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Citi settles first trades on HKEX’s Synapse
10 October 2023 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Citi Securities Services has settled trades for China Asset Management on Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s Synapse platform

Pirum trials DLT extension of post-trade solution
09 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The firm says the extension provides clients with an 'immutable, transparent and distributable' golden-record of their trades for reference, audit and other purposes

Bank of England announces plan for Money Markets Code review
09 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The BoE has outlined an action plan for the review of the UK Money Market Code, which is due in April 2024, and it will be working with the London Money Markets Association on steps to improve settlement efficiency in UK repo markets

Trading Apps executes first trade on TA.Link
09 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

TA.Link is an alternative way to communicate trading activity between securities finance participants

eSecLending hires Reeder
06 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Ben Reeder joins the firm from EquiLend and will serve as vice president of trading

Philippine Stock Exchange confirms short selling guidelines
06 October 2023 Philippines
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The news follows regulatory approval regarding critical components of securities borrowing and lending — short selling can only function if a securities borrowing and lending programme is in place

BrokerTec provides repo trading as a spread to €STR
06 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The electronic trading platform and technology services provider says the new functionality offers further flexibility to clients, with efficient hedging for term repo trading

ESMA calls for evidence on shortening settlement cycle
06 October 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The move aims to help ESMA assess the costs and benefits of a possible reduction of the settlement cycle in the European Union to T+1

Repo ADV up 38.9% YoY for September, says Tradeweb
05 October 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Repo average daily volume traded on the Tradeweb platform increased 38.9 per cent year-over-year to US$529.6 billion for September 2023

GCEX appoints Nabi as strategic business development consultant
05 October 2023 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based in the UK, Nabi will be responsible for driving growth from institutional and professional clients

MarketAxess appoints Pavan
05 October 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Neelan Pavan, former product manager at Pirum Systems, joins MarketAxess as technical product manager for its post-trade product team

HKEX launches settlement acceleration platform
04 October 2023 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Designed to create improved efficiency and transparency for the market, Synapse is the latest enhancement to Stock Connect — a mutual market access programme that connects Mainland Chinese markets with those in Hong Kong