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Standard Chartered appoints Ross as global head
26 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Winnie Lee

Andy Ross has been appointed as global head of prime and financing, financing and securities services at Standard Chartered, and will serve as financial markets head in the UK

KemperLesnik appoints Prosperi as executive vice president and managing director
26 July 2022 US
Reporter: Holly Shelton

David Prosperi takes over from Amy Littleton as executive vice president and managing director of KemperLesnik

Tradeteq to launch TRADA Tokens on XDC Network
26 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Tradeteq aims to deliver significant liquidity to the trade finance sector by securitising a traditionally illiquid asset class on the XDC Network — a public decentralised blockchain

J.P. Morgan appoints Herlihy to lead new global trading services sales team
26 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Holly Shelton

J.P. Morgan has announced the formation of a new global trading services sales team, which is to be led by Eileen Herlihy

SEC beefs up crypto enforcement unit, charges insider traders
25 July 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

US regulator expands its crypto asset supervisory and enforcement capability, while tightening its focus on errant gatekeepers and filing charges against three persons for alleged insider trading

Martin Tell joins Gemini
21 July 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Martin Tell, former global head of securities finance at State Street, has transitioned to Gemini, where he will serve as vice president of finance

Dimmick leaves J.P. Morgan
21 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Chris Dimmick has departed from J.P. Morgan after three stints at the firm's London office lasting a total of 13 years

Mirae Asset Securities hires Sackett to lead prime brokerage
20 July 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Robert Sackett has been appointed head of prime brokerage at Mirae Asset Securities, where he will promote the firm’s service capabilities, including US and global custody and clearing, global securities lending and repo

EquiLend to release Swaptimization TRS platform in EU
20 July 2022 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

The company reports it is in the final stages of securing OTF approval from the Central Bank of Ireland prior to releasing an enhanced Swaptimization service to EU clients

EXCLUSIVE: BMO joins GPFA and raises total assets to $10tn
20 July 2022 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Global Peer Financing Association has announced BMO Wealth Management Canada as its 26th asset owner member

BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs settle agency lending transactions on HQLA^x
20 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The two firms have announced the completion of the first agency securities lending transactions using the HQLA^x distributed ledger technology platform

MUFG welcomes Dean to securities lending team
19 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Joanne Dean will join Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s global securities lending solutions team as cash and controls manager