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BNY Mellon selects Eurex Clearing for first centrally-cleared repo trades in Europe
19 September 2023 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The move is a milestone for Eurex’s cleared repo market, which welcomes BNY Mellon as a member of Eurex Repo and Eurex Clearing

Tradeweb welcomes JSCC clearing for Yen swap transactions
19 September 2023 Japan
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Clients will now be able to benefit from fully automated workflows on Tradeweb’s multilateral trading facilities and swap execution facilities from pre-trade credit checks to execution and clearing

Transformation of digital assets will likely slow, if fragmented standards are not addressed, says DTCC, Clearstream and Euroclear
18 September 2023 United States
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The companies have called for “increased collaboration to progress an ecosystem that currently includes fragmented standards, varying regulatory treatment, limited integrations with institutional-grade payment rails, and siloed liquidity"

Hidden Road joins Komainu Connect collateral management platform
15 September 2023 Jersey
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Komainu Connect removes the need to store collateral with trading and liquidity counterparties, reducing client counterparty risk and ensuring that assets are kept in secure and regulated custody

Clearstream GSF volumes outstanding increase 12% YoY for August
15 September 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Jamie Richards

Clearstream’s global securities financing business recorded a 6 per cent YoY increase in volumes outstanding to €686.4 billion for August, according to recent monthly figures

Gow swaps SGCIB for DC1
14 September 2023 US
Reporter: Jamie Richards

Data Company 1 has welcomed William Gow to its business development team

Pirum and FIS offer recall interoperability
14 September 2023 UK
Reporter: Jamie Richards

The London-based firm aims to implement connectivity and interoperability to automate recalls and callback messages

EquiLend commences with 1Source testing
14 September 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The EquiLend 1Source ledger will retain a central record of the agreements made between counterparties in a securities lending transaction and is set to go live across the market in 2024

Impact of the SEC’s Treasury Clearing proposal could be “significant,” finds DTCC
13 September 2023 United States
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The proposal would require a significantly larger portion of the U.S. Treasury cash and repo markets to be centrally cleared through an SEC-registered central counterparty

Swift moves to beta testing phase of its CBDC interoperability solution
13 September 2023 Belgium
Reporter: Bob Currie

Its central bank digital currency connector is designed to ensure that CBDCs can coexist with each other and with established fiat currency payments infrastructure, says the Brussels-based organisation

BBH reshapes securities lending team with Sarah Holmes becoming global head
12 September 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

In a review of its senior lending team, BBH has promoted Holmes to global head of securities lending, Tom Poppey moves to head of securities lending product strategy and Robert Lees remains as global head of securities lending trading

CME Group and DTCC receive regulatory approval for enhanced treasury cross-margining arrangement
12 September 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The arrangement will enable capital efficiencies for clearing members that trade and clear both US Treasury securities and CME Group Interest Rate futures