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Pirum hires Messina to North American team
25 July 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Gary Messina, former EquiLend vice president in client relationship management, joins Pirum as associate director of sales origination

Credit Suisse fined £87 million for Archegos failings
25 July 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Prudential Regulation Authority has imposed a fine of £87 million on Credit Suisse for risk management failures relating to its dealings with Archegos Capital Management, the limited partnership family office that collapsed in March 2021

AccessFintech appoints Daur as global head
24 July 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Christopher Daur, former Goldman Sachs veteran, joins AccessFintech as global head of buy-side sales and relationships

FCA to offer Digital Sandbox on permanent basis
21 July 2023 UK
Reporter: SFT

The UK regulator will extend access to the scheme to a wider range of start-ups and allow data providers to list their data on the platform, extending access to over 200 synthetic, public or anonymised data sets

RMA to merge with the Bank Administration Institute
20 July 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The merger will see BAI CEO Debbie Bianucci become CEO of the new association, while RMA CEO Nancy Foster transitions to an advisory role in 2024

ESMA proposes changes to CCP anti-procyclicality requirements
20 July 2023 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

These recommendations aim to contain the impact of large margin changes on clearing participants and their clients, and to prevent contagion of liquidity stresses to other parts of the financial ecosystem

HSBC executes first international SLB transaction on DFM
20 July 2023 Dubai
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The milestone marks the latest step in the continued evolution and expansion of Dubai’s capital markets, according to the Dubai Financial Market

Núñez joins DTCC as chief information security officer
19 July 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

Post-trade market infrastructure specialist DTCC has appointed Yonesy Núñez to lead its information security and technology risk management

RISCMTP-Notes could play key role in promoting sustainable securities lending, says Global PSSL
19 July 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending indicated that RISCMTP-Notes could play a ‘positive role’ in delivering strong sustainability outcomes in securities and collateral transactions

Pirum collaborates with Kingfield to automate income claims
19 July 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The connectivity created by the two firms aims to increase straight-through processing, enabling counterparties to remit claims on pay date and reduce capital requirements

ISLA and PASLA release overview of Asian addendums and annexes
19 July 2023 Asia Pacific
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The document includes summaries of the Korean Broker annex, Korean Securities Depository (KSD) annex, Malaysia addendum and Taiwan addendum, extending their legal opinions covering use of the GMSLA to 64 jurisdictions

Wematch.live launches Data & Analytics Tool
18 July 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The fintech firm says the release is designed to enhance securities financing through improved market transparency and standardisation