exploration suite aims to help clients identify operational inefficiencies and heighten client margining processes, in addition to providing real-time data for collateral, margin and risk mitigation

Mirae Asset Securities appointed clearing broker for Cboe’s trading platform
06 December 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The New York-based institutional capital markets platform will ensure anonymity on Cboe’s US treasuries trading platform, with all trades facing Mirae and settling against the FICC

LSF funding facility aims to bring developed repo market to Africa
06 December 2022 Africa
Reporter: Bob Currie

This service aims to enhance the liquidity of a basket of sovereign eurobonds, with issuers including Angola, Egypt and Kenya, and to encourage investments related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Global securities finance industry generates US$811 million for November, says DataLend
05 December 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The global securities finance industry generated US$811 million in revenue for lenders in November 2022, a 3 per cent year-over-year increase from November 2021

Women in Securities Finance ring Toronto Stock Exchange opening bell
05 December 2022 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Women in Securities Finance have rung the Toronto Stock Exchange opening bell, one of many events celebrating the organisation’s five-year anniversary

APAC attains US$310.9 billion in outstanding repo value, says ICMA
05 December 2022 Asia-Pacific
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The survey, covering the Asia-Pacific non-Japan region, reveals a 48.3 per cent YoY rise in average daily turnover for repo transactions to US$43 billion, with intra-regional activity rising at the expense of trading with non-APAC counterparties

HQLA^X and Fnality deliver cross-blockchain repo swap pilot
05 December 2022 London, Luxembourg
Reporter: Bob Currie

The PoC was conducted with Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and UBS as project participants and delivered by linking HQLA^X with the Ecosystem TestNet environment, used to simulate the Fnality Payment System